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Jason Cox

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2 years

We should be building versions of this on neighborhood corners across the country.

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2 months

Steakhouse so dark I can’t read the menu. Martini is high-proof, large and ice cold. Every waiter is >50. Cautiously optimistic already.

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Jason Cox

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20 days

Killing someone with an automobile should be a serious crime.

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Jason Cox

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2 years

I just want to build this neighborhood somewhere is that too much to ask?

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2 years

@MuriamDavis @LEBassett Many conversations in France begin with “this cannot be done” and slowly whittle away to a compromise.

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Jason Cox

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2 months

“I assumed a continued restriction of supply would drive increases in value but then they built new supply” is not in fact a sign of trouble. It’s a sign of progress.

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2 months

Austin, TX is in more trouble than I thought. A close family friend moved to Austin, TX in 2022 from Bloomfield, MI. Bought a small home for around $650k (all inclusive, with updates). Daughter relocated to Dallas, TX and as luck would have, their son got a really good job in

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Jason Cox

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3 months

It really wrecks some people’s brains to learn I’m pro urbanism largely ~because~ I’m pro rural & agricultural areas remaining such. They’re so excited to let me know I’m a clueless urbanite that doesn’t know where food comes from or what freedom looks like in my crime infested

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Jason Cox

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7 months

Possibly unpopular opinion: Churches and universities should pay property tax like everyone else.

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Jason Cox

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2 years

When a storefront is more than a storefront.

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Jason Cox

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3 months

I think I’ve cracked the code for US cities. What if we built more houses where people already are & less houses where people have to drive back & forth from? Then we make sure all those houses are connected to where people like to go with walkable & bikable streets, transit.

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Jason Cox

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1 year

Observation: Fathers today are much quicker to tell colleagues “sorry I can’t make that time, taking my daughter to the dentist” or similiar. I.e. they are 1) involved in parenting beyond evenings & weekends, 2) they don’t feel the need to claim a work reason. 1st - this is

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Jason Cox

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3 months

Did you know that your city can do things without needing a 2 year process and paying a consultant $200k? Seriously. They can.

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@the_transit_guy

3 months

During the pandemic, Jersey City used leftover tennis court paint and cones to close off the street to make it pedestrian-only. It's now permanent, and I don't know why every single town and city isn't doing it as we speak.

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Jason Cox

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5 months

@Boenau How did this person not immediately get out of their vehicle? I can’t imagine being in this situation but even more so just…. Backing up and waiting to go around.

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Jason Cox

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1 month

Another: 55+ communities should be illegal.

Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

5 months

Drop a REtwit take that’ll get you flamed alive:

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Jason Cox

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1 year

The world needs more tile-faced bars.

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Jason Cox

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4 months

@TxDOT You’d be amazed how much freight a railway can move.

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1 year

Storefronts are the highest form of marketing.

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Jason Cox

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1 month

Actually the difference is the left photos predate design review and planning codes while the right ones were subject to. I can find you lots of photos of pretty, LARGE buildings from the same era. It has nothing to do with scale.

Culture Critic

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1 month

Why is everywhere in America starting to lose its identity? It's mostly because of one thing — scale... (thread) 🧵

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Jason Cox

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9 months

The real reason we can’t have smaller fire trucks in the U.S. is because tiny trucks aren’t macho and a lot of firefighters are enthralled with driving around in huge engines on every call.

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Jason Cox

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11 months

@clubmoss_ The ~only~ way this happens is if mgmt didn't give her the option.

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Jason Cox

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2 months

Having a 14yr old is has taught me: This is gas (good) So Ohio (bland/boring/bad) Blud (fam/like family) Rizz (charisma) Gyat (attractive girl) Skibidi (off, not normal) -See also skibidi rizz (charismatic but off) & skibidi gyat (hot but evil) Send help

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Jason Cox

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2 months

A European sensibility for riverfronts that I’m here for.

