Telosa, BIG's new vision for the future, hopes to sprout up from the desert with the help of billionaire Marc Lore

2021-09-01T18:38:00-04:00

Fans of Bjarke Ingels are in for a treat following an announcement on social media earlier today of a massive new project that would build a city completely from scratch somewhere in the western United States thanks to seed funding from billionaire Jet.com founder Marc Lore.

Bloomberg is reporting that the Danish architect has been tapped by the entrepreneur for the master plan of the Telosa city project that will transform 150,000 acres of unoccupied community-owned land into a Shenzhen-like planned metropolis which will eventually play host to over 5 million people by the year 2060.

The plan calls for an initial investment in land which will then be transferred into an endowment owned and operated by the nearly 50,000 people who will inhabit the starter city by the end of this decade.

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The project’s goal is to transform the undeveloped swath of land into a model that “sets a global standard for urban living, expands human potential, and become...

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Telosa, BIG's new vision for the future, hopes to sprout up from the desert with the help of billionaire Marc Lore