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Frontier Valley Tech Enclave Proposal Faces Alameda Pushback

Alameda officials say there is no basis for declaring a national security emergency at the former naval air station.

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A woman runs along bay trail at the former naval station at Alameda Point in 2022. An entrepreneur is pushing a plan to turn the area into “Silicon Valley 2.0.”
An aerial view of Alameda Point and the San Francisco Bay ferry dock in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
The former naval station at Alameda Point is starting to be developed, but a tech entrepreneur wants to upend that plan with his own for a tech enclave on the Alameda waterfront.

Overview

  • James Ingallinera outlined plans to convert 512 acres of the former naval air station into Frontier Valley, a deregulated tech enclave on the Alameda waterfront.
  • The proposal depends on President Trump issuing an executive order to seize the land under a national security emergency for U.S. technology supremacy.
  • Frontier Valley embodies the Freedom Cities model by combining dense housing for 10,000 people with commercial and industrial labs for AI, robotics, drones, rockets, and biotech ventures.
  • Alameda has had no contact from Ingallinera or his team and is proceeding with a congressionally approved VA medical campus and a 158-acre regional park at Alameda Point.
  • The White House has not weighed in on the project and details on Frontier Valley’s financing or backers remain unverified.