The Belmont Smart City will create a pioneer-thinking community and state-of-the-art infrastructure.
Belmont Partners, the investment firm founded by Bill Gates, has just purchased a 25,000-acre property. Located 72km west of Phoenix, this area is in the heart of the Arizona desert to build a smart city called Belmont .
Occupying most of the area will be 80,000 residential areas.
“The Belmont Smart City will create a pioneer-thinking community with modern infrastructure at the heart of it. It will feature high-speed Internet access, data centers, autonomous vehicles, and hubs.” automated logistics, production technologies and new distribution models” . The city of Belmont is described in a press release by real estate investment firm Belmont Partners.
According to Belmont Partners, the community will transform from a raw, empty city into a city with a flexible and advanced infrastructure model.
To keep the environment clean, the city’s public trash cans are fitted with sensors. They are responsible for broadcasting a notification when the garbage is full. Residents here can open office doors and turn on computers before even arriving at work. They can also use cell phones to get directions and parking availability.
Smart City is located 72km west of Phoenix city.
It is known that there will be about 15% of the city area for commercial areas, offices, and retail stores; 2% of the area will be devoted to schools. Occupying most of the area will be 80,000 residential areas combined with airy green campus, home to an estimated 182,000 people.
Billionaire Gates’ Belmont will follow in the footsteps of a similar metropolis built in Columbus, Ohio. However, the specific time when Belmont will be built has yet to be announced.