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Would you live in Bill Gates’ new city?

Just outside Phoenix, Gates is building a smart city from scratch

(Credit: front, Ken Shipp/DOE Photo; back, Wing-Chi Poon)
(Credit: front, Ken Shipp/DOE Photo; back, Wing-Chi Poon)

Bill Gates’ real estate investment group, Belmont Partners, shelled out $80 million for 25,000 acres of land to construct a city with technology built into its foundations.

The site is located about 45 minutes outside of Phoenix and is being called Belmont for now, according to The Architect’s Newspaper.

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“Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology,” a company representative told the Newspaper. Those technologies range from high-speed networks to driverless cars and new manufacturing and distribution systems.

Though no construction plans or timeline for the development are publicly known, the firm’s land-use plans were partly revealed: 80,000 residences are slated to be built on the majority of the land with almost 4,000 acres devoted to commercial developments while about 500 acres are set aside for schools.

[The Architect’s Newspaper] — E.K. Hudson

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