Jonathan F.P. Rose

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Jonathan F.P. Rose
Born1952 (age 65–66)
New Rochelle, New York [1]
Residence Garrison, New York
NationalityUnited States
EducationB.A. Yale University
MRP University of Pennsylvania
OccupationPlanner, Real Estate Developer, Author
Known forFounder and president of Jonathan Rose Companies; Founded Gramavision Records; co-founded Garrison Institute, author of The Well-Tempered City
Spouse(s)Diana Calthorpe Rose
Children2
Parent(s)Sandra Priest Rose
Frederick P. Rose
Family David Rose (great-uncle)
Daniel Rose (uncle)
Elihu Rose (uncle)
Deborah Rose (sister)
Adam R. Rose (brother)
David S. Rose (cousin)
Gideon Rose (cousin)
Amy Rose Silverman (cousin)

Jonathan F.P. Rose (born 1952) [2] is an American real estate developer, urban planner and author. He is best known as a developer of affordable, environmentally responsible communities. [3] [4] [5] Rose is also the founder of Gramavision Records, a jazz and new music label. He is the author of The Well Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Behavior Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life. [6]

Gramavision Records is an American record label founded in 1979. Since 1994 it has been a subsidiary of Rykodisc.

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Early life and education

Rose was born to a Jewish family [7] living in Harrison, New York and raised in Scarsdale, New York, the son of Sandra (née Priest) and Frederick P. Rose. [8] His grandfather, Samuel B. Rose, and great-uncle, David Rose, founded the real estate development company Rose Associates in 1928 and built small apartment buildings in the Bronx and then in Manhattan in the 1930s. [8] [9] His father, Frederick P. Rose, who later served as the chairman of Rose Associates, expanded the company with his two brothers, Daniel and Elihu. [8] Rose attended the Horace Mann School and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy in 1974. In 1980, Rose earned a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania [2] in a program lead by Ian McHarg.

American Jews Ethnic group

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality. The current Jewish community in the United States consists primarily of Ashkenazi Jews, who descend from diaspora Jewish populations of Central and Eastern Europe and comprise about 90-95% of the American Jewish population. Most American Ashkenazim are US-born, with a dwindling number of now elderly earlier immigrants, as well as some more recent foreign-born immigrants.

Harrison, New York Coterminous town/village in New York, United States

Harrison is a coterminous town-village located in Westchester County, New York, approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Manhattan. The population was 27,472 at the 2010 census. Harrison was ranked sixth in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York State for 2014 according to the national online real estate brokerage Movoto.

Scarsdale, New York Village & Town in New York, United States

Scarsdale is a town and village in Westchester County, New York. The Town of Scarsdale is coextensive with the Village of Scarsdale, but the community has opted to operate solely with a village government, one of several villages in the state that have a similar governmental situation. As of the 2010 census, Scarsdale's population was 17,166.

Career

After graduate school, Rose joined his family's real estate company, Rose Associates, in 1976 to learn the practice of development. In 1979-80, he developed the American Thread Building, the first live/work residential community to include computers and internet access in every home. [10] When New York City's Mayor Koch called for assistance in developing affordable housing, Rose Associates obtained development rights for the area around the Atlantic Terminal. Rose was named project developer. In 1984, Rose over saw the design and approvals of the project, Atlantic Center, conceived of as one of the first large scale green mixed-use, mixed-income communities, with moderate-income housing units that were to be built under the New York City Partnership New Homes program. Prior to the start of construction, the project was later sold to Bruce Ratner's firm, Forest City/Ratner. [2] [11] [12]

Bruce Ratner is an American philanthropist, real estate developer, and former minority owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets.

In 1979, Rose founded Gramavision Records, now a subsidiary of Rykodisc, producing over 75 jazz and new music recordings of artists including Taj Mahal, the Kronos Quartet, and John Scofield. [13] [14] In 1986, he became a founding board member for Jazz at Lincoln Center and was in charge of the design and construction of its home, the Frederick P. Rose Hall. [2] [15]

Rykodisc was an American record label. Its catalog is owned by Warner Music Group, operating as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.

Taj Mahal (musician) American blues musician

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician, a singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments. He often incorporates elements of world music into his works and has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, and the South Pacific.

Kronos Quartet American string quartet

The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. They have been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for over forty years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 900 works have been written for them.

