Ron Nyren

Ron Nyren is a freelance architecture, urban planning, and real estate writer based in the San Francisco Bay area.

Finance & Investment

Multifamily

ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Pioneering Affordable Housing Preservation in Austin

With insights and research from a ULI Technical Advisory Panel and ULI’s Terwilliger Center, the Austin Housing Conservancy fund, a revolutionary approach to preserving workforce housing, was born. Now known as the Texas Housing Conservancy, the fund became the nation’s first to combine a nonprofit investment manager, Affordable Central Texas, with an open-end private equity fund.

November 19, 2024

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Capital Markets and Finance

Recreation and Entertainment

Convention Centers Integrate with the Urban Realm to Stay Competitive

Covid-19 may have caused a precipitous decline in convention crowds in 2020, but it did not halt long-range plans to overhaul and expand convention centers in a number of key U.S. cities. Today that foresight is bearing fruit with grand new facilities able to host larger industry and trade gatherings than ever before.

October 29, 2024

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Design and Planning

Infrastructure – Parking and Parking Facilities

UL10: Urban Parking Solutions

The following projects include an underwater bicycle garage; a university parking structure that includes a gaming lounge and food hall; a surface lot reimagined as open space with parklike amenities; an underground cafeteria repurposed for cars; and parking decks wrapped in artistic, semitransparent enclosures that reflect local culture.

August 20, 2024

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Placemaking and Placekeeping

Urban Design

A Sense of Place—Revitalizing Downtowns Through Smart Placemaking

Can third spaces help downtowns bounce back from the pandemic?

July 30, 2024

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Inside the ULI Foundation

ULI Leadership

Tom Toomey to Lead ULI Foundation as New Chair

Thomas W. Toomey, chairman and chief executive officer of UDR Inc., will become the new chair of the ULI Foundation on July 1, 2024. A longtime ULI member and chair of the ULI Global Board of Directors from 2017 to 2019, Toomey brings extensive leadership experience and a deep commitment to philanthropic support for ULI’s mission.

July 22, 2024

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Design and Planning

UL10: Next-Generation Design Firms

Ten projects showcase clever urban interventions spearheaded by principals under age 50

July 22, 2024

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Design and Planning

San Francisco

Rekindling San Francisco’s Downtown by Reviving Its Streets

ULI San Francisco recently hosted a panel revisiting the recommendations made by ULI Advisory Servies panelists to revive the downtown and highlighting the progress that has been made.

July 15, 2024

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Design and Planning

Office

Adding Life Sciences Space in Proximity to Academic Institutions in Northern California

Berkeley, California, is emerging as a hub for life sciences and technology firms, with new developments opening in the West Berkeley neighborhood. In June, ULI San Francisco hosted a walking tour through two campuses targeting life sciences research and development tenants at the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay: theLAB Berkeley and Berkeley Commons.

June 24, 2024

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