Archives

January

• 01-23-20

  Mass Timber’s Expanding Presence in the Commercial Building Industry

  Developers around the world who were first movers on buildings that use mass timber for both structural and design elements are seeing a growing wave of projects lining up before them. The regulatory environment is adapting while the business model for use of mass timber is expanding across property types.

• 01-21-20

  ULI Product Council Outlook for Public/Private Partnerships

  How can public/private partnerships succeed in a politically fractious era?

• 01-21-20

  The Case for Achieving Climate Goals with All-Electric Development

  A ban on natural gas connections in new low-rise residences is effective January 1 in Berkeley, California. More cities are likely to follow. How are developers responding to the fossil fuel-free future?
  

• 01-21-20

  Boosting Property Values and Building Performance for Class B and C Office with Increased Energy Efficiency

  Improved energy efficiency of class B and C office buildings can be achieved with relatively simple, lower-cost measures that not only enhance building performance, but also boost property values to make the buildings more competitive with class A space, new ULI research shows.

• 01-14-20

  More Direct Flights, Ease of Doing Business Could Attract Companies to San Antonio

  Panelists talked about how the San Antonio region is faring versus other cities in Texas in attracting talented workers and corporate office tenants and where it can improve compared to cities of a similar size.

• 01-13-20

  Delivering on the Promise of Opportunity Zones

  With tax rules clarified, will the program deliver the promise of increasing development in underserved areas?
  

• 01-13-20

  Innovating in Retail and Hospitality for China’s Billion-Strong “Digital-First” Network

  China is a nation of more than 1 billion “digital-first” consumers, Jeffrey Towson, managing partner at Towson Group and a Peking University professor, said at a recent ULI event in Shanghai. Because these consumers are starting to act like an interconnected network—influencing each other and generating fresh ways of doing transactions—they are shaping how almost all companies do business.

• 01-13-20

  Midtown Miami Chosen as Site for 2020 ULI Hines Student Competition

  An area in Midtown Miami, split between the Wynwood and Edgewater neighborhoods, will be the study site for the 18th annual ULI Hines Student Competition.

• 01-10-20

  Survey: U.S. Economy and Real Estate Market Not Ready to Retire

  There is no end in sight for the long-lived U.S. economic and real estate market expansion, according to leading real estate economists. These projections are based on a special year-end version of the “ULI Real Estate Economic Forecast,” prepared by the ULI Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate. The forecast is based on a survey completed in December by 27 economists/analysts at 24 leading real estate organizations.

• 01-06-20

  Rethinking Real Estate: What the Past Teaches Us about the Future of Land Use

  Speaking at an event in New York City, Dror Poleg, a former real estate and technology executive and co-chair of ULI New York’s Technology and Innovation Council, said shifts in real estate often result from overlooked factors that alter its value, beginning in the faraway emergence of landlord-tenant relations out of feudalism and stretching to the innovations of today.