īy 1993, Coronado City required more terrain than what the geology of the bay had. In order to erase the stigma of the Morro Bay Massacre, the partnership renamed the land Del Coronado Bay, to make way for their new project of Coronado City. Further funds came from external investors lured to the project by the promise of lucrative building contracts and possible sources of extralegal income. īankrolled by Merrill, Asukaga, & Finch, Night and Petrochem hired the Arasaka Corporation to remove the boostergangs and make the area a safe zone for construction. A leveraged 132 million dollar purchase secured the remaining parcels. Aided by Petrochem, who had taken over the then-abandoned Dynergy power plant in the town and was already planning to set up an offshore port and oil terminal site.
Night purchased the land where a ghost town now stood and began preparations. Richard Night sent scouting teams to the East and West Coasts of the United States, but it was a small article in the San Francisco Chronicle that caught his eye - the article described an incident of a post-holocaust horror that had taken place in a small town called Morro Bay, along the Central Californian coast. By 1992, Arasaka, EBM and Petrochem had all signed on with the project. Night's dream city was tailor-made for their purposes and so he provided the design and construction capacities. A place where governments would be corporate-run, allowing optimum zoning and no anti-business elements to interfere with corporate growth.
With the Collapse, many corporations had been looking to establish their own urban areas - controlled zones free of crime, poverty or debt. Night secured an unheard amount of capital needed to finance the project. It was ambitious, far-reaching, and visionary in its approach. It would boast planned neighborhoods dedicated to preserving the feel of different types of nationalities and cultures, as well as an ultra-modern corporate center that would stand as a shining beacon of enlightened capitalism. His new city was to be completely planned, self-sufficient, and capable of holding off even the most determined criminals. He then founded a side company known as Night International, and began to plan an ideal new city - an environment that would be controlled and ultimately safe from the ravages currently tearing the world apart. Richard Night, a successful businessman who, during the 1990s, was concerned by the violence and disruption of the impending Collapse, came up with the idea of a utopia safe from crime.