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Jonathan Frederick Phinneas Rose (born 1952)BuildingNY: "The Life of Jonathan F. P. Rose"
October 10, 2012
is an American urban planner and real estate developer. Through his corporation Jonathan Rose Companies, he is known for developing communities that are considered affordable and environmentally-responsible.
January 15, 2010
Apart from his involvement in various aspects of property, Rose has founded
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label. Rose has written several books including ''The Well Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Behavior Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life''.


Early life and education

Rose was born in
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, the son of Sandra (née Priest) and
Frederick P. Rose Frederick Phineas Rose (1923–1999) was an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and member of the Rose family. Biography Rose was born in Brooklyn
of
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, a
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family; he was raised in
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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. His father,
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, who later served as the chairman of Rose Associates, expanded the company with his two brothers, Daniel and Elihu. Rose attended the
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and graduated in 1974 from
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with a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy. In 1980, he earned a Masters in Regional Planning from the
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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, a live/work residential community that included computers and a data bank in each unit. When New York City's Mayor Koch called for assistance in developing affordable housing, Rose Associates obtained development rights for the area around the
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. Rose was named project developer. In 1984, Rose oversaw the design and approvals of the project, Atlantic Center, conceived of as a large scale green mixed-use, mixed-income communities, with moderate-income housing units to be built under the New York City Partnership New Homes program. Prior to the start of construction, the project was sold to
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's firm, Forest City/Ratner. In 1979, Rose founded
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, now a subsidiary of
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, producing over 75 jazz and new music recordings of artists including
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, the
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, and
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. In 1986, he became a founding board member for
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and was in charge of the design and construction of its home, the Frederick P. Rose Hall. In 1989, he left Rose Associates and founded Jonathan Rose Companies, a national development, owners' representative and investment firm. The firm is a developer of green, affordable and mix-income housing, known for its Via Verde housing project in the
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, a joint venture with Phipps Houses, and Highlands' Garden Village, a mixed use mixed income urban infill community in
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. The firm's planning work is focused on facilities for lower income families and addressing environmental issues. As project managers, the firm works with cities and not-for-profits on 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
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campus in Brooklyn. The Jonathan Rose Companies’ Smart Growth Investment Fund was the country’s first real estate fund focused exclusively on acquiring and retrofitting green buildings. The firm now has six investment funds, four of which focus on 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.


Publications

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. Rose proposes a methodology built on five qualities: coherence, circularity, resilience, community, and compassion.
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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
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found that the book "overlooks organic and spontaneous responses to urban issues" and offered limited practical advice. The book received a PROSE Award for 'Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher' in 2017.


Honors

Rose was given the Visionary Leadership Award by the MIT Center for Real Estate in 2010. In September 2014, Rose gave the Dunlop Lecture at Harvard's
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, titled "The Entwinement of Housing and Wellbeing." He became an honorary member of the
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(AIA) in 2014 is. He also held the
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's Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Architectural Fellowship in 2015. Rose was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from
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in 2015.


Philanthropy

In 1977, Rose joined the board of
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, 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
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and a leadership group to form
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, of which he was chairman of the executive committee from 1996-2003, and oversaw the design and construction of its home,
Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center in New York City. The organization was founded in 1987 and opened at Time Warner Center in October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orches ...
, named after his father. In 1992, Rose became the chairman of the board of the Greyston Foundation, a community development organization in
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, and lead its growth in the development of affordable housing, social services and job creation and training. In 1999, Rose and his father created the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship with
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, which placed emerging architects in community development organizations. In 2002, Rose and his wife co-founded the
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"to connect the wisdom of the contemplative traditions with social and environmental action." He sits on the boards of Enterprise Community Partners, the
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, and is an honorary board member of the
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, the
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, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 2007, he was named commission chair of the Green Ribbon Commission of the
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. He was a member of New York governor
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's NYS 2100 Commission formed in 2012 after
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.


Personal life

Rose is married is Diana Calthorpe Rose, sister of architect
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They have two daughters, Ariel Flores Zurofsky (born 1973 during Calthorpe's previous marriage), and artist
Rachel Rose Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, ''Giving My Body to Science'', ''Notes on Arrival and Departure'', and ''Song and Spectacle''. Her ...
(born 1986).IN PERSON; Developer With Eye To Profits For Society" By TINA KELLEY
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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."


Selected works

* * - chapter "A Transformational Ecology" * - chapter "Green Urbanism: Developing Restorative Urban Biophilia" * *


References


External links


Thoughts on a Well Tempered CityJonathan Rose Companies
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