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ULI’s Greenprint Center for Building Performance is excited to announce that four District Councils and three National Councils have been selected to participate in the second Net Zero Imperative Cohort. Thanks to the generosity of financial donations from ULI members through the ULI Foundation, the program offers grants for technical assistance and ongoing implementation support to a selection of global cities to help accelerate efforts toward net zero.

In September, ULI hosted subject matter experts on the potential impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act on the commercial real estate industry. Panelists discussed the tax incentives, deductions and credits geared to encourage building owners to deploy clean energy and energy efficiency projects and how various sectors and industries plan to participate in this opportunity.

The Fall 2022 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Changing Locations: Transit-rich Destinations Embrace a Hybrid Future.”

New Land Enterprises is leasing up Ascent MKE, the tallest mass timber building in the world at 25 stories, in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

6 strategic ways to foster and consolidate the use of green financing tools.

Dan Noble, president and chief executive officer of HKS, argues Texas has tremendous potential to lead the world in transitioning to clean energy.

The Dodge Momentum Index, a monthly measure of the initial report for nonresidential building projects, improved 5.7 percent in September from the revised August reading. In September, the commercial component of the index rose 2.9 percent, while the institutional component also increased, seeing a double-digit gain of 11.7 percent.

Six developments from around the world have been selected as winners of the 2022 ULI Global Awards for Excellence. This year’s winners include two from North America, two from Europe, and two from the Asia Pacific region.

Total commercial and multifamily mortgage borrowing and lending are expected to fall to $766 billion this year, down 14 percent from 2021 totals. This is according to an updated baseline forecast released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The U.S. has been hit with 15 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first nine months of 2022, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

How transit-rich destinations create more choice, freedom, and convenience in the post-pandemic city.

Ten health care buildings draw on the healing powers of nature.

Bringing promising graduate students into ULI product councils is part of developer Steve Chamberlin’s grand ambition to boost education at all levels.

Interviews were conducted in July 2022 as part of a series designed to celebrate park visionaries and share inspiring and practical insights into their perspectives, challenges, and advice. Follow the series to learn from developers, planners, and other leaders creating innovative parks.

Callie Persic is a development manager with the Belfast City Council, leading Belfast’s Connectivity Programme and city center project, “A Bolder Vision for Belfast.”

The Oregon Mass Timber Coalition was recently awarded a $41.4-million grant application led by the Port of Portland from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The grant will be used to expand the production and use of mass timber to address three significant issues across Oregon: the worsening housing shortage, the increasing threat of wildfires, and the creation of good-paying jobs in communities still recovering from the pandemic. Anyeley Hallová is one of ULI’s leaders in the Pacific Northwest helping to spread the adoption of mass-timber commercial buildings.

Rising interest rates have not derailed a steady pipeline of merger and acquisition activity in commercial real estate—at least not yet. The sector has seen a number of mega-mergers announced this year but not well above the historical average.

Real estate executive Preston Butcher and his wife, Carolyn Butcher, have donated $1.5 million to the ULI Foundation to create the ULI Homeless to Housed Initiative to identify and disseminate best practices that enable communities to provide housing for people experiencing homelessness.

In a recent webinar hosted by ULI’s Urban Resilience program, panelists reflected on their experiences implementing physical climate-risk assessments in their businesses. The webinar highlighted how to leverage the report’s findings on physical risk data analytics products to better evaluate climate risk in the land use industry.

A recent ULI webinar explored how property managers must engage their tenants to achieve carbon reduction and other building-wide goals driven by environmental, social, and governance initiatives.

ULI members and community leaders are creating parks across North America that support health, social equity, climate resilience, and real estate success. Read profiles of selected ULI Americas Awards for Excellence winners and finalists.

A new ULI report explores the social, environmental, and economic benefits of creative placemaking, along with successful case studies in the United States.

Vincent Lo, a longtime supporter of ULI in Hong Kong and China, has been named a Life Trustee, the 20th person so honored and the second in the Asia Pacific region.

A recent ULI webinar focused on innovative and sustainable development approaches at The Point in Draper, Utah, just south of Salt Lake City. Called a “generational opportunity and unlike anything else done in the state,” The Point is a large brownfield situated near Silicon Slopes, a fast-growing technological hub, and four major universities.

As climate change worsens and the intensity of extreme weather–related events increases, meeting modern building codes may not be enough. Municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and industry groups are developing climate resilience design standards and tools, some of which are required or incentivized for publicly funded projects, and others of which may become expected or required for commercial real estate transactions.

The 2022 ULI Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index analyzes home attainability, both for ownership and rent, in 28 cities in five countries in the Asia Pacific region including Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. These countries have a combined population of approximately 1.8 billion or 21 percent of the world’s population.

Kartini Omar is group director of parks development and Jurong Lake Gardens at the National Parks Board of Singapore. This interview was conducted in June as part of a series designed to celebrate park visionaries and share inspiring and practical insights into their perspectives, challenges, and advice.

Internationally acclaimed Chicago architect and Studio Gang founder, known for bringing a sustainable approach to tall buildings, to receive the prestigious ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.

The $99.5 billion increase in commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding in the second quarter was the second largest quarterly rise since the inception of MBA’s data series in 2007.

The ULI Asia Pacific Summit, held in Hong Kong and livestreamed in late August, devoted considerable time to questions of climate resilience, but one panel in particular focused on building cooperative community resilience in Asia.