Kern Egan

@Carmahhawwari Do you do paid projects?

AI slides that actually don’t suck part 2 🕺

The stupid electric dirt bikes every kid in America is riding all over the roads need to be completely banned.

@GraemeEgan4 @PremierEventsU2 @DriggersTristan 🔥🔥🔥

Wrote a thing about AI and sponsorships if you're interested in those kind of things.

@TheStroBro @DallasAptGP I unfortunately know that because I live here. Wondering if there is still room for more price appreciation along trail areas given how much more connected they will become.

@KernEgan @DallasAptGP Some of the most expensive Real Estate in Dallas surrounds that lake.

There's a pattern that predicts where land values will reprice years before the cranes show up. New York saw it. Chicago saw it. Atlanta saw it. Dallas is next. Big cities across the country are facing the same dilemma. The suburbs keep growing while the urban core fights to keep up. People want walkability and community, but they're leaving for places that feel safer, cleaner, and easier to navigate. Meanwhile, cities like Dallas, Chicago, and Atlanta have big ambitions. They want to be world class. They want to attract people, businesses, and jobs. They want to keep companies from relocating to the suburbs. They want to convince young talent to live and work downtown instead of moving to Austin or Nashville or Phoenix. That takes money. Aging infrastructure needs replacing. New amenities need building. Public spaces need to compete with the best in the world. The tax base isn't shrinking. But it's not growing fast enough to fund those ambitions without raising rates. And raising rates just pushes more people and businesses out the door. There's another approach. Build infrastructure that makes land more valuable. Not highways. Not stadiums. Trails. It sounds almost too simple. But the math works. When you build a connected trail network, you create the walkability and community people are craving. Neighborhoods that were cut off become accessible. People start moving in instead of moving out. Land values rise. And when land values rise, tax revenue grows without raising anyone's rate. You can see this pattern in cities across the country, regardless of how well they're run otherwise. New York built the High Line. Property values within a few blocks jumped 35%. Whatever you think about New York's politics, that project worked. Chicago built The 606. Home prices along the trail spiked 48% compared to similar neighborhoods without access. Atlanta built the BeltLine. Developers have spent more than $9 billion building along it. The pattern holds whether the city is red, blue, or purple. Build the connection. Land reprices. Dallas is now running this experiment at the largest scale any American city has attempted. The Loop is a 50-mile trail circuit that will connect the Katy Trail, White Rock Lake, the Trinity Forest, Fair Park, the Design District, and Pleasant Grove into one continuous network. One network. Every quadrant. It looks like a park system. It functions like an economic engine. Here's how it works. When people can get from one neighborhood to another easily, both neighborhoods become more valuable. When they can't, values stay stuck. Highways and dead-end streets cut neighborhoods off from each other. Money stops flowing. Businesses can't reach customers. Land sits undervalued for decades. But when you remove those barriers, everything changes. People flow between neighborhoods. Retail follows. Restaurants follow. Employers follow. Land prices adjust to reflect the new reality. The Design District is proof that this works in Dallas, and that the Katy Trail wasn't a one-time fluke. A few years ago, the city built the Hi Line Connector, a short trail segment that plugged the Design District into the Uptown trail network. Before that connection, the Design District was an isolated pocket of warehouses and showrooms. Afterward, it became part of the Uptown ecosystem. The results were dramatic. Taxable value has climbed 383%. Developers started flipping their blueprints. Buildings now face the trail, not the street. That shift only happens when an amenity is powerful enough to move rents. South Dallas is next. A new 1,200-foot pedestrian bridge is about to open the Trinity Forest Spine Trail, connecting neighborhoods like Dolphin Heights and Parkdale to the rest of the city's trail network for the first time. These areas have been cut off for decades. The Trinity River, the railroad, and a tangle of highways kept them isolated. Property values stayed low because movement was hard. That's about to change. Every city that built a loop trail system saw the same result. Remove the barriers. Capital follows. The investors who understand this pattern are already moving. Trails aren't expenses. They're leading indicators. They tell you where land is about to reprice, years before the cranes show up. If you want to understand where Dallas is heading over the next decade, don't watch the skyline. Follow the trail.

@DallasAptGP Got it. Was wondering if there is still room for more residential price appreciation for that area given the trail expansion.

@KernEgan That section is almost entirely built out Red is what’s contemplated but not yet built

@michaelmiraflor We will also be posting for a creative director soon. multiplier.co/careers

Okay maybe I can be helpful here, since OP had a few helpful comments on both supply/demand side. If you are hiring OR if you are looking for work. Please post here with a link to your JD or link to your portfolio or LI profile, etc. Twitter do your magic 🪄

@michaelmiraflor Send me all the experiential marketing creatives (designers).

There is way too much great talent right now that is unemployed and under-employed. It's insane.

@readjack Wait. You’re a Hoosier too?

With the exception of every incredible play Antwaan Randle El made his final two seasons, the Hoosiers weren't much when I was there. But I sure did love this stadium :)

@readjack @CourtneyRCronin @Blingstein I wish I had taken better care of this one!

I might need to do a story on 90s Bulls posters like my stories on 90s Bulls merch, because that poster behind @CourtneyRCronin is taking me back. My brother @Blingstein had that one. readjack.substack.com/p/a-celebratio… readjack.substack.com/p/taco-trey-ke…

@readjack @maclennan_paul @WCGridiron Believe his agent had it and when he passed away the family put it up for auction. I was the only bid and it cost me about as much to ship it to Dallas as the cost of the scooter itself!

@KernEgan @maclennan_paul @WCGridiron WHAT??? Story??

Chicago sports photo hunt! I got 12 of these, with maybe a 13th. Who wants to take a shot? h/t @KernEgan @WCGridiron @HawleySports @Crayestout @paytonsun

@readjack @maclennan_paul @WCGridiron Seeing #9 reminded me to mention I own the scooter from the ad campaign he did with Honda.

@maclennan_paul @WCGridiron @KernEgan We're getting closer @KernEgan!

@readjack @maclennan_paul @WCGridiron Love following this!

@readjack Thank you very much and love your work. Attached is from the archives and I think sums up pretty well how Bears fans and myself are feeling right now.

@KernEgan Oh my goodness, that's incredible. My condolences to you and your family. Thank you for sharing this.

@readjack If anyone can identify everyone in this picture I figured it'd be you!

@readjack Ha, my "great aunt" was Mike Ditka's secretary. She passed away recently and I've stumbled across some great stuff, thanks to my cousin taking care of all of it.

@KernEgan Oh my goodness — when is this from?? This is a gem!

@LarryMayer I have one and have started to think about trying to get it signed by the guys. Remember the giveaway like it was yesterday.

If you're over 45 and love the Bears, you probably had the Black and Blues Brothers poster on your wall growing up. I talked to Tom Thayer and Jay Hilgenberg about the origins of the poster and how it become so iconic: chicagobears.com/news/how-1985-…

@Chicago_NFL I'm rooting for him but I'm not sure "scary good" is fair when looking at reps against back-ups.

Austin Booker in year two looks scary good. #DaBears