How the Marin Headlands Almost Became a Commuter Town
The story of Marincello
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5 min readDec 13, 2018
In the 1960s, when the suburbs were taking over America, a keen real estate developer from Pittsburgh, Thomas Frouge, dreamed about building a city on top of the Marin Headlands—Marincello.
His vision: a city rising from the slopes of the Tennessee Valley, where residents could gaze across the shimmering…