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Jason Cox

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4 months

FYI if your niece decides to have her wedding (front yard) & the reception (back yard) at your house it probably will cost more than if you rented a venue. That’s before adding that every future home project that would have been done in the next 8 years has now had to be done

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

28 days

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Mike Eliason

@holz_bau

28 days

if fire marshals were 1/100th as concerned about vehicle and road design as they are about single stair buildings - literally the most common multifamily building the world over - we'd actually make headway in how dangerous and deadly traffic violence in this country is.

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Jason Cox

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7 months

The biggest housing issue we have is we created this belief that each property owner has veto rights over its neighbor - whether next door or down the street. Which itself was an erosion of the very idea of private property rights.

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Jason Cox

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3 months

The reason you don’t see starter homes like we built 60-70 years ago isn’t because developers won’t build them. It’s because existing homeowners, via city councils, made them illegal to build.

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Jason Cox

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2 years

Found out replacing 1 mile of water & sewer line, stormwater management infrastructure in a market I work in costs $7.6 million. Care to guess how many miles of newly annexed suburban neighborhoods have been approved in last year? A whole lot more than infill* that’s for sure.

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Jason Cox

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10 months

Too many hospitality spaces have gone full industrial with spare concrete floors. No color, no visual joy. Time for more of this in the world.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

I have no clue. Because this isn't that.

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Jason Cox

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11 months

@clubmoss_ ~sincerely, actual management

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Jason Cox

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6 months

A painful truth that many in urbanism avoid (consciously or otherwise) is that even when things don’t rise to a crime, anti-social behavior makes people feel uncomfortable or unsafe and drives their decisions accordingly. If you want people to embrace urbanism you can’t tell

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Jason Cox

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5 months

@JulieChangRE This appears to be the New Money style of architecture, in which a random variety of interesting ideas are combined in an incohesive manner that renders them valueless while spending a large amount of money for each.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 months

Walkable European cities have been famously ruined by streetcars.

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@Urban_Connector

2 months

“Enjoying your walk?” New anti Beltline rail sign spotted with a QR code. Like a streetcar moving at 15-20 mph is just going to kill the quality of enjoying the Beltline more than any other factor that’s there today.

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Jason Cox

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9 months

Fascinating to me how many people seem to think the taxes they pay should be some sort of ~1:1 benefit returned, rather than a collectively favorable structure for a stable society. See: I don’t have kids so why do I pay for schools, etc.

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Jason Cox

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5 months

Forget parking for a moment. What’s with this setback obsession? “You can build the 1st floor to the sidewalk but then must step back the 2nd floor 10 feet” Look at the cited example, then the buildable result. There’s no value in this. It steals living space AND looks stupid.

Gordon Padelford

@GordonOfSeattle

5 months

On first pass it's exciting that the "One Seattle Comprehensive Plan" draft released by @SeattleOPCD includes more corner stores! But on closer inspection, it requires 3 🚗 parking spaces per store? That would still make the example they use, the Volunteer Park Cafe, illegal.

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Jason Cox

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5 months

And they said it couldn’t be done. They said you can’t use smaller apparatuses. They said we need 35’ curb to curb. They said we don’t have room for bike lanes. Keep doubt’n, look at us now.

ilovelucidmonday

@jwulius

5 months

The new LA fire truck update just dropped.

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Jason Cox

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2 months

@TKyle Mild increase of the brightness on the regular screen and a close angle. I’m not an animal Kyle.

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Jason Cox

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4 months

@IAmClintMurphy Did my wife pay you?

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Jason Cox

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1 year

I know no one is going to believe me but the FDIC is actually good at handling these things. This isn’t nearly the scale of WAMU. Another bank will be announced as purchasing (and backing) the deposits probably Monday.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

30 days

“Who cares about elevator costs?” I care about elevator costs. Because I can’t build that 4 story infill project with 8 homes under the current cost structure. So irredeemably unaware.

