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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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Market Trends
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Emerging Trends
March/April Issue of Urban Land Is Available for Download
For those of you who have already downloaded the Urban Landapp for tablets and smartphones, the latest issue is now available. In addition to the Apple and Android app stores, you can now download the magazine on your Kindle Fire and Windows 8 devices.
April 20, 2015
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Capital Markets and Finance
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News
Commercial/Multifamily Originations Rose to $400 Billion in 2014
Commercial and multifamily mortgage bankers closed $399.8 billion worth of loans in 2014, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2014 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Annual Origination Volume Summation.
April 16, 2015
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Economy, Market & Trends
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News
New York Tops Walk Score’s 10 Most Walkable U.S. Cities
Walk Score, now owned by internet brokerage Redfin, has released its 2015 ranking of the most walkable U.S. cities with populations exceeding 300,000. New York, the nation’s most walkable city, has increased its lead over San Francisco, which came in second.
April 9, 2015
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Best Practices
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Innovation Districts & Corridors
Third Time’s a Charm for Jacksonville’s Crowdfunding Festival
Now in its third year, the OneSpark festival highlights entrepreneurial projects in both a juried competition and a popular vote in what is touted as the “world’s biggest crowdfunding festival.” There will be 555 official OneSpark creator projects this year.
April 6, 2015
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Economy, Market & Trends
Creating the Leading Urban Think Tank in the Sun Belt
Last fall, William Fulton, a former mayor and planner by training, left Southern California to take a new position at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University in Houston. Leveraging Rice’s strengths in computer science, architecture, civil engineering, and other disciplines, Fulton hopes to establish the leading urban think tank in the Sun Belt.
March 30, 2015
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Economy, Market & Trends
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News
U.S. Office Occupancy at Seven-Year High
According to a new report from CBRE Research, annual tenant demand, as measured by net absorption, totaled 52.7 million square feet (4.9 million sq m) in 2014—the highest annual amount since 2007.
March 30, 2015
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Economy, Market & Trends
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News
Report Estimates Sprawl’s Cost to United States at $1 Trillion per Year
Urban sprawl costs the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion annually, according to a new study by the New Climate Economy, a global commission on the economy and climate.
March 23, 2015
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Economy, Market & Trends
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Artificial Intelligence
McKinsey’s Kirkland Says to Prepare for “A.I. Spring”
Rik Kirkland, director of publishing and principal at consultancy McKinsey & Co., believes that one story has the potential to “change everything” between now and the year 2100. Speaking at ULI’s Midwinter Meeting in Paris, Kirkland said, “The biggest story unfolding around us today is we’re witnessing the dawn of the era of machine learning and artificial intelligence.”
March 16, 2015
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Resilience and Sustainability
Reimagining Houston’s Transit System
After a two-year process, Houston’s existing bus system will be restructured to give better coverage and boost frequency to key areas without cost. Could other systems be similarly optimized?
March 12, 2015
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Design and Planning
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News
Google Rethinks Its Office Needs
Google has announced plans to add approximately 1.1 million square feet to the existing 2 million square feet of office space at the company’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, in collaboration with architects BIG and Heatherwick Studio.
March 6, 2015
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