Suspicion grips rural enclave over plans to build 'America's most beautiful new town' By Bethan Sexton For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:44, 27 October 2024 | Updated: 11:44, 27 October 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Wealthy investors are seeking to build an idyllic new town for 'high agency individuals' in California wine country. Proposals for Esmeralda, which will be located 90 minutes north of San Francisco in Sonoma, state the community will become 'America's most beautiful new town'.
But not everyone is happy with the tech-fueled vision of utopia put forth by founder Devon Zuegel. Locals have expressed concerns that the town will be a 'crypto and AI powered village full of venture capitalists'. However Zuegel and her team insist the community will not just be an exclusive enclave for elites and instead aims to have a college campus feel where residents can 'run into friends just walking'.
Wealthy Californian investors are pooling their money to create a new town called Esmeralda, pictured here in this rendering Modeled on 'an Italian hill town', locals can enjoy a place where 'group dinners, creative projects, book clubs, and pickup sports happen spontaneously,' according to Esmeralda's website. 'It would be great to be a parent there, too. Instead of being a chauffeur for your kids, you could give them more freedom and just tell them to be back by dark,' the description states.
While it may sound like a distant dream, Esmeralda is inching ever closer to becoming a reality a.