In 1989, he left Rose Associates and founded Jonathan Rose Companies, a national development, owners' representative and investment firm. The firm is a leading developer of green, affordable and mix-income housing, well known for its Via Verde housing project in the South Bronx, a joint venture with Phipps Houses, and Highlands' Garden Village, a mixed use mixed income urban infill community in Denver Colorado. The firm's planning work is focused on increasing opportunity for lower income families and addressing environmental issues. As project managers, the firm works with cities and not-for-profits to realize projects such as Signature Theater on 42nd St. in New York City, The Orchestra of St Luke's DiMenna Center for Classical Music, The Irish Arts Center, and the redevelopment of the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering campus in Brooklyn. [4] Rose was given the Visionary Leadership Award by the MIT Center for Real Estate in 2010. [16]

In September 2014, Rose gave the Dunlop Lecture at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, titled "The Entwinement of Housing and Wellbeing." [17] He became an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2014 in recognition of his career and work with mixed-use and mixed-income, and green projects. [18] He also held the Yale School of Architecture's Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Architectural Fellowship in 2015. [19] Rose was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School in 2015. [20]

The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University advances understanding of housing issues and informs policy. Through its research, education, and public outreach programs, the center helps leaders in government, business, and the civic sectors make decisions that effectively address the needs of cities and communities. Through graduate and executive courses, as well as fellowships and internship opportunities, the Joint Center also trains and inspires the next generation of housing leaders.

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The Jonathan Rose Companies’ Smart Growth Investment Fund was the country’s first real estate fund focused exclusively on acquiring and retrofitting green buildings. [21] The firm now has six investment funds, four of which focus on the acquisition and preservation of affordable housing. In 2017, Rose's firm purchased Forest City's national federally subsidized affordable housing portfolio, as well as its affordable housing property management group and its FHA Mortgage operation. [22]

Rose is the author of The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, published by Harper Wave in September 2016 to mixed reviews. [23] Rose proposes that in order to "harmonize" cities Rose proposes a methodology built on five qualities: coherence, circularity, resilience, community, and compassion. Siddhartha Mukherjee commented that "...this provocative, important, and majestically composed book about the future of cities should be essential reading for our times." The review in the Stanford Social Innovation Review found that the book "overlooks organic and spontaneous responses to urban issues" and offered limited practical advice. [24] The book received a PROSE Award for 'Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher' in 2017. [25]

Philanthropy

In 1977, Rose joined The Educational Alliance board, and served as the head of its real estate committee, overseeing the development of senior, homeless and affordable housing, drug treatment centers, and social services. In 1986, Rose joined Wynton Marsalis and a leadership group to form Jazz at Lincoln Center, where he was chairman of its executive committee from 1996-2003 and oversaw the design and construction of its home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, named after his father. In 1992, Rose became the chairman of the board of the Greyston Foundation, a community development organization in Yonkers, New York, and lead its growth in the development of affordable housing, social services and job creation and training. [2] In 1999, Rose and his father created the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship with Enterprise Community Partners, which placed emerging architects in community development organizations. [26]

In 2002, Rose and his wife co-founded the Garrison Institute "to connect the wisdom of the contemplative traditions with social and environmental action." [1] Rose is on the board of Enterprise Community Partners, [27] the Brooklyn Academy of Music, [28] and an honorary board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, The American Museum of Natural History, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. [29] In 2007, he was named commission chair of the Green Ribbon Commission of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. [30] He was a member of the Governors 2100 Commission formed in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy. [31]

Personal life

He is married is Diana Calthorpe Rose, sister of architect Peter Calthorpe. [32] They have two daughters, Ariel Flores Zurofsky (born 1973 during Calthorpe's previous marriage), and artist Rachel Rose (born 1986). [2] [1] Rose describes himself as both Jewish and Buddhist stating "I think Buddhism has really advanced the science of the mind, and Judaism has advanced the process of generosity." [1]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 BuildingNY: "The Life of Jonathan F. P. Rose" October 10, 2012
  3. ↑ Daniel Goleman (February 19, 2010). "Ecological Intelligence: Do Humans Have What it Takes to Survive?". Alternet. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  4. 1 2 30 Minute Interview: "Jonathan F. P. Rose" By VIVIAN MARINO January 15, 2010
  5. ↑ Commercial Observer: "La Vie En Rose: Jonathan Rose on Making Real Estate Greener and More Affordable" By Danielle Schlanger January 7, 2015
  6. ↑ Richard Florida (September 27, 2016). "How to 'Tune' a City". City Lab. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  7. ↑ New York Observer: "The Rose Family" By Jason Horowitz December 18, 2006
  8. 1 2 3 New York Times: "Frederick P. Rose, 2d-Generation Builder And a Major Philanthropist, Is Dead at 75" By CHARLES V. BAGLI September 16, 1999
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  13. ↑ Theater for a New Audience: "Jonathan F.P. Rose" retrieved April 10, 2015
  14. ↑ Metropolis Magazine: "Game Changer: Jonathan F.P. Rose - A developer who combines a keen feel for the housing market with a genuine commitment to social justice, good urbanism, and green building" by Ian Volner January 2014
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  16. ↑ "Three Days of Anniversary Festivities". MIT School of Architecture & Planning.
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  31. ↑ "Recommendations to Improve the Strength and Resilience of the Empire State's Infrastructure" (PDF). NYS 2100 Commission. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  32. ↑ Urban Land Institute: "C. Nichols Prize Winner—Peter Calthorpe" by Leigh Franke August 3, 2006
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