Rachel MacCleery

Rachel MacCleery is co–executive director of the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate.

Developers and buyers create new models for housing that hold the promise of a more environmentally friendly, connected, and multigenerational way of living.
How to make sure that infrastructure gets the funding and attention they need took center stage during discussions at the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Agenda.
Special assessments, which tie property taxes directly to benefits, are being used in some of the country’s highest-profile transit projects.
When it comes to planning and funding metropolitan transit systems, regional cooperation and buy-in is essential, said panelists at ULI’s Fall Meeting in Denver. Speakers from Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Denver, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle talked about what it takes to get support for—and votes to fund—transit.
The new federal transportation bill presents both promise and peril for people interested in thriving urban places, said panelists at a session yesterday during ULI’s Fall Meeting in Denver.
On July 6, representatives of ULI joined other transportation leaders at the White House for the signing by President Obama of MAP-21, the two-year reauthorization of the federal transportation program.
A new transportation law maintains federal funding for existing programs and includes several provisions that may be beneficial to smart growth policies. While the new law, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, doesn’t deliver on all of the changes recommended by the Urban Land Institute, its short time horizon provides hope for progress.
An infill transit station, built with significant private sector funding, helped transform a desolate swath of Washington, D.C., into a vibrant, vital, mixed-use neighborhood.
In Utah, business leaders have helped propel the region’s full-speed-ahead investment in transit and connecting infrastructure.
At the 2011 Fall Meeting in L.A., trustee James Curtis divulged the three main takeaways of the ULI/Curtis Regional Infrastructure Initiative—a project intended to move the needle on infrastructure.
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