New Developments
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Member Survey: Back to the Office
August 22, 2022 In early August, Urban Land asked readers how their organizations are adapting to the evolving landscape of COVID-19. 100 percent of the respondents said they were going into the office at least one day a week, with 37.5 percent saying they are back full time in the office. -
Michael Spies’s $350,000 Gift Supports New ULI Effort to Involve Artists in the Real Estate Development Process
August 15, 2022 With help from a $350,000 gift from former global governing trustee Michael Spies, ULI is launching an innovative program in which artists will be invited to work with developers in the early stages of real estate projects. The Art in Place program will help developers form creative partnerships with artists in fields ranging from painting and sculpture to dance, theater, music, and even culinary arts.
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Economy, Market & Trends Product Council Outlook for Travel
What trends are influencing business and leisure travel in the wake of the pandemic? Members of ULI’s travel-oriented product councils discuss the continued fallout from the pandemic; ways the hospitality industry is renovating, repositioning, and reflagging properties in response to COVID-related changes; the rising interest in environmental, social, and governance issues; innovations in hospitality and travel experiences; and other trends.
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Asia Pacific Fairview Park: A Brief History of Hong Kong’s First and Largest Suburban Community
Endless skyscrapers, narrow streets, hanging neon signs amidst the concrete jungle. Welcome to Hong Kong’s urban fabric, both fascinating in its vibrancy, and overwhelming in its density. But in this hyper-dense city lies Fairview Park, a pioneering residential development in complete contrast to Hong Kong’s urbanity.
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Sustainability
What the Historic U.S. Climate Bill Could Mean for the Real Estate Industry
Over the weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which now heads to the House of Representatives. The bill aims to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030. It also holds the potential to transform the built environment—but experts say that depends on how much state and local governments work with the private and nonprofit sectors to use the federal investments as a catalyst.
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Economy, Market & Trends
Six Themes That Will Shape Travel in the Summer of 2022
Two years after the start of the global pandemic, the outlook for the U.S. hotel industry is decidedly positive. STR, a CoStar Group company and a global leader in hospitality analytics, continues to report ever-improving metrics in the United States. The prospects for the sector are embodied in six themes.
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Economy, Market & Trends Armchair Tour: Two Texas Master-Planned Communities Evolve Beyond Office Uses at Las Colinas and Cypress Waters
Attendees of ULI’s 2022 Fall Meeting in Dallas will have the chance to visit two master-planned communities northwest of the city’s downtown.
New Developments
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Member Survey: Back to the Office
August 22, 2022 In early August, Urban Land asked readers how their organizations are adapting to the evolving landscape of COVID-19. 100 percent of the respondents said they were going into the office at least one day a week, with 37.5 percent saying they are back full time in the office. -
Michael Spies’s $350,000 Gift Supports New ULI Effort to Involve Artists in the Real Estate Development Process
August 15, 2022 With help from a $350,000 gift from former global governing trustee Michael Spies, ULI is launching an innovative program in which artists will be invited to work with developers in the early stages of real estate projects. The Art in Place program will help developers form creative partnerships with artists in fields ranging from painting and sculpture to dance, theater, music, and even culinary arts.
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Sponsored Posts
A Greener Future Through Reimagined Development
Sponsored Content: The old adage, “Leave it better than you found it,” is central to Hilco Redevelopment Partners’ vision of transforming old, run-down areas and making the economy, environment, and community more sustainable.
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Economy, Market & Trends
ULI Terwilliger Center Releases 2022 Housing Attainability Index
Building on the 2020 pilot and 2021 update focused on the COVID-19 pandemic’s implications for housing, the 2022 edition of the index explores the attainability implications of shifts in housing demand and regional competitiveness due to demographic changes, pandemic-influenced employer and employee location decisions, and the high cost of both building and finding homes in the largest and most economically vibrant regions.
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Sustainability How the Real Estate Industry Can Advance Decarbonization Despite the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Even if utilities transition more slowly toward renewable energy sources as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, the movement toward all-electric buildings is still as important as ever.
