Jonathan F. P. Rose

Rose was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Sandra (née Priest) and Frederick P. Rose of Harrison, New York, a Jewish family;[http://observer.com/2006/12/the-rose-family/ New York Observer: "The Rose Family" By Jason Horowitz] December 18, 2006 he was raised in Scarsdale, New York.[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/16/nyregion/frederick-p-rose-2d-generation-builder-and-a-major-philanthropist-is-dead-at-75.html New York Times: "Frederick P. Rose, 2d-Generation Builder And a Major Philanthropist, Is Dead at 75" By CHARLES V. BAGLI] September 16, 1999 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.{{cite web| url=http://www.rosenyc.com/about-us/our-history/| title=Our History| publisher=RoseNYC| access-date=December 9, 2016}} His father, Frederick P. Rose, who later served as the chairman of Rose Associates, expanded the company with his two brothers, Daniel and Elihu. Rose attended the Horace Mann School and graduated in 1974 from Yale University with a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy. In 1980, he earned a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania

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.{{cite news |last=McKeon |first=Nancy |date=August 31, 1981 |title=Wired for the Future |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-QCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50 |newspaper=New York Magazine |location=New York, NY |access-date=May 20, 2017}} 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 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 Bruce Ratner's firm, Forest City/Ratner.{{cite web| url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/40under40/1989/Rose| title=Jonathan Rose, 37| publisher=Crain's New York| date=1989| access-date=July 18, 2016}}{{cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/28/nyregion/a-plan-for-brooklyn-rises-at-atlantic-terminal.html| title=A Plan for Brooklyn Rises at Atlantic Terminal| author=Jesus Rangel| date=September 28, 1986| work=The New York Times| access-date=December 9, 2016}}

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.[http://www.tfana.org/about/new-home/project-development-team/jonathan-f-p-rose Theater for a New Audience: "Jonathan F.P. Rose"] retrieved April 10, 2015[http://www.metropolismag.com/january-2014/game-changer-jonathan-fp-rose/ 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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414142421/http://www.metropolismag.com/january-2014/game-changer-jonathan-fp-rose/ |date=2015-04-14 }} January 2014 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/09/how-to-tune-a-city/501776/|title=How to 'Tune' a City|newspaper=Bloomberg |date=27 September 2016 |publisher=City Lab}}

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 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 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 New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering 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.{{cite news|last1=Stephen|first1=Del Percio|title=Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund Makes First New York City Acquisition|url=http://www.greenrealestatelaw.com/2009/01/first-nyc-acquisition-for-rose-fund/|accessdate=20 November 2016|publisher=Green Real Estate Law Journal|date=January 29, 2009}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-developer-jonathan-rose-plows-into-affordable-housing-1488342601|title=New York Developer Jonathan Rose Plows Into Affordable Housing| newspaper= Wall Street Journal|date=March 2017 |last1=Kusisto |first1=Laura }}

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.{{cite book| title=The Well-Tempered City|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28257563-the-well-tempered-city| publisher=GoodReads|isbn=978-0-06-223474-2 | accessdate=January 12, 2017}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://ssir.org/book_reviews/entry/dissonance_harmony_and_compassion |title=Dissonance, Harmony, and Compassion |author=Richard Sinkoff |date=2017 |website=SSIR |publisher= |access-date=23 September 2017 }} The book received a PROSE Award for 'Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher' in 2017.{{cite web| url=https://proseawards.com/winners/| title=2017 Award Winners| publisher= American Publisher Awards|access-date=May 20, 2017}}

Rose was given the Visionary Leadership Award by the MIT Center for Real Estate in 2010.{{cite web|url=https://sap.mit.edu/article/standard/real-estate-center-marks-milestone|title=Three Days of Anniversary Festivities|publisher=MIT School of Architecture & Planning}}

