This is not NYC, this street is a little over a decade old in Columbus, OH. Stop pretending we can’t build great walkable and dense neighborhoods all across the country!

Today we're announcing our Series D: $1.37B in new capital at a $7.87B valuation to Reindustrialize America. Thank you to all our investors. WCM Investment Management, @WashingHarbour, Valor Equity Partners, @137ventures, and @BaillieGifford led the round. @jpmorgan Chase's Strategic Investment Group acted as anchor co-lead, investing through the firm's Security and Resiliency Initiative. The round also included major participation by @1789capital, as well as participation from @MorganStanley Wealth Management, @apolloglobal, @TRowePrice, @a16z, @CapitalG, @foundersfund, @lux_capital, @AltimeterCap, @constructcap, and existing investors. This round confirms our belief in a few simple things: America needs to Reindustrialize, Physical AI is real, transforming the world of atoms matters 100x more than the world of bits, and, most importantly, that the New American Workforce is the center of everything we do. Here's what we've built, and what comes next.

The grand conspiracy, quite popular on here, that contemporary/modern architecture only exists because ideological architects push it is just silly. Stuff like this gets built without architects meaningfully involved, and in places without design review. Why? Consumers want it!

Brian Hanlon (@hanlonbt), CEO of @cayimby, in today's @sacbee_news: "Founding cities is one of California's oldest traditions...every place Californians now call home began as someone's audacious plan...the real question is: when did we decide this founding spirit had expired?"

Brian Hanlon (@hanlonbt), CEO of @cayimby, in today's @sacbee_news: "Founding cities is one of California's oldest traditions...every place Californians now call home began as someone's audacious plan...the real question is: when did we decide this founding spirit had expired?"

Brian Hanlon (@hanlonbt), CEO of @cayimby, in today's @sacbee_news: "Founding cities is one of California's oldest traditions...every place Californians now call home began as someone's audacious plan...the real question is: when did we decide this founding spirit had expired?"

In the meantime... China smashes ship-order record in first half...82.3% of world orderbook!!! "New contracts totalled 121.06m dwt between January and June, up 173.1% year on year and equal to 82.3% of global ordering on a deadweight basis, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The six-month haul was already 12.3% above the 107.82m dwt secured during all of 2025." Repeal the Jones Act, and guess where the replacement ships will be built? splash247.com/?p=242998

The only real problem with Seaside is that we only built a few of them; it's such a vastly superior product than the alternatives that demand far outstripped supply, and so now it gets knocked for being unaffordable, "too nice," etc.

We were in Wicker Park this weekend and overwhelmed by the level of pedestrian activity there. No empty storefronts. Shops are PACKED with people shopping for books, records, clothing, etc. It made me think of this Economist piece that included Wicker Park among affluent neighborhoods defying suburbanization. Family formation no longer automatically means suburban departure Households with children increasingly remain where schools, parks, shops, transit, and social life are accessible on foot. Importantly, the premium attaches to low-rise, fine-grained neighborhoods with streets, small blocks, active ground floors, parks, and family-sized homes. Artificial scarcity has made these neighborhoods into luxury goods, which is very sad. Their premiums demonstrate demand, but also reveal the failure to produce more comparable places.

I really like the idea of Solano and want it to succeed, but like... great example of why no new shipyards will be built on the west coast.

Westminster has built a country where we spend more money on the planning paperwork for a single road than it costs other nations to build an entire mountain tunnel. This isn't a system accidentally strangled by red tape: it is a highly lucrative industry. A vast priesthood of consultants and lawyers is making a fortune they have no interest in the work being done. It is corruption by bureaucracy, and working-class communities are footing the bill for projects that never even see a spade in the ground. The absolute paralysis of modern Britain was laid bare in a recent parliamentary committee. A single witness gave them the truth with both barrels, exposing the administrative vampires sucking public money dry while the work goes undone. The details are an insult to every community waiting for homes, decent transport, and cheaper energy. Take the Lower Thames Crossing. The planning application alone has swallowed more than a quarter of a billion pounds. For that exact same amount, Norway actually constructed the world’s longest road tunnel. We spent it on paper, and we have not even turned a sod of earth. This is a permission state eating itself alive. Look at HS2, the most expensive railway line on earth. Part of the reason it cost so much is that we are spending £121 million on a specific "bat tunnel" to protect a few hundred bats living in a nearby wood, a wood the line does not even pass through. Look at Hinkley Point C, the most expensive nuclear power station in human history. For eight years, developers locked in a multi-million-pound wrangle with regulators over installing an underwater "fish disco", an acoustic deterrent to stop fish swimming into the pipes. 20 years ago, we built nuclear fleets at a fraction of the cost. Today, we sacrifice national infrastructure to the gods of endless compliance. The final absurdity is the plan to reopen just 3.3 miles of an existing railway line between Bristol and Portishead, a route already built but closed during the Beeching cuts. The planning application is 80,000 pages long. Over one thousand of those pages are about bats. We have created a system that trades in paper while the real economy rots. The working class pay the price for this institutional cowardice. They pay for it in soaring energy bills, missing homes, broken transport links, and a country that cannot build the future it keeps promising. Protecting the environment is vital, but drowning ourselves in paper is not environmentalism. A system that takes 80,000 pages to clear three miles of existing track is broken. It is not governance: it is managed decline with a clipboard. It's the bureaucratic vampires drinking the country's wealth...