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Capital Markets How C-PACE Financing Is Powering Green Historic Renovations
Thirty-eight states have passed legislation authorizing Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing to date. While C-PACE has been around for more than 20 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated its adoption.
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Economy, Market & Trends Vienna Ranked World’s Most Livable City
The lean, green Austrian capital is back on top of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s list of most livable cities.
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Economy, Market & Trends
Reversing the U.S. Housing Shortage
The U.S. housing affordability crisis has both sharpened and spread significantly in the last decade: once largely confined to the coasts and the Southwest, it now extends to nearly every state. The number of metropolitan areas that underproduced housing rose from 100 to 169 between 2012 to 169 in 2019; nationally, underproduction nearly doubled in the same time period, from 1.65 to 3.79 million units.
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Sustainability Lighting the Way to Net Zero in Asia’s Largest Cities
Technology and contributions from all stakeholders will be crucial if Asia’s cities are to meet their net zero targets. Earlier this year, a series of three webinars organized by ULI China Mainland covered the efforts and challenges of several cities and organizations around the world to give some focus to the efforts in Beijing, which is one of the cities in ULI’s Net Zero Imperative initiative. The discussions also focused on the Chinese capital as well as Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Sustainability What Cities Can Learn from Minneapolis’s Commitment to Community
Bringing together a committee of diverse stakeholders, from community members to design and development professionals, the Root District is an incredible opportunity to deliver a model neighborhood, as defined by the people who live there.
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Planning & Design Using Biomimicry to Design Smart Buildings
How the Pinal County Attorney’s new office in Florence, Arizona, mimics desert wisdom.
Recent Articles
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Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus: A Model Legacy-City Innovation District
August 31, 2022The original purpose of Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus was to serve as an anchor district, similar to those in areas around universities, museums, hospitals, and other anchor institutions throughout America.
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Five U.S. District Councils Selected for New Cohort for Park Equity Program
August 30, 2022Five ULI District Councils across the United States have been selected to participate in a new program focused on advancing action on equity in parks and open space over a 12-month period. Through the District Council Cohort for Park Equity, local teams will engage in two-day Technical Assistance Panels that consider specific questions related to park equity and access in their communities. The program is supported by The JPB Foundation.
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Product Council Outlook for Travel
August 29, 2022What trends are influencing business and leisure travel in the wake of the pandemic? Members of ULI’s travel-oriented product councils discuss the continued fallout from the pandemic; ways the hospitality industry is renovating, repositioning, and reflagging properties in response to COVID-related changes; the rising interest in environmental, social, and governance issues; innovations in hospitality and travel experiences; and other trends.
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The Worth of Water: Becoming Water Wise in an Era of Water Scarcity
August 26, 2022Since potable water is in increasingly limited supply, reducing demand for water through water conservation, efficiency, and reuse generates social, environmental, and economic benefits for people, buildings, and communities.
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Coretrust’s Workplace Innovation Lab Showcases Advantages of Back to Office
August 24, 2022With a goal of helping lure people back to the office in light of the post-pandemic work environment, Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm Coretrust Capital Partners is showcasing new technology which creates a safe and inviting workplace in an historic building.
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Reversing the U.S. Housing Shortage
August 23, 2022The U.S. housing affordability crisis has both sharpened and spread significantly in the last decade: once largely confined to the coasts and the Southwest, it now extends to nearly every state. The number of metropolitan areas that underproduced housing rose from 100 to 169 between 2012 to 169 in 2019; nationally, underproduction nearly doubled in the same time period, from 1.65 to 3.79 million units.
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UL10: Green Hotels
August 22, 2022These 10 hotels embody environmental sensitivity plus energy and water efficiency.
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Member Survey: Back to the Office
August 22, 2022In early August, Urban Land asked readers how their organizations are adapting to the evolving landscape of COVID-19. 100 percent of the respondents said they were going into the office at least one day a week, with 37.5 percent saying they are back full time in the office.
