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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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Development and Construction
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Multifamily
Offsite Evolved: Realizing the Promise of Prefab, Modular, and 3D-Printing Construction
“The primary advantage every modular project has, if you do it right, is time savings,” said Mark Donahue—principal, design, for Lowney Architecture—during the “Offsite Evolved: How Today’s Prefab, Modular, and 3D-Printing Solutions Deliver Proven Speed, Savings, and Scale” panel at the ULI Fall Meeting in San Francisco. “You can, on a, say, 24-month construction project, save six to eight weeks.”
November 18, 2025
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Design and Planning
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San Francisco
Canva Chief Evangelist Guy Kawasaki: 10 Principles for Innovation
Guy Kawasaki—chief evangelist at Canva, former chief evangelist for Apple, and bestselling author—summed up insights gleaned from his years in tech and as host of the Remarkable People podcast, interviewing such luminaries as Margaret Atwood, Tony Fauci, Jane Goodall, and Steve Wozniak.
November 17, 2025
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Development and Construction
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San Francisco
Building Urban Strength in the San Francisco Bay Region: Insights from the 2025 Lewis Center Sustainability Forum
The 2025 Lewis Center Sustainability Forum, held during the ULI Fall Meeting in San Francisco, explored ways that local leaders in planning, policy, and development are advancing urban strength and adaptability amid increasing climate and social stresses.
November 17, 2025
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Capital Markets and Finance
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Finance & Investment
The New Landscape of Commercial Real Estate Lending: Debt, Downtowns, and Data
While the full impact of the pandemic has yet to be realized, commercial real estate faces new uncertainties, including questions about the AI boom’s longevity, the spending strength of the U.S. consumer, and debt sustainability. In response to increased competition for quality deals, commercial real estate firms are restructuring their operations, using diverse data sources, accessing new capital, and forming new partnerships.
November 10, 2025
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Capital Markets and Finance
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Dallas
PwC and ULI Report Reveals the 2026 Real Estate Trends Transforming Where We Live, Work and Invest
Drawing on insights from more than 1,700 leading real estate investors, developers, lenders and advisors across the U.S. and Canada, the report identifies key opportunities, risks and market shifts that will shape the industry in the coming year.
November 6, 2025
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Design and Planning
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San Francisco
Reviving Market Street: Fresh ideas spark new hope for San Francisco’s historic corridor
For decades, civic leaders have tried to revitalize Market Street, San Francisco’s central thoroughfare, only to see their efforts founder. “I sometimes call it the great white whale of San Francisco,” says Eric Tao, managing partner at L37 Development in San Francisco and co-chair of ULI San Francisco. “Every new mayor, every new planning director, every new economic development director has chased that white whale.” This year, however, an international competition of ideas hosted and run by ULI San Francisco, with support from the ULI Foundation, generated fresh momentum for reimagining the boulevard. The competition drew 173 submissions from nine countries and sparked new conversations about the future of downtown San Francisco.
October 31, 2025
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Data Centers
ULI Award Winners: EcoDataCenter 1 Powers Its Servers with 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Sweden
Data centers have a reputation for high energy use. EcoDataCenter 1 in Falun, Sweden, offers an alternate model: its two data centers, DCA and DCB, derive all of their power from nearby renewable energy sources; 75 percent comes from hydropower and 25 percent from wind.
October 22, 2025
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Design and Planning
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Asia Pacific
ULI Award Winners: Upper House’s “Dancing Balconies” Reshape Brisbane’s Skyline
Across the Brisbane River from Brisbane, Australia’s central business district, the 33-story Upper House residential tower stands out in the city’s skyline with its “dancing balconies” and curving timber ribbons inspired by the prominent roots of Queensland’s native Moreton Bay fig tree.
October 6, 2025
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Development and Construction
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San Francisco
ULI Meeting Tour Preview: San Francisco’s Mission Rock Mixed-Use Waterfront Neighborhood
A waterfront site across McCovey Cove from San Francisco’s Oracle Park had long served as a parking lot for Giants baseball fans—but little more. Today, the property is home to Mission Rock, an ambitious mixed-use development undertaken in a public-private partnership between the Giants, the Port of San Francisco, and global real estate development company Tishman Speyer. Attendees of the 2025 ULI Fall Meeting will have the opportunity to tour Mission Rock and learn how an unusually collaborative approach to development has created a neighborhood that goes beyond serving sports fans.
September 29, 2025
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Design and Planning
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Adaptive Use and Building Reuse
ULI Award Winners: A Postmodern Masterpiece’s Second Act
Designed by noted architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee and constructed in 1984, 550 Madison Avenue has a curved roof pediment that reminded enough people of Chippendale furniture to earn the nickname “the Chippendale Building.” Globally recognized as an influential postmodern masterpiece, it once served as headquarters for AT&T and later Sony, then became the youngest edifice to be designated a New York City landmark. The Olayan Group purchased it in 2016 to rework the single-tenant tower into a multi-tenant, mixed-use office building that prioritizes occupant wellness and environmental sustainability.
September 23, 2025
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