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Sramek: Restrictive housing in major metros depresses US GDP by 14%
“Where they argued quite convincingly that if we built enough housing in the Bay, in New York, and a couple of other places, American GDP would be higher by 14% or more.”
Sramek: California Forever city is designed for up to 400,000 residents
“And then imagine that it was a city for up to 400,000 people that was entitled and approved at once, and so you knew that for the next you knew that for the next 30 years, if this office is going to work and you'll be able to hire talent there, there'll be eno…”
Sramek: California Forever homes will cost $1M vs $4-5M in Palo Alto
“And then imagine that instead of paying four or five million dollars for a mediocre home in Palo Alto or San Francisco, your employees would be able to buy a nice house for a million dollars.”
Sramek: California Forever targets breaking ground in Solano County by 2027
“Our target is to break ground in twenty-twenty-seven. That is ambitious by California standards. A couple of things have to happen for that to be the case. But we're pretty optimistic that we would be able to do that.”
Sramek: California Forever purchased 60,000 acres in Solano County
“And we've purchased about 60,000 acres in that area.”
Sramek: Bay Area-level innovation clusters have occurred only seven times in history
“I think what's happened in the Bay Area has happened maybe seven times in the history of the modern world, at least in the West. I think it happened in Florence, and Paris, and London, and New York, and Chicago, and maybe LA, and then it happened in the Bay Ar…”
Sramek: Solano County can become defense innovation foundry for 50 years
“We think that Solano County can become the foundry of American defense innovation for the next 50 years”
Sramek: Net domestic migration out of California has been negative for a decade
“And in, for the last 10 years, people have been moving out of California. More Americans move out of California every year. Then move in.”
Sramek: Solano County lacks major private sector employers
“There's no major private sector employers in the county, and so way too many of the residents commute an hour and a half, two hours every day for work, which means they never see their kids, and we can bring that economic engine.”