California Forever (@CAForever) / X

California Forever

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California Forever

@CAForever

Building the next great American city – in Solano County, California.

Solano County, California

californiaforever.com

Joined February 2021

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Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist
@urbanistvc
May 28
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
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Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI)
@ReaganInstitute
May 18
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 — these are
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Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️
@jansramek
May 15
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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Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist
@urbanistvc
May 8
I revisited California Forever this week with the Abundance Network, and I've never been more excited to build the next great American city. 🇺🇸 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
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Andrew Miller
@AndrewMillerYYZ
Apr 29
Replying to @AndrewMillerYYZ
8/ 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:
California Forever’s mobility vision
From changinglanesnewsletter.com
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Andrew Miller
@AndrewMillerYYZ
Apr 29
Replying to @AndrewMillerYYZ
7/ @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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Andrew Miller
@AndrewMillerYYZ
Apr 29
Replying to @AndrewMillerYYZ
6/ 3️⃣ Minimum density of 30 dwelling units per net acre, i.e., the floor that supports retail and transit 4️⃣ Parking pushed to garages at the city's edge, dynamically priced, with revenue cross-subsidizing transit and cycling
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Andrew Miller
@AndrewMillerYYZ
Apr 29
Replying to @AndrewMillerYYZ
5/ Four irreversible decisions, made before construction, lock in their vision: 1️⃣ Streets as public realm first. Rights-of-way as narrow as 20 feet 2️⃣ Physically-separated rapid-transit lanes. Stops every quarter-mile. Lines half-a-mile apart
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Andrew Miller
@AndrewMillerYYZ
Apr 29
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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Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️
@jansramek
Apr 28
"San Francisco is not an island." My piece for @ycombinator's new magazine, State of the Art:
STATE OF THE ART
@sotazine
Apr 28
Article
San Francisco Is Not an Island
By Jan Sramek (@jansramek) In 2017, I founded California Forever, a company that’s today building the next great American city in Solano County, just over an hour north of San Francisco, and 30...
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Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️
@jansramek
Mar 14
Replying to @jansramek
.@cnupublicsquare summary: cnu.org/publicsquare/2… .@stevemouzon long-form: originalgreen.org/blog/californi…
Mouzon: California Forever is true sustainability, not hype
From cnu.org
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Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️
@jansramek
Mar 14
.@cnupublicsquare on @stevemouzon's review of the Suisun Expansion Plan: "California Forever stands tall above the rest."
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Joshua Seawell
@seawell_IAI
Mar 11
new arg for @latimes from me and @orangutanagram: make new housing beautiful
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