Hal Singer

@HalSinger

1 month

@mattyglesias Who cares about elevator costs? Many buildings don’t have one, and for those that do, the elevator is a small % of total costs. Also, I tried to engage you on the merits here, with no response. Can’t write an essay every time a neoliberal gets it wrong.

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Jason Cox

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1 year

A story in three parts. income sorry gross we teach finance

Ian Weiner, CFP®

@ianweiner90

1 year

Real estate is easy and lucrative!

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Jason Cox

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6 months

@sovereignbrah This chart is intentionally misleading.

Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

6 months

@MPrinParr Thoroughly, intentionally misleading.

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Jason Cox

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2 years

New dev goal: “We build 3-story corner buildings that instantly make neighborhoods cooler across the SE”

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Jason Cox

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2 years

Hello? I wish to report a crime.

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Jason Cox

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2 years

@MuriamDavis @LEBassett Exactly. The first time visiting France I got truly flustered when I said something and the response was akin to asking if I could sleep with one’s spouse. Then I slowly learned that it was simply the opening serve.

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Jason Cox

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2 years

@cafedujord @angelaswartz 3 story townhomes “looming over” his….. 3 story home on 2 acres.

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Jason Cox

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7 months

Bring back streetcar suburbs.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 months

“We need more affordable housing.” Followed by “f**k developers.” Ok good luck with that then.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

3 months

“This isn’t for you.” A recurring theme in rezonings are complaints it isn’t what someone wants. Why can’t this be detached homes? Why are you putting a brewery here? Why can’t this be (insert thing they like)? What I’ve come to realize is it’s a sincere question. Almost all…

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Jason Cox

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6 months

Two kinds of college towns. A city ~with~ a university in it. A university with a town around it. Pretty easy to spot the difference once you look.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

1 year

Sidewalk seating is signage. Make it special.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

9 months

What’s wild is if I use capital to build a restaurant people are like “That’s awesome! Scrappy restaurateurs add so much vibrancy to the community”. But if I use that same capital to build small multifamily they’re like “you’re a greedy developer gentrifying our neighborhood.”

Marilyn Moedinger

@mwmoedinger

9 months

@moseskagan People get very mad about landlords earning money for their work, but not at grocery store owners or water companies (who bottle something that falls free from the sky and then charge you for it) or clothing store owners. It's always puzzled me.

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Jason Cox

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1 year

More Italianate facades please.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

1 year

Revitalizing a Small Southeastern Downtown, a working primer. 1st, The Req’ts: -Accessibility: <40 minutes from 1 or more larger metros. -Growth: Metro must have strong growth, creating pricing pressure for both residents & companies.

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Jason Cox

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1 year

“Dimon revealed that JPMorgan now has more employees in Texas than New York” Strongly believe that many North Eastern cities are asleep at the wheel with what has been happening, and it is only accelerating.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

@SFGlobeTrekker You’re aiming for the fences I’m just trying to get on base.

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Jason Cox

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2 months

The idea of homeownership as a form of investment via restriction has been deeply damaging to society in a way that’s not fully recognized.

Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

3 months

Homes became financial instruments, investments, retirement plans. Thus a desire to grow values via restrictive zoning & preventing new supply. So - a product that’s now a financial instrument to be safeguarded + a regulatory environment that protects incumbent values, slows

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3 months

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Binky Longbottoms

@Twittle_Johnny

3 months

@v_sapronov @jasoncoxnc Don't worry, the city will come to you. If we don't increase density, city/suburban sprawl will eventually reach out and disrupt your lifestyle. People who love/require rural remoteness should be 100% behind proper urban planning to eliminate sprawl/lifestyle infringement.

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Jason Cox

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1 month

Cities shouldn’t be allowed the option to approve housing only if it’s locked up in an age-restricted format.

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Jason Cox

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2 years

People who were in middle school during GFC handing out investment advice for a recessionary market. 🚩

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

Everytime I’m told a tech startup is going to fix construction I go look at how many software engineers it takes to run a startup that sends daily affirmations or something and I laugh and I laugh and I laugh.

