Archives

January

• 01-26-23

  Bringing Growing Employers and Mixed Use to a Former General Electric Site in Fort Wayne, Indiana

  After nearly eight years, workers are returning to a former General Electric factory in Fort Wayne. A complex financial package helped create a new home for one of Indiana’s largest employers at this postindustrial site in the U.S. Midwest.

• 01-25-23

  Finding Hopeful Signs from COP27 for Commercial Real Estate

  A ULI webinar in December focused on the role of commercial real estate in fulfilling the vision of the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with leading companies pledging to net-zero operations as soon as 2025.

• 01-23-23

  UL Interview: Katie Maslechko and Chandler Hogue, Co-Chairs of the Young Leaders Group Steering Committee

  In 2021, the ULI Americas Young Leaders Group (YLG) Steering Committee was formed to better support and connect the more than 50 YLG district council cohorts in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Urban Land spoke with cochairs Chandler Hogue, director of Gemdale USA Corporation in Pasadena, California, and Katie Maslechko, director of development for Beedie in Vancouver, British Columbia, about how the committee works to empower its members to contribute to ULI and help shape the future of the built environment.

• 01-23-23

  UL10: Public/Private Partnership Projects

  Ten projects leverage public and private resources to realize complex new developments.

• 01-23-23

  Remembering ULI Key Leader Peter Bedford

  Peter Bedford of Napa, California, a ULI Trustee, Foundation Governor, Executive Committee member, and leader of the Institute and industry, passed away in early January. Since joining ULI in 1980, Bedford was active in all aspects of the Institute and was generous with his time and resources. 

• 01-19-23

  Acclaimed Architect Gene Kohn Named ULI Life Trustee

  Longtime ULI Trustee A. Eugene (Gene) Kohn has been elected a ULI Life Trustee by the ULI Global Governing Trustees, the first architect to receive the honor.

• 01-18-23

  In Brief: U.S. Convenience Store Count Inched Up in 2023, Breaking Four-Year Decline

  There are 150,174 convenience stores operating in the United States, a 1.5 percent increase from a year earlier, reversing a four-year decline, according to the 2023 NACS/NielsenIQ Convenience Industry Store Count.

• 01-13-23

  In the Land of Broken Deals: Four Key Commercial Real Estate Lending Trends for 2023

  For grizzled veterans of commercial real estate, the return to a “negative leverage” environment may have been unforeseen but surely was not unique.

• 01-13-23

  Winter 2023 Issue of Urban Land

  The Winter 2023 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Exacting Standards: Outlook for property and development in 2023.”

• 01-12-23

  UL Interview: A Deep Dive on Deepblocks, Bringing Demographic Data to Pro Forma Modeling

  Deepblocks brings together the core components of the real estate development process—zoning, brokerage, architecture, design, construction, and so on—into one single process guided by artificial intelligence.