David Rosen

Doggy daddy - Car enthusiast - Business consultant and entrepreneur - Democratic party political activist - Serving on several community nonprofit boards

[Long Beach Post @LongBeachPost]

Long Beach will not ask voters to raise taxes following dismal polling
https://t.co/PI9ZDVTeOp

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

@BarryRoland19 @schmacznyk Last bathtub I spent the $500 to upgrade to cast iron. We'll see, but if I never have to replace it then that's the ultimate $500.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

I’m just saying… if we can convince Trump that Kei cars are cute and based, I think we can convince him to build the Trump Shinkansen.

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

Oh fuck yea, are we about to get Kei cars?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: If you go to Japan and South Korea and Malaysia, they have a very small car… Very small and really cute. You’re not allowed to build them and I have authorized the secretary to immediately approve the production of those cars.

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

Is the LA River the next great connection? Can minor streets be removed to create greenbelts? @RexRichardson

[Barrett Linburg @DallasAptGP]

There's a pattern that predicts where land values will reprice years before the cranes show up. New York saw it. Chicago saw it. Atlanta saw it. Dallas is next.

Big cities across the country are facing the same dilemma.

The suburbs keep growing while the urban core fights to keep up. People want walkability and community, but they're leaving for places that feel safer, cleaner, and easier to navigate.

Meanwhile, cities like Dallas, Chicago, and Atlanta have big ambitions. They want to be world class.

They want to attract people, businesses, and jobs. They want to keep companies from relocating to the suburbs. They want to convince young talent to live and work downtown instead of moving to Austin or Nashville or Phoenix.

That takes money. Aging infrastructure needs replacing. New amenities need building. Public spaces need to compete with the best in the world.

The tax base isn't shrinking. But it's not growing fast enough to fund those ambitions without raising rates. And raising rates just pushes more people and businesses out the door.

There's another approach. Build infrastructure that makes land more valuable. Not highways. Not stadiums.

Trails.

It sounds almost too simple. But the math works.

When you build a connected trail network, you create the walkability and community people are craving.

Neighborhoods that were cut off become accessible. People start moving in instead of moving out. Land values rise. And when land values rise, tax revenue grows without raising anyone's rate.

You can see this pattern in cities across the country, regardless of how well they're run otherwise.

New York built the High Line. Property values within a few blocks jumped 35%. Whatever you think about New York's politics, that project worked.

Chicago built The 606. Home prices along the trail spiked 48% compared to similar neighborhoods without access.

Atlanta built the BeltLine. Developers have spent more than $9 billion building along it.

The pattern holds whether the city is red, blue, or purple. Build the connection. Land reprices.

Dallas is now running this experiment at the largest scale any American city has attempted.

The Loop is a 50-mile trail circuit that will connect the Katy Trail, White Rock Lake, the Trinity Forest, Fair Park, the Design District, and Pleasant Grove into one continuous network.

One network. Every quadrant.

It looks like a park system. It functions like an economic engine.

Here's how it works. When people can get from one neighborhood to another easily, both neighborhoods become more valuable. When they can't, values stay stuck.

Highways and dead-end streets cut neighborhoods off from each other. Money stops flowing. Businesses can't reach customers. Land sits undervalued for decades.

But when you remove those barriers, everything changes. People flow between neighborhoods. Retail follows. Restaurants follow. Employers follow. Land prices adjust to reflect the new reality.

The Design District is proof that this works in Dallas, and that the Katy Trail wasn't a one-time fluke.

A few years ago, the city built the Hi Line Connector, a short trail segment that plugged the Design District into the Uptown trail network. Before that connection, the Design District was an isolated pocket of warehouses and showrooms. Afterward, it became part of the Uptown ecosystem.

The results were dramatic. Taxable value has climbed 383%. Developers started flipping their blueprints. Buildings now face the trail, not the street.

That shift only happens when an amenity is powerful enough to move rents.

South Dallas is next.

A new 1,200-foot pedestrian bridge is about to open the Trinity Forest Spine Trail, connecting neighborhoods like Dolphin Heights and Parkdale to the rest of the city's trail network for the first time.

These areas have been cut off for decades. The Trinity River, the railroad, and a tangle of highways kept them isolated. Property values stayed low because movement was hard.

That's about to change.

Every city that built a loop trail system saw the same result. Remove the barriers. Capital follows.

The investors who understand this pattern are already moving.

Trails aren't expenses. They're leading indicators. They tell you where land is about to reprice, years before the cranes show up.

If you want to understand where Dallas is heading over the next decade, don't watch the skyline.

Follow the trail.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

The man-baby who’s posted AI videos of Barack Obama getting arrested, Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero & handlebar moustache and himself dumping shit on his own citizens, is now butt-hurt over actual words spoken by Ronald Reagan in an Ontario gov’t ad.

Doug Ford: DO. NOT. REMOVE.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump, the pro-crime president, just commuted the sentence of George Santos. It is pathetic how openly corrupt this administration is. If you commit a bunch of fraud, they’ll bail you out. Insanity.

[Daryl Supernaw @DSupernaw]

There are three CD4 ballot drop box locations: CSULB, El Dorado Park West And Stearns Park.

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

@mahdimanji Obviously.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

LA County once again discussing an eviction moratorium, this time relating to federal deportations of undocumented immigrants.

Am begging the Supervisors to internalize the following:

1. Regardless of our personal feelings regarding the fairness or lack thereof of the deportations: Property owners are not social service agencies. Our job is to provide the housing under the terms of the leases we sign with tenants, in exchange for rent.

2. Every time you even discuss eviction moratoriums, it's like hoisting a gigantic red flag telling investors "DO NOT INVEST HERE"... which would be fine, except there is zero chance LA County can build the housing we need with public $$, so we urgently need private investors to provide it.

If you would like to help families affected by deportations (a worthy goal!), the appropriate means of doing so is a public program providing targeted rental assistance to those specific families.

@kathrynbarger @SupJaniceHahn @LindseyPHorvath @_HollyJMitchell @HildaSolis

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

Star Trek Lego sets coming. The world is okay now.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Just want everyone to remember that this $$ doesn't appear from thin air.

It is confiscated, by force, by the state, from janitors, bus drivers, small business owners, maids, lawyers, doctors - from all the rest of us.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Nah. This is what Europe is like, but America doesn't work like this. The Real Americans have always been the pioneers who showed up chasing a dream.

[Long Beach Post @LongBeachPost]

Homelessness declines in Greater LA, bucking the increase seen in Long Beach
https://t.co/9X251BQst9

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

@RepMaryMiller Puerto Rico?

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Meanwhile, in a land far, far away...

#madewithgemini #veo3

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

@DC_Draino Dumb take.

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

@LA_Multi_Fam Government for the sake of employing people who will donate to your campaign. It's just gone too far.

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

@girdley @cityaestheticss And now a major air hub, just like Atlanta. Being a transit hub for rail or air is just as good at being a transit hub for shipping.

[David Rosen @DavidSLRosen]

@BarryRoland19 Me too! But I haven't bought any of this stuff 😂