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Karen Jordan

Karen Jordan is a freelance journalist, filmmaker, and author based in Los Angeles. She has contributed to The Atlantic, Los Angeles magazine, and the Huffington Post.

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Resilience and Sustainability
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Infrastructure
ULI Panel Highlights Urgent Lessons from Los Angeles Wildfires to Shape Future Resilience Efforts
At the Urban Land Institute’s 2025 Spring Meeting in Denver, real estate leaders gathered to share critical lessons learned from the catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in January. The panel, “Rebuilding Resilience: A Conversation with Leaders on Lessons from the Los Angeles Wildfires,” emphasized the importance of swift disaster response and collaborative approaches, as members unveiled the influential Project Recovery: Rebuilding Los Angeles After the January 2025 Wildfires report, which they hope will serve as a blueprint for other cities facing disasters.
June 10, 2025
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Karen Jordan
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Design and Planning
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Leadership
Diane Hoskins on the Importance of Being Bold and Recognizing Greatness
Becoming an architect was always the goal for ULI Global Chair Diane Hoskins. “I’ve always loved buildings,” she said during the WLI Americas Presents a View from the Top session at the ULI 2025 Spring Meeting in Denver, Colorado, where she was interviewed by Emma West, partner at Bousfields Inc. and ULI Chair of the Women’s Leadership Initiative’s Americas Executive Committee.
June 3, 2025
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Karen Jordan
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Development and Construction
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Industrial
Pandemic Shift: Northern Mexico Industrial Development Bolstered by Manufacturing
Northern Mexico has experienced a significant expansion in the Mexican industrial real estate sector since its major decline from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, due, in part, to low-cost production in China. During the pandemic, that trend began to shift.
September 18, 2024
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Karen Jordan
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Development and Construction
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Chicago
Chicago Developers Take Advantage of City Funds for Adaptive Use Projects
Chicago has become one of the many major cities nationwide whose downtown office market has been negatively affected by the pandemic and the associated increase in remote work. To boost development in its downtown core, the city of Chicago recently announced that it will offer $150 million in subsidies to real estate developers. The move will help develop more than 1,000 apartments in four separate adaptive-use developments.
July 22, 2024
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Karen Jordan
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Issues and Trends
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Leadership
Women in Leadership: Bousfields Partner Emma West on Finding Success in Giving Back
Urban Land is spotlighting some trailblazing women in commercial real estate, all of whom are members of the ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative. Emma West, partner at Toronto-based Bousfields Inc., says it was the women who were part of the WLI Toronto Committee when she first joined who were instrumental in her professional development.
March 25, 2024
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Karen Jordan
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Issues and Trends
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Women in Leadership: Bozzuto Chief Administrative Officer Julie Smith on Doing What You Love
The number of women who have joined ULI has more than doubled in recent years, from 20 percent of ULI’s nearly 28,000 members to more than 13,000 female members, which equates to 29 percent of the organization’s 45,000 members. In celebration of this growth, Urban Land is spotlighting some trailblazing women in commercial real estate, all of whom are members of the ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative. Julie Smith, chief administrative officer at Maryland-based Bozzuto and a former ULI District Council Leader, is among them.
March 21, 2024
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Karen Jordan
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion
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Los Angeles
Closing the Wealth Gap
Los Angeles attorney George Fatheree III—who made national headlines for aiding members of the Bruce family in the return of beachfront property that was taken from their ancestors, nearly a century ago, through eminent domain—is embarking on a new venture, his own social impact fintech, ORO Impact.
February 1, 2024
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Karen Jordan
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Development and Construction
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Chicago
Quintin Primo: The Man Behind Google’s Midwest HQ in Chicago
Developer Quintin Primo, who has done more than $14 billion worth of transactions over his decades-long career, is currently eyeing revitalizing Chicago’s Loop in his hometown, among other projects.
January 30, 2024
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Karen Jordan
Economy, Market & Trends
The Way Forward: Building New Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Systems for a Post-Pandemic World
Mariana Mazzucato, an Italian-American/British economist and academic, and author of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies, says that the time has come for businesses and governments to take a new approach. To that end, according to Mazzucato, we must embrace taking risks as well as living with the uncertainty that “underpins all the collective investments” needed to handle crises in a proactive manner.
November 9, 2023
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Development and Construction
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Mixed-Use
Cambridge Crossing: A Mixed-Use Life Science Campus in Boston
Cambridge Crossing, a 4.5 million-square-foot (418,063.7 square meters) mixed-use space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was one of this year’s recipients of the ULI Americas Awards for Excellence. The roughly 43-acre (17.4 hectares) project, built at the site of an abandoned railyard, has about 2.4 million square feet (223,027 square meters) of residential space, including about 2,700 residential units, and the project had multiple master plans from different developers, dating as far back as 2003.
November 6, 2023
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