Can California Ever Build Again? - EP 34 Jan Sramek

Core Memory · Sep 17, 2025 · 1h 42m · transcript

This week, we bring you the story of California Forever in all its “never told before” glory.

For the past eight years, Jan Sramek and a group of wealthy investors have been buying up land in Solano County with the hopes of creating a great new city in Northern California. All told, the California Forever group has spent $1 billion to acquire 68,000 acres (100 square miles) in an area about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento. Their goal is to create a community of 400,000 people who can live and work together and to make it possible for California to manufacture more of the things…