Belmont Partners, an investment firm run by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has bought 25,000 acres in Arizona to create a planned community reports KPNX. The large plot of land was bought for $80 million and is 45 minutes from Phoenix, within Maricopa County, in an area called the West Valley.
Plans for the new city, which will be appropriately named Belmont, include 80,000 residential units, 3,800 acres for office, commercial and retail space and 470 acres for public schools. According to a press release put out by the firm, they plan to build "a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs."
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Once Gates figures out how to AC the outdoors this place could be acceptable.
Who needs a/c when he has all the Windows anyone could ever use?
Dos opening Windows work in such a climate? Basic knowledge says no.
You try to open windows when it's too hot and you risk a BSOD.
Sad when one of the richest people in the world decides to build on cheap virgin land instead of redeveloping a site within an existing city.
As was pointed out on my tweet of this story, maybe everyone there will be vapor harvesters, like in Star Wars? Because otherwise there's not enough water to support 80,000 people out there.
Couldn't be worse than arcosanti... that place looks like it's straight out of Tatooine...
Biggest problem I have with the Phoenix valley is all the damn grass... seriously people... it's the desert.
why are people commenting on a 3 year old news item?
because we're all a bunch of Unix.
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