Jonathan F.P. Rose

Jonathan F.P. Rose (born 1952)^[1] is an American real estate developer and member of the Rose family. He is one of the largest developers of affordable and green housing in New York City.^[2][3]

Early life and education

Rose was born to a Jewish family in Harrison, New York and raised in Scarsdale, New York, the son of Sandra (nee Priest) and Frederick P. Rose.^[4] His grandfather, Samuel B. Rose, and great-uncle, David Rose, founded the real estate development company Rose Associates in 1923 and built small apartment buildings in the Bronx and then in Manhattan in the 1930s.^[4] His father, Frederick P. Rose, who later served as the chairman of Rose Associates, expanded the company with his two brothers, Daniel and Elihu.^[4] Rose attended the Horace Mann School and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy in 1974; and then earned a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in environmental studies and regional planning.^[1]

Career

After graduate school he worked as the head of the real estate committee of The Educational Alliance which provided housing, drug treatment centers, and social services.^[1] He then went to work for the family company Rose Associates where he served as the retail leasing manager of the 1,000 apartment Mitchell-Lama Manhattan Plaza developed by Richard Ravitch which required 70% of its residents to be employed in the performing arts.^[1] Rose Associates then developed the 895 apartment Sheffield at 57th and 8th Avenue^[1] before going into Brooklyn where in 1984, he developed the master plan for the Atlantic Terminal, a mixed use, mixed income, transit orient project with a green focus; although due to a recession, he was forced to sell their interest to Bruce Ratner.^[1]

In 1989, he left the family business, moved to Denver, Colorado, and founded his own company Jonathan Rose Companies where he purchased the Denver Dry Goods Company Building from The May Department Stores Company, dividing it into separate components including retail, multi-income residential, and office.^[1] He went on to develop additional affordable housing in Yonkers, New York with the Graceton Foundation^[1] and became the board member in charge of the design and construction of the Jazz at Lincoln Center.^[1] Jonathan Rose Companies does public policy, planning, project management, development of mixed use and mixed income projects, and investment.^[2] On the policy side, they help to develop government programs that support healthier cities. Their planning work is focused on environmental issues and on low-income housing including the South Bronx Greenway, and the Newark and Passaic River waterfronts. On the project-management side, they partner with both cities and not-for-profits and are re-developing the campus of the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in Brooklyn. About 50% of their development work is with not-for-profits.^[2] In 2010, his firm had 70 employees and managing $1.5 billion of work.^[2] He built the Third & Valley project in South Orange, New Jersey.^[5]

Rose was the founder of 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.^[6][7]

Philanthropy

Rose is the author of The Well Tempered City published by Harper Collins in 2014. He is a Trustee of several the Urban Land Institute and co-chair of its Climate and Energy Committee; the Natural Resources Defense Council; Enterprise Community Partners; chairs the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission; and serves on the leadership councils of both Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the School of Architecture.^[8]

Personal life

He is married is Diana Calthorpe, sister of architect Peter Calthorpe.^[9] They have one daughter together, Rachel Rose (born 1987); Calthorpe also has a daughter from a previous marriage, Ariel Flores Zurofsky (born 1973).^[10][1] In 2002, they co-founded the Garrison Institute in an old monastery to "to connect the wisdom of the contemplative traditions with social and environmental action."^[10] His father was the head of UJA-Federation of New York.^[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."^[10] The Roses live in North Salem, New York.^[10]

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