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Five District Councils Selected for the Second Resilient Land Use Cohort
August 22, 2022ULI’s Urban Resilience program is excited to announce that five U.S. District Councils have been selected to participate in the second Resilient Land Use Cohort (RLUC). RLUC is a growing network of District Councils, including ULI staff, community representatives, and local ULI member advisers who advise on immediate resilience needs through technical assistance or advisory services and engage in regular peer-learning opportunities over an 18-month period to share strategies, resources, and best practices.
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Home Attainability Index Highlights U.S. Housing Underproduction and Economic Uncertainty for Workers
August 22, 2022A long-term trend of housing underproduction exacerbated by rising inflation and economic uncertainty threatens home attainability for millions of people across the United States, according to the 2022 Home Attainability Index, a comprehensive new study from the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing.
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Are You Asking the Right Questions About Office?
August 22, 2022Sponsored Content: How, where, and why offices are used and designed has constantly evolved for over 100 years. Yet no era unearthed more questions than today’s post-COVID world as firms and employees try to navigate the transformed office landscape. We will break down some common questions employers have and our answers to them.
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Moving to the Global Reporting Initiative for ESG Disclosure
August 17, 2022Sustainability has been a core value of The Swig Company since our founding more than 85 years ago and is woven into our company culture. We have been enthusiastic participants in Energy Star, LEED WELL, and WELL Health & Safety certifications, moving further toward futureproofing our buildings for sustainable operation.
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Fairview Park: A Brief History of Hong Kong’s First and Largest Suburban Community
August 15, 2022Endless skyscrapers, narrow streets, hanging neon signs amidst the concrete jungle. Welcome to Hong Kong’s urban fabric, both fascinating in its vibrancy, and overwhelming in its density. But in this hyper-dense city lies Fairview Park, a pioneering residential development in complete contrast to Hong Kong’s urbanity.
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Hotel-to-Housing Conversions Proliferate
August 15, 2022Pandemic travel bans shut down many old, obsolete hotels for good. Now, investors are creating new product—from temporary shelter to affordable and market-rate housing.
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Michael Spies’s $350,000 Gift Supports New ULI Effort to Involve Artists in the Real Estate Development Process
August 15, 2022With help from a $350,000 gift from former global governing trustee Michael Spies, ULI is launching an innovative program in which artists will be invited to work with developers in the early stages of real estate projects. The Art in Place program will help developers form creative partnerships with artists in fields ranging from painting and sculpture to dance, theater, music, and even culinary arts.
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Lighting the Way to Net Zero in Asia’s Largest Cities
August 15, 2022Technology and contributions from all stakeholders will be crucial if Asia’s cities are to meet their net zero targets. Earlier this year, a series of three webinars organized by ULI China Mainland covered the efforts and challenges of several cities and organizations around the world to give some focus to the efforts in Beijing, which is one of the cities in ULI’s Net Zero Imperative initiative. The discussions also focused on the Chinese capital as well as Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Initiative to Make a Bigger Deal Out of Small Development Visits San Antonio
August 12, 2022In late May, the Small-Scale Developer Forum (SSDF) celebrated its 10th year of convening. SSDF brings together over 80 attendees and speakers from all over the country—many returning time and again as the forum fills a void for real estate entrepreneurs focused on “doing development different.”
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Stakeholders Shaping a Shift in the Real Estate Industry to ESG Values
August 9, 2022Mapping the future of real estate finds the industry taking a different path than in the past, with companies redesigning their business models around ESG goals.
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What the Historic U.S. Climate Bill Could Mean for the Real Estate Industry
August 8, 2022Over the weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which now heads to the House of Representatives. The bill aims to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030. It also holds the potential to transform the built environment—but experts say that depends on how much state and local governments work with the private and nonprofit sectors to use the federal investments as a catalyst.
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Growth of ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance Exceeds 70 Members
August 8, 2022ULI Greenprint has announced that its membership has grown to include more than 70 private companies, demonstrating the real estate industry’s momentum toward and commitment to decarbonization. Through measurement, benchmarking, knowledge sharing, and implementation of best practices, ULI Greenprint members strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 for buildings under operational control.