Rose of the Jonathan Rose Cos. to speak at YM/WREA's Oct. luncheon

Jonathan Rose, president of Jonathan Rose Cos., LLC, will be the guest speaker at the Young Men's/Women's Real Estate Association's (YM/WREA) October 13 luncheon. Rose's business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world. In 1989, Rose founded Jonathan Rose Cos., a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work, much of it in close collaboration with not-for-profits, towns and cities. The company's mission is to repair the fabric of communities. The firm draws on its human capital, financial depth and real estate expertise to create integrated solutions to real estate challenges. A thought leader in the Smart Growth, national infrastructure, green building, and affordable housing movements, Rose is a frequent speaker and writer. His work has received widespread media attention from CNN to The New York Times and was recently profiled in e2, a PBS series on sustainable development. The firm's development, planning, investment, new construction, conversion and historic preservation work has won awards from a range of notable organizations including: the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Global Green USA, the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects. Rose is the chair of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed one of the nation's first green transit plans. He is a trustee of several organizations including: the Urban Land Institute (where he co-chairs its climate and energy committee); the Natural Resources Defense Council; and Enterprise Community Partners (with whose Green Communities program he is deeply engaged). He also serves on the leadership councils of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Architecture, and chairs the Trust for Public Land's National Real Estate Council. He also serves on the board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the American Museum of Natural History, and is a co-founder of the Garrison Institute with his wife, Diana Rose. He graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Psychology, and received a masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.