Neil Block

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Neil Block

@neilblock

Excelsior and other superlatives

Los Angeles, City of Angels Katılım Ekim 2009

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Neil Block@neilblock·11h

@rocknsock4 When mandates + requirements stack up, only large developers financed by large banks can fund new projects. Those large banks demand large-format retail to support their financing stack. This has nothing to do with your or my preferences about the “kind”. Just how financing works

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Herbert 2028@rocknsock4·11h

@neilblock Nobody said anything about requiring a Walgreens in a building. You obvi are not from around here and have no concept about what kind of commercial is on what kind of street. But you are very confident.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray·1d

SB 79 hasn't even taken effect yet. Wiener dedicated seven years to passing the largest upzoning in California history, fighting the biggest special interests in Sacramento, securing bipartisan support, scrutinizing the details, and passing it with a razor thin 51% margin.

Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress@saikatc

In the words of Ezra Klein: "If they don’t deliver the housing, it does not matter how many laws you pass."

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Neil Block@neilblock·11h

@Sicilyann @MoebiusMichelle Power transmission is not data transmission 🤷‍♂️

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Jenna Ferrari Maggio@Sicilyann·11h

@neilblock @MoebiusMichelle Transmit all the data from data(surveillance) center

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MichMoby@MoebiusMichelle·17h

Coachella, CA. Huge Data Center proposed. The city officials are promoting it and wish to approve it, but there is a huge PUBLIC outrage taking place.

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Neil Block@neilblock·11h

@rocknsock4 @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt How so? “Set aside 5,000 square feet for a mandate” doesn’t matter what the mandate is

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Herbert 2028@rocknsock4·11h

@neilblock @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt Because it is a magnitude of difference in cost.

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Neil Block@neilblock·11h

@Sicilyann @MoebiusMichelle Looks like a Georgia state power utility is using eminent domain to build new transmission lines

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Jenna Ferrari Maggio@Sicilyann·11h

@neilblock @MoebiusMichelle The state of Georgia. A million a house but it never covers the true value. People are up in arms. It destroyed and polluted the water. Plus in farming it takes away future income.

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Neil Block@neilblock·11h

@rocknsock4 @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt How is “requiring commercial” not the same as “requiring IZ”?

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Herbert 2028@rocknsock4·11h

@neilblock @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt Please...... Restrictive zoning, inclusionary housing, permitting fees, and permitting delays is why he have a 40 year housing deficit. Requiring commercial on a commercial street is not one of them........

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Neil Block@neilblock·12h

@rocknsock4 @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt Making demands of a property owner that voluntarily wants to pay to build housing, such that the result is “waiting for a different project” is exactly why we’re in a 40 year housing deficit

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Herbert 2028@rocknsock4·12h

@neilblock @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt I'm good with requiring commercial on the main commercial streets of cities. If that is the breaking point it probably doesn't pencil at all and I would rather wait for a different project.

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Neil Block@neilblock·12h

@Sicilyann @MoebiusMichelle I’d love to see a single data center in the US that procured land using eminent domain

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Jenna Ferrari Maggio@Sicilyann·12h

@MoebiusMichelle I wonder which farmer sold out, unless it was eminent domain.

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Neil Block@neilblock·12h

@rocknsock4 @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt Requiring commercial would just make it not pencil, & not get built at all. We need to reduce the underlying costs and regs, so projects don’t have to be these massive institutional behemoths to get done. The more demands we make, the more expensive to build, bigger banks needed

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Herbert 2028@rocknsock4·12h

@neilblock @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt I know it is an economic loss. I'm just pissed that SoPas didn't require it on their main street.

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Neil Block@neilblock·12h

@rocknsock4 @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt This is why you’re starting to see more bottom-up developments where Safeway and Costco are developing housing because they’re their own major chain tenant

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Neil Block@neilblock·12h

@rocknsock4 @animalcircuits @mnolangray @hanlonbt Once you hit a certain size, unless you have a pre-sold major chain tenant, commercial isn’t viable. Large projects demand institutional creditors with more complex stacks, so developers need a) larger commercial spaces to b) attract stable chain tenants, or just do the housing

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Neil Block@neilblock·15h

@rightofwhey @SinaiLawFirm Probably on the least-worst end; BH is 65% multifamily

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Josh@rightofwhey·15h

@SinaiLawFirm How does Beverly Hills rank?

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Real Estate Lawyer@SinaiLawFirm·16h

Worst to least-worst LA jurisdictions for landlords 1. Weho 2. Los Angeles 3. Pasadena 4a. Unincorporated LA 4b. Culver City 5. Santa Monica 6. Long Beach 7. Inglewood 8. AB 1482 cities

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Neil Block@neilblock·15h

@SinaiLawFirm @imthewalruz I just learned recently that it’s unincorporated!

