The $1B City Where Humans Are Banned

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First there was a fake town for testing self driving cars, now there is this billion dollar town that humans are banned from living in. Technology hates homeless people. ;)

Planned for a population of 35,000, the city will showcase a modern business district downtown, and neat rows of terraced housing in the suburbs. It will be supplied with pristine streets, parks, malls and a church. But no one will ever call it home.
 
hmmmm ship our cities homeless there... like the old days when the west opened up... they can homestead the houses...
 
Hmm, not a bad idea. It's like a Urban Planning acceptance environment :p
 
"Homes could be designed to survive natural disasters,"

What natural disasters take place in the New Mexico desert? Or am I missing something? Roaming plagues of feral jackolopes?
 
"Homes could be designed to survive natural disasters,"

What natural disasters take place in the New Mexico desert? Or am I missing something? Roaming plagues of feral jackolopes?

Or maybe they are actually going to be testing machines that can make natural disasters occur
 
"Homes could be designed to survive natural disasters,"

What natural disasters take place in the New Mexico desert? Or am I missing something? Roaming plagues of feral jackolopes?

UFOs!
 
Or maybe they are actually going to be testing machines that can make natural disasters occur

For perspective...here's how the "BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME" ideology is working for "Spaceport America" built in one of the poorest towns in New Mexico and the USA. Well worth the read:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/space-travel-virgingalactic-haunts-new-mexico-town

Think about it...that monstrosity built to lure companies is causing clean water efforts to be defunded. And here they're doing it again, because you know that no company is moronic enough to not get a hefty "investment" from the State or the cities/counties and entirely foot the bill themselves...
 
where we’re told that the trip we’re about to take contains “copyrighted experiences”.
 
Hmmm. What exactly do they want to test here? Some type of classified military-innocent-killing weapon most likely. Also iPhone 7's.
 
The $1 billion scheme, led by telecommunications and tech firm Pegasus Global Holdings AKA Umbrella Corporation...
 
For perspective...here's how the "BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME" ideology is working for "Spaceport America" built in one of the poorest towns in New Mexico and the USA. Well worth the read:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/space-travel-virgingalactic-haunts-new-mexico-town

Think about it...that monstrosity built to lure companies is causing clean water efforts to be defunded. And here they're doing it again, because you know that no company is moronic enough to not get a hefty "investment" from the State or the cities/counties and entirely foot the bill themselves...


This is nothing new. Look up some of the analysis of tax-funded sports stadiums that claim they will revitalize/create business around the stadiums.

The boom never happens: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwau...al-economy-report-says-cc9ehcj-201706591.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/use-of-...sports-arenas-draws-fresh-scrutiny-1425856677
 
This is nothing new. Look up some of the analysis of tax-funded sports stadiums that claim they will revitalize/create business around the stadiums.

The boom never happens: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwau...al-economy-report-says-cc9ehcj-201706591.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/use-of-...sports-arenas-draws-fresh-scrutiny-1425856677

It's the same way for just about every major sporting event from the Olympics to something like the Oracle sailboat races.

The city in question is often left holding a shit ton of debt associated with building it, yeah some businesses have a good sized jump in business for what 2 weeks, but it's not like the city is collecting that much taxes to make up for it. That's why every time I hear about some politicians plan to bring the Olympics here I cringe, because those million of dollars in wooing bribes to the Olympic committee are not coming back to the city ever... and then if it eventually does come, the amount of construction, the amount of traffic mess, and at the end of the day I will not see a dime of any of that.
 
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