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Brett Widness

Brett Widness is the managing editor of Urban Land. Previously, he worked in online editorial at the Washington Post, AARP, and AOL, now part of Yahoo!

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Economy, Market & Trends
Urban Land’s Most Popular Articles for 2016
As we close the books on the year, we wanted to look back on the topics that resonated with the readers of Urban LandOnline in the past year. Here are the top five most popular articles from 2016.
December 19, 2016
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Economy, Market & Trends
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News
In Brief: U.S. Renters Have Higher Credit Scores, More Access to Debt
According to a report from American credit bureau TransUnion, U.S. renters, as a group, are getting older, but they also have better credit scores and greater access to debt than previously.
December 15, 2016
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Economy, Market & Trends
Nov/Dec Issue of Urban Land Is Available for Download
Take a full copy of Urban Landalong on your tablet! The latest issue of the magazine is now available for download through the Urban Landapp. Top stories: Introducing this year’s Urban Land40 under 40; “Global Capital: Outlook for 2017;” and “Energy & Resilience: Practical Ways to Boost Return.”
December 12, 2016
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Resilience and Sustainability
Video: The Well-Tempered City and the Future of Urban Life
Speaking at the 2016 ULI Fall Meeting, Jonathan Rose, founder and president of the Jonathan Rose Companies, discussed creating a higher purpose for cities as outlined in his new book, The Well-Tempered City.
November 23, 2016
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Development and Construction
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Retail/Entertainment
Developer’s Perspective on Real Estate’s Hardest Decision: Sell or Hold
Speaking at the 2016 ULI Fall Meeting, John McNellis, partner at McNellis Partners, a northern California–based developer, shared part of his perspective, as captured in his book, Making It in Real Estate. For those looking to get into the real estate business, McNellis advised trying to take a 20-year approach to your career.
November 3, 2016
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Economy, Market & Trends
Sept/Oct Issue of Urban Land Is Available for Download
The latest issue of the magazine is now available for download in the Urban Landapp. The cover package for this issue is titled “Dallas: Restless for growth in north Texas.” Other topics include “Saving Energy: Inside the Empire State Building,” “Asia Pacific: Capital on the Move,” and “Europe: Brexit Sinks In.”
October 12, 2016
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Economy, Market & Trends
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News
White House Recognizes Need for Creative Policies to Facilitate More Housing in Growing Cities
A new “Housing Developers Toolkit” released by the White House outlines a range of zoning and local policy changes that can spur development of affordable housing. Among them are the elimination of off-street parking requirements, which the paper states “generally impose an undue burden on housing development, particularly for transit-oriented or affordable housing.”
October 11, 2016
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Capital Markets and Finance
Capital, Shipping Flows Likely to Buoy Development in U.S. Southeast
Many macroeconomic trends continue to favor U.S. commercial real estate as an asset class, Jimmy Hinton, a managing director of research at HFF, told attendees at a ULI South Carolina capital markets conference in early September.
September 12, 2016
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Infrastructure
Audio: Highway Removal and the Plan to Put Dallas Back Together
ULI member and urban planner Patrick Kennedy recently appeared on the Streetsblog podcast, Talking Headways, to discuss Kennedy’s highway removal campaign for Dallas, known as “A New Dallas,” and the recent Texas DOT CityMap Plan to re-imagine the freeways and roads in the city’s downtown.
September 12, 2016
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Audio: The Challenges of Unbuilding a City
National Public Radio’s podcast Planet Moneyrecently looked at why demolishing a single block of abandoned homes in Baltimore took more than a decade.
August 29, 2016
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