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01-11-21
In Brief: Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities for 2020
The Villages, a retiree-focused community northwest of Orlando, in 2020 once again topped RCLCO’s listing of the 50 top-selling U.S. master-planned communities. Total new home sales among the communities were 20 percent higher in 2020 than the previous year, RCLCO reported.
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12-07-20
Real Estate Art: Advocating for Better Use of the Industry’s Support for Artist Communities
Smarter investments in art could benefit real estate developers and the communities in which they invest. In the long term, a well-designed art intervention will add value to the property and create impact.
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10-26-20
In Pursuit of Experience, Bangkok’s New Approach to Retail
Bangkok mastered the art of glitzy retail palaces. Now, authenticity is the favored currency.
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10-15-20
Three San Francisco developers discuss focusing on “what would work” in order to create the city’s Mission Bay mixed-use development, during the WLI session at the 2020 ULI Virtual Fall Meeting
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10-14-20
Housing Industry Finds Unexpected Strength in Certain Products in the Face of COVID-19 and Recession
Despite COVID-19 and the recession, the housing industry is seeing unexpected resilience in certain segments of the market, speakers said at the Housing Trends and Outlook session at the ULI Virtual Fall Meeting.
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10-13-20
Predicting Winners, Losers, and Long-Term Changes from the COVID-19 Experience
Prospects for economic recovery may be slow and uneven over the next couple of years, experts said during a State of the Industry panel at the 2020 ULI Virtual Fall Meeting.
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10-02-20
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum among Anchors Driving Downtown Development in Colorado Springs
Eight years after a ULI Advisory Services panel gathered in the shadow of Pikes Peak to brainstorm about revitalizing Colorado Springs, the recent opening of the $91 million U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in the southwest corner of downtown represents an important cornerstone of the city’s urban renewal effort while bolstering its identity as “Olympic City, USA.”
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09-28-20
Interview: ULI Visionaries in Urban Development Laureate Anthony A. Williams
Anthony “Tony” Williams, who served as the mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1999 to 2007, has been awarded the 2020 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.
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09-17-20
In Its 20th Year, ULI Los Angeles’s Urban Marketplace Looks at Progress and a Vision for the Future
ULI Los Angeles, celebrating the 20th year of its Urban Marketplace program, has launched a series of five online events around the theme of “A Reflection on Progress and a Vision for the Future,” with the first held in early September. The principal session consisted of a conversation between Michael Banner, president and CEO of Los Angeles LDC, and Miguel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, focusing on helping disadvantaged neighborhoods access capital and positive signs for the future.
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09-14-20
New World Development Betting Big on China’s Emerging Greater Bay Area
ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: Hong Kong real estate developer Adrian Cheng is investing heavily in China’s emerging Greater Bay Area, touted as the up-and-coming Silicon Valley and Wall Street of the East. During ULI Asia Pacific’s virtual REimagine conference, Cheng said that his company now controls a land bank of about 290 hectares (nearly 717 acres) in the region.