1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.


2/ California used to do big things. From rockets in the Mojave to chips in Silicon Valley, California dreamed. California designed. California built.

But then we stopped. To lead again, we need a place that can capture the imagination of the nation. Solano can be that place.

1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.”

Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵 2/ Silicon Valley made its name in hardware. HP, Intel, Lockheed, and other pioneers didn’t split their R&D and factory floors. Engineers and tradesmen worked side by side. In 1965, Lockheed alone employed 28,000 people in Sunnyvale. 28,000 people!

1/ America cannot compete with China without building America's Shenzen – a place to build drones, ships, robots, and everything else cutting edge.

Where? On @CAForever's 100 square miles in Solano, 60 miles north of SF/Silicon Valley, where we invent that stuff. Here's why. 🧵 2/ Because it's obviously the right spot.

If we didn't gut the country with free-trade policies, and if California didn't commit manufacturing suicide with bad regulations, Silicon Valley would have obviously built its manufacturing engine immediately next to it.

1/ @CAForever is answering the call to propel American shipbuilding for the next century. With today’s @POTUS Executive Order and the bipartisan SHIPS Act, we’re offering 3 miles of our waterfront to build the Solano Shipyard, the largest shipbuilding complex in America. 🧵
2/ Last year, one Chinese shipyard built more ships than every American shipyard – combined – since WW2. You read that correctly – one shipyard! We’re desperately behind. Catching up is only possible if we combine modern manufacturing with production that matches China's scale.