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Jason Cox

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4 months

The simplest way to find out if an ethnic restaurant is good: GOOD START: Doesn’t take American Express. GREAT: Menu is in home language, English version poorly translated. AMAZING: And cash only. BEST: and the owner’s kid comes out to help because they don’t speak English.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

3 months

A middle class lifestyle today is equivalent to (and in many ways better) then that of the wealthy just ~7 decades ago. But people will swear to you this is the worst time to be alive.

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Jason Cox

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4 months

Arches. Dance floors. Pavilions. Chairs. Tables. Fireworks (not mad at that) Bathroom trailers. Flowers. Fire pits -Landscaping. So much landscaping. -Window cleaning. -Pressure washing. -All porches repainted. -All wood and doors restained. -New stone walkways. -Our

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

I had a front row seat during the Great Recession, selling literally hundreds of foreclosures each year for banks. Let me tell you what's coming next. 👇🏻

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Jason Cox

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1 year

There are two people in this exchange that I really look forward to breaking bread with some day. I’ll let you figure out which two.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

3 years

1/ In 2016 we opened a quirky coffee shop+crêperie “for fun” in a vacant 1450 sqft space. The idea was founded on advice that every downtown revitalization begins with one or more of the “three Bs” - Beans (coffee), beer, and bakery. Coffee + unexpected food offering=interesting

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

6 months

None of these places were created through design review. 📍Alexandria 📍Charleston 📍Boston 📍Portland OR

Real Kelly E

@realkellye

6 months

I have a lot of views that are considered radical so maybe this is another one but design review should be abolished everywhere. Cities shouldn't be in the business of deciding the elevations of apartment buildings.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

Control over $100mm in RE assets creates far more future opportunity than full ownership of $10mm. This is what I’m beginning to grasp.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

3 months

it is shocking when I sometimes tell a group that this project simply ~isn’t~ for them. They aren’t obligated to live there, or shop there, or eat there. This project ~is~ for a lot of other people who ~do~ want these things. This isn’t for you. And that’s ok.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

@CaseyMericle Focus on the re-rent first. Then will have a true final balance to go after former tenant. Everyone does the opposite order to their detriment.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

1 month

@ianmatthewroth In fact it is not as that would be discriminatory. Weird huh

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Jason Cox

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9 months

My feed: “I did not have financial relations with that man.”

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

4 months

Former Dollar General to wine bar is the kind of adaptive reuse project I can get behind.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

4 months

Area FD got a brand new ladder truck. Clocked in at $2m on the nose with a 100’ ladder. There are no buildings over 3 stories in this city. All site plans submitted must accomodate said truck, regardless of structure heights.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

7 months

@scottdavisCRE The Y axis here kinda overplays the real % change.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

6 months

“I just don’t understand why we aren’t seeing more local, small scale development.” City Planner II, flipping through a 862 page UDO as they prepare for a meeting with one of the 18 city advisory committees involved.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 months

@gthomaskerr For the dry aged section said “request beyond medium will not be honored”

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

9 months

Meanwhile every fire house has to drive >$1m fire engines to respond to someone who choked on a Wendy’s chicken nugget and we think it’s completely normal.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

Updated site plan & renderings on a little incremental development project we’re pushing along to hopeful approval. -38 homes (10 1br, 28 2br) -1.07 acres. -highly walkable -thoughtfully integrated with its surroundings

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Jason Cox

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1 month

If Texas and a feral hog had a child, it would be Florida. With Texas’ self-centeredness and beaches, and the feral hog’s chaotic energy and potential for injury, it attracts more mortgage fraud and senior citizens than anywhere else. How is Florida not universally recognized

SMB Attorney

@SMB_Attorney

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If Texas and California had a child, it would be Florida. With California’s weather and beaches, and Texas’s business and tax-friendly climate, it attracts more billionaire residents and tourists than anywhere else. How is Florida not universally recognized as the best state?

