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The Doclopedia #3,424
More Game Changers: Pyramid City
Let’s face it, you can’t build a mile high pyramid that has a base measuring just over a mile on a side without changing the game. Those two 3,000 foot tall towers inside it? Game changers. Making the entire place fully self contained as far as water, power, and a services go? Game changer! Just ask the 250,000 people living there.
Pyramid City was the brainchild of Parisa Brenner and her company, New Think Inc. Having built Train City, Texas and the underground city of Spoonly, North Dakota, among others, they decided to build a huge arcology in the desert of central Nevada.
First, they bought a 3 square mile plot of land north of Interstate 50 not far from the small town of Austin. They then began bringing in building materials via trucks and airships. Next came a temporary town for the 4,000 workers who would build the 1.10 mile long and 100 foot tall,100 foot thick walls of the base.
Building the base took 26 months. While that was going on, materials for building the two towers were piling up in the center. Not far from the building site, enormous numbers of huge glass panes and steel and aluminum frames were piling up.
Building of the towers, which made great use of the fact that said towers would be totally protected from the weather in all it’s forms, started at the halfway point of base construction. The glass walls started going up soon after, and they went up fast because each level of them was smaller than the previous one.
While all of that was going on, tunneling machines were creating tunnels for a light rail line to I-50, underground areas were being outfitted to handle the utilities for the city, nature areas were being created out on the outer edges of the city limits, and a vigorous recruitment plan for inhabitants was going on.
Five years after construction started, Pyramid City was opened up for inhabitation. Since the headquarters for New Think Inc was moving here, the first 2,500 people and their families were NTI employees. Next came the 3,000 service workers who would keep the
place running. After that were business owners, retired NTI employees, and finally the teachers, doctors, and other professionals. Later, many other people came to work and live there.
Now, 25 years later, NTI has expanded the area around the city to include a camping area, a first class zoo and aquarium under three large domes, a concert venue, a motion picture and television studio, and several underground warehouses for the international airship port. Two million visitors a year pass through the city.
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