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Ron Nyren

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

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Resilience and Sustainability
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Design and Planning
ULX: 10 Resilient Developments
10 projects model ways to prepare the built environment for climate stresses and shocks
February 20, 2025
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Ron Nyren
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Issues and Trends
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Philanthropic Impact
ULI Western New York, Local Stakeholders, and Advisory Services Program Seek to Revive Buffalo’s Historically Black Jefferson Avenue Corridor
A group of experts representing ULI visited Buffalo, New York, last November to make recommendations for reviving the city’s Jefferson Avenue Corridor, the main thoroughfare of a historically black area that has suffered a decline in commercial, social, and civic activity and engagement as the result of decades of disinvestment and a recent racially motivated shooting.
February 7, 2025
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Ron Nyren
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Design and Planning
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Multifamily
ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Long-Term Affordable Housing That Highlights Community-Building in Sydney Suburbs
In the Sydney suburb of Marrickville, two not-for-profit organizations—Fresh Hope Communities, the public benevolent institution entity of churches of Christ in NSW and ACT, and Nightingale Housing of Brunswick, Victoria—came together to develop a building that contains 54 units renting at 80 percent of market rates as well as two community-focused commercial spaces. The Churches of Christ Property Trust has provided a 99 year lease for the land, which allows the units to remain affordable far beyond a more typical 10-year period.
January 28, 2025
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Ron Nyren
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Development and Construction
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Office
ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Reimagining Victorian Heritage for the Modern Workplace
In the heart of London’s Covent Garden neighborhood, a complex of five Victorian-era structures—previously housing a seed merchant company, a brass and iron foundry, and a Nonconformist chapel, among other uses—have been restored and adapted into a single, cohesive office building with ground-floor retail and dining space. The three-year restoration preserved the property’s industrial heritage and provides flexibility to meet the needs of today’s workforce.
January 22, 2025
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Ron Nyren
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Design and Planning
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ULI Asia Pacific
ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Regenerating China’s Urban Villages
Shenzhen’s Nantou Ancient City project represents a groundbreaking approach to revitalizing China’s historic urban villages in a way that preserves their cultural heritage and community fabric. After China’s government designated Shenzhen as a Special Economic Zone in 1980, the city’s more than 400 urban villages grew rapidly to provide informal housing for an influx of migrant workers. The result: high-density residential areas that maximized rental income but often compromised on fire safety and hygiene standards.
January 15, 2025
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Ron Nyren
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Issues and Trends
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ULI Leadership
Melville Charitable Trust Grants ULI $75,000 to Seek Real Estate Solutions in the Affordable Housing Crisis
The Melville Charitable Trust awarded $75,000 to the ULI Foundation to support the development of 10 Principles for Addressing Homelessness: A Guide for Real Estate & Finance. Awarded in October 2024, the one-year grant is the trust’s first donation to the Urban Land Institute (ULI). It will let ULI’s Homeless to Housed (H2H) initiative create a comprehensive guide intended to connect real estate leaders with not-for-profit housing and service providers and collectively identify ways of catalyzing the production and preservation of more deeply affordable housing that is both cost-effective and rapidly deployable.
January 10, 2025
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Ron Nyren
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Design and Planning
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Mixed Use and Multi-Use
ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Once a Film Roll Packing Plant, Now a Sustainable Mixed-Use Community
In the Belgian municipality of Edegem, just a 20-minute bike ride from Antwerp’s city center, a brownfield site that once stored camera film has become a biodiverse, sustainable mixed-use residential and commercial neighborhood.
January 8, 2025
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Ron Nyren
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Awards
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Public Buildings - Libraries and Museums
ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Warsaw’s New Cultural Landmark Sets History in Stone
For two hundred years, the Warsaw Citadel at the heart of Poland’s capital was a restricted military and administrative area, cut off from public access. With the recent opening of the Polish History Museum, as well as the new Polish Army Museum, the 19th-century fortress’ 74-acre (30 ha) grounds now serve as a multifunctional cultural and educational facility and park that preserves and showcases the country’s heritage.
December 17, 2024
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Ron Nyren
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Development and Construction
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Architecture – Design
UL10: Modern Museums
10 museum buildings strengthen ties to communities and the public realm
December 16, 2024
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Ron Nyren
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Design and Planning
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New York City
Outlook for Downtown Rejuvenation
Four experts discuss how to rebuild urban cores by bringing the public and private sectors together to create thriving downtowns that entice remote workers to return to the office and broaden the mix of uses.
December 9, 2024
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Ron Nyren
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