In 2003, Andrew B. Turner was a senior at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, when a new interactive program that challenged students to create a development scenario for a local neighborhood made its debut. Nearly 15 years later, Turner is now a project director at Argent LLP, one of London’s most respected developers.
While its sustainable qualities are attracting developers and architects, so are the speed and cost-efficiency with which mass-timber buildings can be delivered to market, noted an expert panel at the recent ULI Washington Real Estate Trends conference, sometimes shaving 30 to 90 days off a construction schedule.
Since 2000, Washington, D.C., has added more than 100,000 residents as a robust job market has attracted people both domestically and from abroad. The city’s population is expected to reach 1 million by 2045. The influx of new residents—most of whom are high-wage earners—has placed enormous pressure on the city’s housing market and has created new urgency around the production of so-called missing middle housing types.
ULI Tampa Bay’s Realizing Resiliencereport offers recommendations for St. Petersburg to be climate resilient in ways that benefit all residents of the community, regardless of income.
ULI Hong Kong recently launched a chapter of the Women’s Leadership Initiative. In March, the chapter held its inaugural event, featuring a panel of women in the real estate who have balanced career advancement with family responsibilities and shared their experiences.
Immigrants have been and will continue to be a major source of U.S. housing demand and were critical to the recovery of housing markets after the 2009 recession, according to a report published by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing.
ULI Minnesota has launched the Healthy Communities Initiative, which proposes an ambitious capital improvement program for turning proposed freeway lids along the I-94 corridor into places that re-establish neighborhood connectivity, create economic opportunities for residents, and make new land available for civic and commercial uses.
How can the built environment facilitate connections between people? Improve the connections between cities and between public and private space? These are the questions posed by a report titled Connected Cities, published by global architecture firm Benoy and AsiaProperty. The report was launched during a recent event hosted by ULI Hong Kong.
ULI will sharpen the strategy of its Center for Sustainability to focus on programs and tools that provide real estate providers with actionable data to create value and improve environmental and economic performance of buildings and tenant spaces.
For the 2017 Spring Meeting, ULI is trying something a bit different: three concurrent sessions on Thursday, May 4, will be held outside the Washington State Convention Center at locations throughout Seattle, the 2017 ULI Spring Meeting host city.