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Why is ~your~ city not doing this? Go big.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

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If you aren’t familiar with construction code I’ll give you a simple, easy primer. If it’s for a single family home it will be relatively cheap. If it’s for multifamily housing it will be expensive and needlessly wasteful. There, that’s building code.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

1 year

If you build it they will come.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

3 years

Gonna be a lotta late 30s-early 40s white dudes rocking DMX playlists by the grill this weekend.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

@PaulinaJones And that’s how the No Porno Shoots clause ended up in Paulina’s leases.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

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96% OF FIRE CALLS AREN’T EVEN FIRE-RELATED. MOST OF THEM ARE FOR ACCIDENTS BECAUSE WE DESIGN UNSAFE STREETS SO BIG FIRE TRUCKS CAN DRIVE REALLY FAST TO CAR ACCIDENTS FROM DRIVING REALLY FAST.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

2 years

@legalnomads @MuriamDavis @LEBassett Now when it’s truly impossible is when they don’t say that and simply begin serving another customer.

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@jasoncoxnc

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Want to turn your city into the regional GOAT of municipalities? 1. Street trees. A lot of them. Good ones, planned to grow big. 2. Sidewalks to enjoy them. 3. Thoughtful protected bike lane network. 4. Slimmed streets to make walking, biking safer & more enjoyable. 5. Bury

David Ellebrecht

@davidellebrecht

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Was scouting neighborhoods today thinking about why some felt nicer than others: - 3ft sidewalks vs. 4ft (or 5ft). - visible power lines or not - fences on the front property line or not What else makes a neighborhood feel nicer than others?

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Jason Cox

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“Just 28% of Americans say they're satisfied with immigration levels in the U.S. — the lowest in a decade. Nearly two-thirds of the dissatisfied want less immigration.” So ~46-47% of people think we have too much immigration. Put another way: nearly half the population has no

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Jason Cox

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are of an age where they’ve experienced a world that’s always worked to their benefit. 60+ years of the world largely meeting their preferences. The idea that anything isn’t being built to serve them is actually surprising, which then becomes frustrating & scary. Which is why

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Jason Cox

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2 years

Suburbanites dressing up like Yellowstone characters is a trend that needs to stop immediately.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

1 year

Still true.

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@BiggestttHater

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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Jason Cox

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“You’re a greedy developer looking to make money from our community!” “Ma’am your housing value has increased annually more than than the average full-time worker’s income for a decade. You literally said during our community meeting it’s your retirement account.”

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Jason Cox

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Older movies remind me how much more engaged we had to be in things that are now effectively outsourced. Road trips involved a map book & planning ahead. You had to track miles on the odometer and pay attention that you didn’t miss a turn. You ate at whatever options presented

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Jason Cox

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2 years

Can't help but notice the interest rate increase on my HELOC seems to be quite a bit more than the one on my savings account with the same bank.

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

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This is an indictment against modern planning. Against US building & fire codes. Against a development process designed to frustrate & prevent. It’s inexcusable, and the fact that we continue to let a minority of homeowners dictate where & how others can live is unconscionable.

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Jason Cox

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1 year

Wealthy vs Rich, vacation edition. We were somewhere on the Italian coast one day seated at a table on the water, with a massive yacht moored nearby. Some of the crew happened to be at an adjacent table & we struck up a conversation. The Mexican billionaire owner wasn’t on at

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

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What a Few Years Can Do 2016-2022: -Blew up former life in REO. Took 1yr hiatus. -Met virtually every local “important person”. Walked away largely disappointed. -Found most comm’ty orgs like to have meetings, burnish their reputation. Little appetite for being change agents.👇🏻

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Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

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@melissasavenko The idea that someone could make a return on owning a home for just a couple years, akin to a stock that is tradable yet derisked, has been a net negative imo.

Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

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