In between plans to build a 400,000-person city and deep-water shipyard in rural Solano County, the team behind the controversial California Forever project has announced a third concept for the area: a 2,100-acre manufacturing plant called “Solano Foundry.”
Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, announced the project in an interview with tech writer and podcaster Ashlee Vance at the Reindustrialize conference Thursday in Detroit, as well as with a tweet in which he declared the return of “designed in California, made in California.”
A newly published website promises that the project will bring manufacturing back to California with a “40 million-square-foot ecosystem for the most innovative industries, including advanced transportation, robotics, energy, and defense.” It claims Solano Foundry would be the largest advanced manufacturing park in the U.S. and bring 40,000 jobs to the region…