[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "A Silicon Valley entrepreneur is circulating plans for a futuristic tech enclave..." at former Alameda Naval Air Station

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This is just the latest in a long line of harebrained proposals to reuse a former military installation. -LS]

Silicon Valley entrepreneur pushes plan for huge tech enclave on Bay Area waterfront

By Rachel Swan
San Francisco Chronicle
June 16, 2025

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur is circulating plans for a futuristic tech enclave in Alameda, on land that is already slated for development.

The pitch for Frontier Valley, a 512-acre waterfront complex that combines dense residential buildings with space to launch drones and rockets, surfaced on social media Sunday and instantly went viral. It confounded officials in Alameda, who said the project’s founder, James Ingallinera, had not contacted them about his proposal.

Cloaked in flashy visuals and brash marketing language, the idea for Frontier Valley still seems inchoate. Ingallinera envisions his development as a special jurisdiction independent from the Bay Area and the state, a form of zoning that would require an emergency declaration from President Trump. Frontier Valley fits the template of a “Freedom City,” or deregulated area meant to serve as a vast open-air laboratory for new technology. Trump has vowed to build 10 of them.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/tech-frontier-valley-alameda-20380069.php

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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