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Real Estate Lawyer@SinaiLawFirm·16h

@imthewalruz MDR is city of Los Angeles

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Neil Block@neilblock·16h

@lacherbauer @fynmere @chi_urbanist @cta iirc even the new L flyovers are buttressed by steel in this same style

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Alexander Lacherbauer@lacherbauer·16h

@fynmere @chi_urbanist @cta These should be replace by a modern concrete elevated structure.

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Fynmere (Peter)@fynmere·17h

Sometimes functional design is (in its own right) a form of industrial art. These Chicago "L" trusses support rail between Armitage and North Avenue Stations. Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. This L line is over 119 years old.

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Neil Block@neilblock·1d

@Hill_Wagan @TheBroskiUSA @jbarro @MattZeitlin Is there a zoning law somewhere that requires the construction of denser housing?

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Hill Wagan@Hill_Wagan·1d

@TheBroskiUSA @jbarro @MattZeitlin you can weaponize zoning to require denser housing near the beach, and outlaw most private beaches so that the value of the property comes down.

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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·1d

This is why “experiences” will get essentially infinitely expensive, they’re not making more Knicks and the number of guys with the means to do this far far far outstrips supply

@jason@Jason

Heading to Cleveland for Knicks game 🫡

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Neil Block@neilblock·1d

@TheBroskiUSA @jbarro @MattZeitlin If only there were a way to build more housing on a single lot. Oh well!

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Konrad@TheBroskiUSA·1d

@jbarro @MattZeitlin Beachfront property cant be solved

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Neil Block@neilblock·1d

@manchatz @Noahpinion Because excess deaths are excess. If you have a baseline of X people dying of a cause (like heat) every single year, that’s part of the baseline, not the excess

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Roberto@manchatz·1d

@Noahpinion How can you save 100000 lives when the highest excess deaths in the EU in 2022 (worst year) was 60000? US official counts mostly reflect deaths explicitly coded as heatrelated on death certificates (a method EPA says likely undercounts).

Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 English

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion·2d

Economists estimate that if Europeans used AC as much as Americans do, it would save up to 100,000 European lives EVERY YEAR. But I guess saving face on Elon Musk's social media app is more important than 100,000 lives.

Steve McCormick@Quasilocal

How can someone who markets himself as some kind of intellectual, with over half a million followers on here, post this same old silly misinformed take that gets posted a million times every summer

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Neil Block@neilblock·1d

@Darvino_Boom @_rotimia Arrests =/= incarceration. Haven’t cops spent the last 6 years complaining that DAs don’t actually prosecute, and judges don’t actually sentence their arrestees?

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Darvino Boom@Darvino_Boom·2d

@_rotimia uh oh. better give more of your money to the cops

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Rotimi Adeoye@_rotimia·2d

It’s important to be able to say abolishing the police and prisons were terrible ideas politically and substantively, while also supporting Medicare for All, a federal jobs guarantee, higher minimum wages, and zero dollars for Israel. Those positions are not contradictory.

Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

@GregTSargent I received the memo that we’re no longer talking about moderating or moving to the center. I just think it is helpful to take specific things Dems have said or done in the past that voters disagreed with and start saying things they agree with instead. slowboring.com/p/shmoderation…

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Neil Block@neilblock·1d

@nolan_denker @zyudhishthu The city’s own design standards wouldn’t let anyone build like this again. Why would a developer even try if they’re going to have to pay to fight for something that is now banned?

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Nolan Denker@nolan_denker·1d

@zyudhishthu That’s all over the city. It just hasn’t been filled with corporate buildings yet.

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Zak Yudhishthu@zyudhishthu·1d

You walk around Rogers Park for the day and it’s like huh… I guess they really did aesthetically perfect moderate density apartments…

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Neil Block@neilblock·1d

@georgeregnery @mnolangray More people in LA were killed last year in car crashes than were murdered

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George Regnery@georgeregnery·1d

@mnolangray murders and car thefts - those will always be reported. Where do they stand?

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray·1d

Considering 911 in Los Angeles will put you on hold and drop the call unless you tell them there's a fire, it doesn't surprise me that reported crime is down?

Los Angeles Times@latimes

L.A. is safer than it's been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor's race latimes.com/california/sto…

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Neil Block@neilblock·1d

@Fawwwwwwwwwwwwk @mnolangray Feel free to look up the data, but do you logically think that traffic dropped by 80% and only started recovering to *half* of pre-COVID levels in 2024? Is that your experience on the roads?

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.@Fawwwwwwwwwwwwk·1d

@mnolangray Your genius graph doesnt account for how many people were on the roads before after & during the covid years . Also police are financially motivated to report crime because thats how they get budget increases, bonuses, etc

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