California Forever responds to invitations to discuss annexation from Rio Vista and Suisun City – read here
March 28th, 2025
“We believe that when people look back in 2050, they will say that this was one of the most interesting and lasting and impactful partnerships between the government and military and Silicon Valley in the country.” – Jan Sramek, Founder and CEO of California Forever at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit, January 2024, in Washington, DC.
The Golden State has always risen to support America when crisis hits – building what floats and what flies in defense of a great nation. Here in Solano County, we’ve been doing it for more than a century and a half. From Mare Island’s historic shipyard, to Travis Air Force Base, our nation’s Gateway to the Pacific, the people of Solano County have never waited for the call, we’ve always led the way.
Today, we’re writing the next chapter of a powerful story about resilience and peace through strength, and we’re doing so without partisan walls, all driven by community leaders here in Solano. In just one short week, hundreds of local leaders have stepped up to interact with some of America’s brightest retired Admirals and Generals about the next component of this county’s growing national defense cluster – a clean, modern, new shipyard to be located in southeastern Solano County, 2 miles east of Collinsville, just across the water from Pittsburg’s industrial waterfront.
The Bi-Partisan SHIPS for America Act and the President’s formation of the White House Office of Shipbuilding have clearly made restoring America’s naval and commercial shipbuilding a national security imperative. In naval shipbuilding, our nation will increase our production of both surface ships and submarines to support the US Navy. In commercial shipbuilding, both bipartisan Congressional leadership and the President have made it clear that America must restore production of ships that foster the global economy.
While still early in the process, community leaders and industry groups have moved decisively to support this proposal. Building the Solano Shipyard is a generational endeavor that would bring tens of thousands of jobs to not just the waterfront, but to co-located supply chain manufacturing facilities that would likely spring up across Solano’s cities and in the broader region.
As the process unfolds, one thing is certain: the men and women of Solano County won’t just lead the way – we’ll build it.
About the Location
In 1989, Solano County completed the “Collinsville Montezuma Hills Area Development Study,” and identified the southern Montezuma Hills as “the largest vacant site on the West Coast currently approved for heavy industry or marine terminal use, and the only one in California of more than a few hundred acres.” In response, the Solano County Board of Supervisors proactively zoned over 1,400 acres for maritime industrial uses, and reaffirmed this industrial designation in the 2008 General Plan. Today, the site remains available for maritime industrial uses, which would be enhanced and supported by colocation of this project with the new community proposed about 10 miles north of the shipyard site, which could host supply chain facilities, and provide high-quality homes in affordable, safe neighborhoods for the shipyard’s workers.
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