Space Daily September 13, 2026 • 15:15

Developers planned a city of 30,000 people in the hills directly across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, with 50 apartment towers, hundreds of homes, a shopping mall and a luxury hotel — the project collapsed in court, and its planned main boulevard is n - spacedaily.com

Developers planned a city of 30,000 people in the hills directly across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, with 50 apartment towers, hundreds of homes, a shopping mall and a luxury hotel — the project collapsed in court, and its planned main boulevard is n - spacedaily.com

A visionary developer's plan to build a gleaming metropolis across from San Francisco seemed unstoppable—until grassroots activists turned it into a ghost town that never was.

Two Spanish-tiled stucco gateposts once stood at the mouth of Tennessee Valley in Marin County, opening onto nothing at all.
Behind them a road climbed into the hills and stopped. It had been bulldo… [+4563 chars]

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