In September 2014, Rose gave the Dunlop Lecture at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, titled "The Entwinement of Housing and Wellbeing."{{cite web|url=http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/events/john-t-dunlop-lecture|title=John T. Dunlop Lecture|publisher=Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard|access-date=May 20, 2017|archive-date=June 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615122948/http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/events/john-t-dunlop-lecture|url-status=dead}} He became an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2014 is.{{cite web|url=http://main.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/2013-aia-convention-special-new-yorkers-shine-as-the-aia-honors-design-excellence-and-public-service/|title=AIA Convention Special: New Yorkers Shine as the AIA Honors Design Excellence and Public Service|author=Julie Ann Engh|date=June 27, 2013|publisher=AIA New York|access-date=May 20, 2017}} He also held the Yale School of Architecture's Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Architectural Fellowship in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://architecture.yale.edu/faculty/edward-p-bass-distinguished-visiting-architecture-fellowship|title=The Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship|publisher=Yale School of Architecture|access-date=May 20, 2017}} Rose was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School in 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/pressroom/pressreleases/2015/Commencement2015.htm|title=GABY PACHECO TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT 79TH NEW SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT|date=2015-05-18}}

• Order of the Beloved Son of the Dragon (17 December 2023).

In 1977, Rose joined the board of The Educational Alliance, 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, 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, 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. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/solutions-and-innovation/design-leadership/rose-architectural-fellowship|title=Rose Architectural Fellowship|publisher=Enterprise Community Partners}}

In 2002, Rose and his wife co-founded the Garrison Institute "to connect the wisdom of the contemplative traditions with social and environmental action." He sits on the boards of Enterprise Community Partners,{{cite web| url=http://www.enterprisecommunity.com/news-and-events/news-releases/rose-fellows-2015-to-2017| title=Six Public Interest Designers Selected for Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship Class of 2015-2017| date=January 16, 2015| publisher=Enterprise| access-date=May 20, 2017}} the Brooklyn Academy of Music,{{cite web| url=http://www.bam.org/about/leadership/board-of-trustees| title=Board of Trustees| publisher=Brooklyn Academy of Music| access-date=May 20, 2017}} and is an honorary board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the American Museum of Natural History, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.{{cite web| url=https://www.nrdc.org/board-trustees| title=Board of Trustees| publisher=NRDC| access-date=May 20, 2017}} In 2007, he was named commission chair of the Green Ribbon Commission of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.{{cite web| url=http://web.mta.info/sustainability/pdf/SustRptFinal.pdf| title=Greening Mass Transit & Metro Regions| access-date=May 20, 2017}} He was a member of New York governor Andrew Cuomo's NYS 2100 Commission formed in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy.{{cite web| url=http://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/archive/assets/documents/NYS2100.pdf| title=Recommendations to Improve the Strength and Resilience of the Empire State's Infrastructure| publisher=NYS 2100 Commission| access-date=May 20, 2017}}

Rose is married to Diana Calthorpe Rose, sister of architect Peter Calthorpe.[http://uli.org/nichols-prize-winners/2006-jc-nichols-prize-winner-peter-calthorpe/ Urban Land Institute: "C. Nichols Prize Winner—Peter Calthorpe" by Leigh Franke] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305160247/http://uli.org/nichols-prize-winners/2006-jc-nichols-prize-winner-peter-calthorpe/ |date=2016-03-05 }} August 3, 2006 They have two daughters, Ariel Flores Zurofsky (born 1973 during Calthorpe's previous marriage), and artist Rachel Rose (born 1986).[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/nyregion/in-person-developer-with-eye-to-profits-for-society.html IN PERSON; Developer With Eye To Profits For Society" By TINA KELLEY] April 11, 2004 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."

• {{cite book| title=The Well Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life| publisher=Harper Collins Publishers| date=September 2016| author=Jonathan F.P. Rose}}
• {{cite book| title=Moral Ground, Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril| publisher=Trinity University Press| date=2010}} - chapter "A Transformational Ecology"
• {{cite book| title=Biophilic Design; The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life| publisher=John Wiley & Sons Inc.| date=2008}} - chapter "Green Urbanism: Developing Restorative Urban Biophilia"
• {{cite book| title=Green Communities| publisher=American Planning Association| date=2008| author=Jonathan F.P. Rose}}
• {{cite book| title=How Can Conservation Help? Using Land Conservation to Address Other Economic and Social Issues| publisher=Yale University| date=2008| author=Jonathan F.P. Rose}}

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• [http://www.welltemperedcity.com/ Thoughts on a Well Tempered City]
• [http://www.rosecompanies.com/ Jonathan Rose Companies]

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