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Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city

Marc Andreessen's family is planning to build a large housing development near the proposed California Forever city.

Investors in this land include Andreessen, as well as Mike Moritz, Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs, who have collectively sunk nearly $1 billion in pursuit of one goal: to build a new utopian city free of the ills that plague places like San Francisco, according to the New York Times. While it is still very early in the process, A&P has shown city officials a rough outline of a master-planned community that includes duplexes, townhomes and micro-lot single-family detached homes “along a spectrum of affordability.” These will all “fit seamlessly into existing residential neighborhoods to the north and south of the project and support walkability,” the group wrote in April. But Arrillaga Sr., a Stanford University graduate, saw the burgeoning semiconductor industry and made a prescient bet: He teamed up with Peery to buy up thousands of acres of cheap land and immediately erected a series of empty concrete office buildings.

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