A first glance at the Mojave Region
History
In the year of 2018 a new development company was formed, owned by a group consisting of all Fortune 500 companies, the Mojave Development Corp. The plan was to build an experimental mega-city from the ground up. No congestion, no overpopulation, nu slums. Four 8-lane freeways were to connect the suburbs to the CBD, with a perimeter ring road surrounding the city. The huge flat area between Lancaster and Victorville just north of LA was choosen for the project When the CEO's of the worlds largest corporations design the city in which they plan to relocate their headquarters, they tend to design it for themselves, which is why an artifical river and lake was created, effectively creating an isolated island to the east of the CBD. By January 2025 the CBD was almost finalized according to the original city plan. Offices and retail facilities for 200 000 employees had been built and thousands of homes in the surrounding areas went on sale every day. In March of the same year Mojave Development Corp. became the first company to officialy open their HQ in the city, moving 10 500 employees. Towards the end of the year 80% of all office space in the CBD was occupied and rent began booming. By December 31th the city had reached a population of 348 000 people and both home and office rent prices were rising by the dubbel digits every month. The WSJ ran an article predicting the total collapse of the project, which helped cool down the growth, but couldn't stop it.
The higher than expected growth of financial institutions and business headquarters locating in the city lead to a premature enactment of stage two: new boomtowns outside the perimiter freeway. At the same time investors outside the Mojave Development Corp began constructing skyscrapers in the CBD, leading to chronic congestion of the CBD-bound freeways.
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