Recent Articles

• ULI Report: Property Values Increasingly Threatened by Extreme Weather

  June 30, 2014

  The commercial real estate industry is failing to address the consequences of the extreme weather events that are a rising threat to property values, according to a ULI Europe report.

• San Francisco’s Bayview Plans for Resilience at the Neighborhood Level

  San Franciscans assume that one day an earthquake will hit their city hard, thanks to the geologic fault line that runs below it. But one neighborhood leader has taken lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Los Angeles’ riots, and the Northridge earthquake to prepare.

• Resilience, Affordability Efforts Could Be Hurt by Bay Area’s Referendum

  June 16, 2014

  With the vote on San Francisco’s waterfront height limit resolved last week, it’s time for residents to move on to more pressing waterfront issues: namely, rising sea levels.

• Advisory Panel Makes Resilience Recommendations in Coastal Maine

  June 12, 2014

  A resilience-themed ULI Advisory Services panels in Portland and South Portland focused on making the two cities’ waterfronts resilient in the face of climate change.

• A Flexible Design Showcase: CBRE’s World Headquarters in Los Angeles

  June 9, 2014

  Inside the brokerage giant’s new WELL-certified commercial office space.

• Housing Helps Make Colorado One of the Healthiest States

  June 2, 2014

  Developers in Colorado—which has a statewide vacancy rate of just 4.5 percent—are responding to increased demands from millennials and baby boomers for housing focused on healthy and intergenerational living, said Patrick Coyle, director of the state’s housing division, at the closing general session of the ULI Housing Opportunity 2014 conference in Denver.