Gideon Berger

Fall Meeting
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Infrastructure
Video: ULI Rose Fellowship Mayors Discuss How to Build 21st Century Cities
America’s central cities are using land use planning and economic development initiatives to improve the quality of life that cities can offer residents and businesses and to be more competitive in the 21st Century.
November 14, 2011
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Gideon Berger
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Economy, Market & Trends
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Industry Sectors
Mayor Lee Calls PPPs and Redevelopment Keys to San Francisco’s Economic Future
San Francisco is using private/public partnerships to transform formerly blighted areas into the city’s new economic engines, according to Mayor Edwin M. Lee on a recent visit to the Urban Land Institute as the inaugural speaker for the ULI “Urban Innovators” series, launched as part of ULI’s 75th anniversary. Read what successful measures Mayor Lee highlighted in private/public partnerships and redevelopment to help create new economic engines in San Francisco.
October 10, 2011
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Gideon Berger
Public
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Economy, Market & Trends
How Will Big Box Retail Affect D.C.?
On September 8, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted a panel discussion on how big-box development is affecting that city’s planning, land use, transportation, and economy as part of its DC Builds lecture series. Read how the opening of four new Wal-Mart stores—estimated to bring in a combined $200 million a year in sales—is poised to affect D.C.’s retail leakage problem.
September 21, 2011
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Gideon Berger
Spring Meeting
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Economy, Market & Trends
Human Capital as an Economic Driver
Cities that will succeed in the 21st Century will have to be well managed, vibrant, educated, have raw materials, be entrepreneurial and have available capital, according to ULI senior resident fellow and former Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy. Read what he and other panelists offered as keys to building a city that will succeed.
May 19, 2011
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Gideon Berger
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Spring Meeting
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Retail/Entertainment
Future of Retail and Commercial Market Barometer
Under the “new normal” of retailing, shopping is an “experiential” activity done in more urban settings, there are lots of un- or under-employed consumers focused on prices, and Wall Street performance correlates with retail trends. Jon Eisen, managing principal of The Eisen Group in Washington, D.C., offered this take at an industry roundtable at ULI’s Spring Council Forum in Phoenix, Arizona. Read what panelists had to say about the future of retail and commercial property.
May 19, 2011
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Gideon Berger
Infrastructure
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Economy, Market & Trends
Charlotte’s Rose Center Land Use Challenge Offers Lessons about Transit
The main artery of Charlotte’s east side, Independence Boulevard has for decades been proposed for conversion to a freeway. But uncertainty about the transportation project’s timeframe as well as its final design has resulted in a trend of disinvestment on the city’s east side. Read what an expert panel from the ULI Rose Center suggested during a January study visit to make this plan succeed.
April 20, 2011
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Gideon Berger
Design and Planning
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Industry Sectors
ULI Rose Center Helping Houston with Redevelopment of Multifamily Housing, Neighborhood Revitalization
The ULI Rose Center invites the mayors of four cities to participate in the yearlong Daniel Rose Fellowship program, which begins at the ULI Fall Meeting. Read what the panel of experts who visited Houston, Texas, last December said in regard to that city’s attempts to stabilize declining neighborhoods by demolishing longstanding problem properties on the basis of health and safety violations.
March 16, 2011
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Gideon Berger
Capital Markets and Finance
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Development and Construction
The Making of Washington’s Biggest Deal: Constitution Square and the Art of Urban Development Today
It took a Canadian bank without exposure to the U.S. subprime mortgage market to save the biggest real estate deal in Washington, D.C., during the darkest days of the credit crisis. It was Walton Street’s relationship with the Canadian TD Bank that enabled it to get the financing it needed. Read about how it was accomplished and how it has performed.
October 16, 2010
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Gideon Berger
Infrastructure
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Development and Construction
Innovative Financing Tools to Support Mixed Income Transit Oriented Development
Complex new partnerships between philanthropic foundations, non-profit community development organizations, government and private lenders are emerging to provide much-needed financing for mixed-income transit oriented development in regions around the U.S., according to a panel at the Urban Land Institute’s October 2010 Fall Meeting and Urban Land Expo in Washington, D.C.
October 14, 2010
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Gideon Berger
Infrastructure
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Design and Planning
TOD Placemaking: Well-Designed TODs and Future Guidelines
High-speed rail could be a catalyst for community building in California if we are able to “unlearn” what we currently know about transit-orient development in the US and successfully develop new implementation tools based on international models, according to a panel of urban design and development experts at California’s High-Speed Rail TOD Marketplace. Read more about what the experts discussed at the session.
September 27, 2010
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Gideon Berger
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