Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️

California Forever

@jansramek

Founder & CEO, @CAForever. Raised $1bn+ to build a new city on 100+ square miles an hour north of SF/SV. Join the call to break ground in 2026! Link below.

Solano, California californiaforever.com/breakgroundnow Joined June 2012

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Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek Jul 30

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?"

Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek Jul 19

100% right. We moved to Chicago for a year in 2022 just to experience one of America’s great cities and lived in Wicker Park. One of the most underrated neighborhoods in America. It’s awesome. Great memories.

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist Verified account @UrbanCourtyard Jul 19

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.

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Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek Jul 17

Friendly challenge accepted!

California is too beautiful, too important, too full of incredible people and institutions to give up on.

There is nothing like it in the world.

“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”

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Dustin Walper Verified account @DustinWalper Jul 17

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.
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Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek Jun 7

My spicy take at the Reagan National Economic Forum debate about manufacturing was simple.

If we have degrees in Community Studies or Environmental Sociology...

...then let's give degrees to welders and electricians, who do work that's both way harder and way more useful.

Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek May 20

The biggest shipyard in China and the biggest shipyard in South Korea both fit inside the Solano Shipyard.

6.5 miles of waterfront on a federal deep-water channel used by Panamax class, destroyer-sized ships.

There are 365,000 skilled workers within 50 miles.

Just sayin'.

Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ Verified account @mercoglianos May 20

Latest shipbuilding numbers are out from BRS and they are not good.

China had gone from 51% in 2022 to 70.9% in 2025.

That is from 2,107 ships to 4,055.

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