A Bay Space man who advises a “brain emulation” non-profit has revealed a proposal for the federal authorities to take again a big swath of the previous Alameda naval air station for a technology-focused, unbiased utopian mini-city.
It was not instantly clear whether or not the purported “Frontier Valley” venture — described on its web site as “a proposed development pending federal approval” — had monetary backing or the help of anybody beside its proponent, James Ingallinera, the previous CEO of two Bay Space expertise housing-rental startups aimed toward tech staff.
Metropolis officers in Alameda, which owns practically all the previous air base by transfers from the U.S. Navy, weren’t happy with the purported plan for Frontier Valley, whose web site exhibits it might embody city-owned Alameda Level.
“Since the closure of Naval Air Station Alameda, the City of Alameda has been successfully and collaboratively developing Alameda Point into a vibrant community of commercial, industrial, and residential uses, including many high-tech and bio-tech uses,” Alameda spokeswoman Sarah Henry mentioned Monday.
Ingallinera on Sunday introduced the plan to create “The New Silicon Valley” on the shuttered air base. He recognized himself as Frontier Valley’s founder.
“America, it’s time to wake up and fight,” Ingallinera mentioned in a video posted to social media platform X, citing the necessity for the U.S. to steer on synthetic intelligence and different superior expertise. If the U.S. falls behind, Ingallinera argued, “China will crush us and that will be the end of America as the world’s greatest superpower.”
Ingallinera urged President Donald Trump to situation an govt order re-taking property for the venture, by declaring a “national security emergency” over America’s expertise management.
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to questions concerning the proposal. Frontier Valley didn’t instantly reply to questions on whether or not it had monetary backing, and who beside Ingallinera is perhaps main the purported venture.
The Metropolis of Alameda’s Henry mentioned, “No reasonable fact supports the proposed declaration of emergency at Alameda Point.” Nobody from Frontier Valley had contacted the town by Monday afternoon, Henry mentioned.
The town is working with the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs to develop a Congressionally licensed VA medical facility at Alameda Level, and likewise collaborating with the East Bay Regional Park District to develop a 158-acre park beside that facility, Henry mentioned.
Ingallinera is listed as an adviser to Carboncopies, a San Francisco non-profit devoted to replicating the human mind in software program to free individuals from “physical constraints of a body.”
Final July, on the day a would-be murderer wounded Trump, Ingallinera mentioned on X that he would vote for Trump in November and “voice my support publicly and unabashedly, social and financial consequences be damned.”
Trump in 2023 known as for a contest to create 10 “freedom cities” on federal land to spice up Individuals’ way of life.
On the video, Ingallinera mentioned the 500-acre Frontier Valley web site could be “totally secure” with “personnel screening” on the “perimeter,” together with “completely independent governance.”
Renderings on the Frontier Valley web site present futuristic scenes of flying automobiles whizzing round skyscrapers, and folks mingling with robots.
“We will have total independence from the surrounding Bay Area and the State of California,” Ingallinera mentioned. “Our zone will be led by America’s most bad-ass, deep-tech founders, who also crucially embody pro-human, pro-freedom ideas.”
The event would operate as a template for “cities of the future,” which might be “nearly fully automated, AI- and robotics-driven cities,” Ingallinera mentioned.
Three-quarters of the property would host industrial and industrial enterprises — with lots of of startups and bigger organizations — and far of the remainder would go towards housing for as much as 10,000 individuals, Ingallinera mentioned. Additionally within the plan are a “downtown strip” and 60-acre waterfront park, Ingallinera mentioned.
He and Frontier Valley’s web site promised a concentrate on new pc chips, power sources, robots, drones, army expertise, quantum computing and biotechnology.
Ingallinera within the video attacked what he known as a “totally bogus determination” that the event space gives necessary nesting habitat for the endangered California least tern, a waterbird.
The claimed venture echoes the proposed utopian “California Forever” plan to construct a metropolis from scratch in Solano County. Its proponents backed off from the plan within the face of widespread native opposition, however have pivoted to selling a shipyard-focused venture.
“If the plan gains traction, it could become a precedent for companies writing their own rules on public land, testing courts, Congress, and California’s ability to stop it,” Duran wrote Sunday on his weblog.
Initially Printed: June 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM PDT
