Building the next great American city β in Solano County, California.
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California Forever retweeted
About 18 months ago, I shared my excitement about California Forever and Esmeralda with an elder member of the Stanford Alumni Real Estate Council (SREC).
I was told these projects would NEVER happen.
Fast forward to this week: my friends @jansramek and @devonzuegel headlined the 2026 SREC Spring Retreat in Healdsburg, organized around the theme of placemaking. π
Ambitious urbanist founders are shifting the Overton window.
Urbanist Ventures is here to find and support them before they are popular.
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We're excited to announce that Jan Sramek, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of California Forever, will speak at the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum.
Housing, permitting, urban development, and the question of whether America can still build the things we need β these are among the most important conversations on American economic life, and they're central to RNEF's agenda this year. Mark your calendar for Friday, May 29 to hear this conversation live from #RNEF2026.
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Register for the livestream: reaganfoundation.org/events/β¦
@jansramek @CAForever
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America's fastest-growing cities are all in exurbs, and that's not going to change.
Urbanists have two choices:
1) pretend this is not the case
(2) recognize that the only way to make these projects better is to invent and prove a new, different model, like @CAForever.
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I revisited California Forever this week with the Abundance Network, and I've never been more excited to build the next great American city. πΊπΈ
It's time to reopen the urban frontier.
A place where everyone who has been priced out of walkable urbanism will have a chance.
A place where the people who build the homes can buy the homes.
A place where hard-earned dollars go further than they have in California in a long time.
A place where the default is growth, not stagnation.
Let's build.
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Full analysis in this week's CHANGING LANES, including the cold-start problem, the transfer-penalty fix, and the two gaps I think are still unfilled:
changinglanesnewsletter.subsβ¦
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@CAForever is an audacious attempt to build a city with all the virtues, and few of the vices, of a century of American auto-centric design
It deserves attention and success
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3οΈβ£ Minimum density of 30 dwelling units per net acre, i.e., the floor that supports retail and transit
4οΈβ£ Parking pushed to garages at the city's edge, dynamically priced, with revenue cross-subsidizing transit and cycling
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Four irreversible decisions, made before construction, lock in their vision:
1οΈβ£ Streets as public realm first. Rights-of-way as narrow as 20 feet
2οΈβ£ Physically-separated rapid-transit lanes. Stops every quarter-mile. Lines half-a-mile apart
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1/ In this week's CHANGING LANES, I speak to @jansramek about @CAForever's Suisun Expansion, a new American city built to be car-optional
Cars welcome but inconvenient
Transit and active transport will be so good that most residents, most of the time, will choose them
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"San Francisco is not an island." My piece for @ycombinator's new magazine, State of the Art:
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.@cnupublicsquare summary: cnu.org/publicsquare/2026/03β¦
.@stevemouzon long-form: originalgreen.org/blog/califβ¦
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.@cnupublicsquare on @stevemouzon's review of the Suisun Expansion Plan: "California Forever stands tall above the rest."
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California Forever retweeted
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new arg for @latimes from me and @orangutanagram: make new housing beautiful
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News flash: weβre going to build entire buildings of stone that are cheaper than steel and concrete. Thatβs how beauty returns (and venture gets their returns).
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Last year, we invested in @Monumental_Labs.
They use AI and robotics to reduce the cost of stone fabrication by 90%.
Construction tech is our game and while I think what they are doing with art and sculpture fab is amazing, the bull case for ML imo was doing building scale construction with stone. Essentially, reviving a dormant material type for type I construction to compete directly with steel and concrete.
Before investing, I had to answer a question that's been nagging me for years: exactly when and why did we stop building with natural materials like stone? Where did beauty in our built environment go to die?
It's mostly always been an economic story.
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Major U.S. cities by density
β if @jansramek gets his way:
1. New York
2. San Francisco
3. CALIFORNIA FOREVER
4. Boston
Is it for real?
"Itβs at least real enough that, last month, California Forever signed the largest construction labor agreement in history"
β @drvolts
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If AI creates jobs, California will need @CAForever's 174,000 new homes for affordability.
If AI destroys jobs, California will need @CAForever's 530,000 new jobs to replace the losses.
The best time to break ground on the new city was 2 years ago.
The second best time is now.
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Last two pics from the American Dynamism Summit. @SkydioHQ looks like a badass Robocop and its the slickest drone launcher I've ever seen. Plus @CAForever HAS to happen. Given the threat we face directly to our West, we have to build America's largest shipyard and advanced manufacturing park right here in California. We CAN build things here. Right? @pmarca @bhorowitz @a16z
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"[W]ith newfound support from organized labor, California Forever is finally looking more likely than not" @bhargreaves
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California should and can be the climax of human flourishing: the Florentine Renaissance meeting the American Space Age.
Public plazas and blazing rockets, framed by mountains and seaβa sun-drenched frontier of optimism and opportunity for all. βοΈπ
@ashleevance gets it.
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