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> You can buy vast tracts land for pennies and...

That sounds remarkably like the just-revealed "Flannery Associates plan" - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-s... .

And still, even with ~50,000 acres and a bunch of billionaires behind them, the media coverage seems to agree that they'll be fighting against regulations and red tape and NIMBYs for years, to actually build anything useful. With success far from assured.



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