A Bay Area man who advises a “brain emulation” non-profit has revealed a proposal for the federal government to take back a large swath of the former Alameda naval air station for a technology-focused, independent utopian mini-city.
It was not immediately clear whether the purported “Frontier Valley” project — described on its website as “a proposed development pending federal approval” — had financial backing or the support of anyone beside its proponent, James Ingallinera, the former CEO of two Bay Area technology housing-rental startups aimed at tech workers.
City officials in Alameda, which owns nearly all the former air base through transfers from the U.S. Navy, were not pleased with the purported plan for Frontier Valley, whose website shows it would include city-owned Alameda Point.
“Since the closure of Naval Air Station Alameda, the City of Alameda has been successfully and collaboratively developing Alameda Point into a vibrant community of commercial, industrial, and residential uses, including many high-tech and bio-tech uses,” Alameda spokeswoman Sarah Henry said Monday.
Ingallinera on Sunday announced the plan to create “The New Silicon Valley” at the shuttered air base. He identified himself as Frontier Valley’s founder.
“America, it’s time to wake up and fight,” Ingallinera said in a video posted to social media platform X, citing the need for the U.S. to lead on artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. If the U.S. falls behind, Ingallinera argued, “China will crush us and that will be the end of America as the world’s greatest superpower.”
Ingallinera urged President Donald Trump to issue an executive order re-taking property for the project, by declaring a “national security emergency” over America’s technology leadership.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the proposal. Frontier Valley did not immediately respond to questions about whether it had financial backing, and who beside Ingallinera might be leading the purported project.
The City of Alameda’s Henry said, “No reasonable fact supports the proposed declaration of emergency at Alameda Point.” No one from Frontier Valley had contacted the city by Monday afternoon, Henry said.
The city is working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a Congressionally authorized VA medical facility at Alameda Point, and also collaborating with the East Bay Regional Park District to develop a 158-acre park beside that facility, Henry said.
Ingallinera is listed as an adviser to Carboncopies, a San Francisco non-profit dedicated to replicating the human brain in software to free people from “physical constraints of a body.”
Last July, on the day a would-be assassin wounded Trump, Ingallinera said on X that he would vote for Trump in November and “voice my support publicly and unabashedly, social and financial consequences be damned.”
On the video, Ingallinera said the 500-acre Frontier Valley site would be “totally secure” with “personnel screening” at the “perimeter,” along with “completely independent governance.”
Renderings on the Frontier Valley website show futuristic scenes of flying vehicles whizzing around skyscrapers, and people mingling with robots.
“We will have total independence from the surrounding Bay Area and the State of California,” Ingallinera said. “Our zone will be led by America’s most bad-ass, deep-tech founders, who also crucially embody pro-human, pro-freedom ideas.”
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Three-quarters of the property would host commercial and industrial enterprises — with hundreds of startups and larger organizations — and much of the rest would go toward housing for up to 10,000 people, Ingallinera said. Also in the plan are a “downtown strip” and 60-acre waterfront park, Ingallinera said.
He and Frontier Valley’s website promised a focus on new computer chips, energy sources, robots, drones, military technology, quantum computing and biotechnology.
Ingallinera in the video attacked what he called a “totally bogus determination” that the development area provides important nesting habitat for the endangered California least tern, a waterbird.
The claimed project echoes the proposed utopian “California Forever” plan to build a city from scratch in Solano County. Its proponents backed off from the plan in the face of widespread local opposition, but have pivoted to promoting a shipyard-focused project.
Both Frontier Valley — whose website calls for creation of “self-replicating, sovereign zones” — and California Forever fit the model of the “network state” espoused by certain libertarian-minded technology figures seeking to build micro-nations, said Bay Area journalist Gil Duran, former press secretary to California Gov. Jerry Brown and a former Mercury News reporter, who researches such plans.
“If the plan gains traction, it could become a precedent for companies writing their own rules on public land, testing courts, Congress, and California’s ability to stop it,” Duran wrote Sunday on his blog.
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