As metro areas grow, older anchor institutions will continue to move into bigger facilities. Last month, a ULI advisory services panel offered recommendations for such a site in Buffalo. Learn how the panel’s suggestions for the Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital could determine not only the financial value of the buildings, but also the market value of properties in the surrounding community.
While other industries have fully leveraged social media, the real estate industry appears to lag behind. Is there a strained relationship between the two? Leslie Braunstein, principal of LHB Communications, speaks about how the real estate industry might have discovered how to utilize social media.
How are architects using social media? Sybil Walker Barnes, social media director for the American Institute of Architects, sits down with Urban Land magazine to discuss how architecture professionals have been using social media and how she expects the industry to use it going forward.
Evan Kraus, senior vice president of APCO Online, shares significant findings from his company’s study as well as thoughts on the rise of 4G and GPS smartphone technologies. He tells Urban Land magazine why land use professionals should take notice.
A recent poll revealed that social media are now used by the majority of adult online users. The commercial real estate industry, however, has been slow to figure out the best way to use this emergent technology. Read how going beyond Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn by creating an active presence on Foursquare, Yelp, and YouTube is poised to usher real estate into its time in the sun in 2011.
It is now 2011 and social media no longer remains on the fringes of the professional world. Help ULI develop and share feedback on your strategies for use of social media by letting us know how you are using, and will be using social media in our industry or how your employer is using, and will be using it. Take our brief 5-question survey. We will publish the results here on Urban Land.
The next decade will be a reinvention of single family housing, leading to a wave of multifamily rental developments that will be designed according to consumer preference. For years, the models for developers were based upon sales numbers and price. Read about the consensus at ULI’s 2010 Fall Meeting session entitled, “Lessons Learned: New Models to Meet Changing Consumer Demand.”
Panelists offered their insights into John McIlwain’s, “Housing in America: The Next Decade.” This publication stated that the old “normal” in housing would not return once markets stabilize. McIlwain expects that younger Boomers might experience difficulty selling their current suburban homes, creating a hurdle in being able to relocate. Read what other shifts are expected in the housing market and which trends are predicted to reshape planning.
Anti-sprawl measures are tough for politicians to sell to constituents, so metro area leaders need to better explain to residents the benefits of transit-oriented development and policies that link transportation to housing. This was among the key points at a panel discussion October 4 on Capitol Hill titled “Suburban Solutions to Traffic Congestion,” moderated by ULI’s Maureen McAvey and sponsored by Gerald Connolly (D-Va.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).
