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Jack Skelley

Jack Skelley serves on the Advisory Board of ULI Los Angeles, and writes about urban design, architecture, and real estate. He is president of JSPR, Public Relations, Writing & Marketing.

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Resilience and Sustainability
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Los Angeles
Up from the Ashes: Los Angeles homeowners, Builders Alliance begin to rebuild
Six months after urban wildfires devastated neighborhoods in Los Angeles, signs of rebuilding are evident. Although the landscape still resembles a charred war zone, many residential lots have been cleared with assistance from FEMA. In Altadena and Pacific Palisades—the communities that, together, lost more than 16,000 structures—some homeowners are overcoming huge hurdles, such as permitting and steep construction costs, and are expected to begin rebuilding this year. And builders are banding together in a new Builders Alliance to share resources and incrementally ease the massive housing shortage that plagued the city even before the fires.
July 23, 2025
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Fires Recovery: Real Estate Community and Key Stakeholders Present Innovative Rebuilding Plans
Despite the headwinds to rebuilding quickly and efficiently, just after the worst of the Los Angeles fires, ULI Los Angeles joined UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate to shape a response plan, created in just six weeks.
March 28, 2025
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Resilience and Sustainability
Rebuilding in the Aftermath of L.A.’s Unprecedented Urban Fires, Amid an Already Pressing Housing Crisis
On January 7, 2025, when sparks began igniting the communities of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Pasadena, Altadena, Hollywood, and others, the city of Los Angeles had been struggling to produce 486,379 new housing units by 2029, a number mandated by California’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) to address the shortfall.
January 17, 2025
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Development and Construction
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Los Angeles
Growth Spurt: L.A.'s Ambitious Downtown Plan Balances a Future of New Uses
As cities confront the housing crisis, they face intersecting challenges: opposition not only to affordable-housing development but often to any development; spiraling financing and construction costs; outdated zoning that stifles or misplaces growth; egregious bureaucratic barriers; and issues around displacement and historic preservation. But some cities have an asset that can serve as a testing ground for harmonizing urgent priorities: their downtown districts.
May 20, 2024
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Design and Planning
A Masterplan Community Success Hinged on History: A Former Youth Correctional Facility Transformed in California
A 100-year-old correctional facility in Whittier, California, becomes a new master-planned community.
May 30, 2023
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Economy, Market & Trends
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Design and Planning
California Relaxes Parking Mandates to Free Up Land for Multifamily Development—but Will Neighbors and Lenders Approve?
In the last year, the state’s government has taken robust legislative steps toward stemming the housing crisis.
January 3, 2023
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Philanthropic Impact
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Industrial
ULI Los Angeles and Verde eXchange Host FutureBuild 2016
FutureBuild 2016, hosted in January by ULI Los Angeles in partnership with VerdeXchange, offered a look at urban growth challenges in Los Angeles that are illustrative of issues faced by cities everywhere as they aspire to become more livable, prosperous, and sustainable.
February 24, 2016
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Infrastructure
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Public Policy
In Los Angeles, Mobility Corridors Would Magnify the Effect of TOD
For the most part, transit-oriented developments, or TODs, remain individualized projects, planned in isolation from their surrounding communities.
May 30, 2014
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Design and Planning
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Chicago
Waiting for the Robo-Garage?
As cities become denser, the cost of high-density parking begins to pencil out for developers—which is when the development of parking that automatically stores and retrieves cars becomes attractive.
August 30, 2012
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Market Trends
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Emerging Trends
Growth Gateway Cities Are Rare Bright Spots
According to Emerging Trends, the real estate report from PWC and ULI presented at a ULI 2011 Fall Meeting press conference in L.A. last week, a handful of urban centers are climbing out of recession and may serve as models for the rest of the country. Washington, D.C., remained the number-one city for the third consecutive year; read more to see how the other cities fared in this year’s survey.
October 31, 2011
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