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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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ULI Leadership
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Philanthropic Impact
Vincent Ilustre Takes the Helm as New ULI Foundation President
In April, the Urban Land Institute welcomed Vincent Ilustre as the new president of the ULI Foundation, appointing him to lead philanthropic initiatives and strengthen donor engagement. Ilustre was drawn to the role by the strong connection members have with ULI. “There’s a genuine passion for this organization,” he said. “Members don’t just join ULI—they invest in it because it’s helped shape their professional journeys.”
July 29, 2025
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Issues and Trends
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San Francisco
ULI San Francisco Names Winners of Market Street Reimagined Competition
ULI San Francisco and the Civic Joy Fund have announced the winners of the Market Street Reimagined competition. This international competition of ideas, which attracted 173 submissions from nine countries, challenged entrants to create a new vision for the city’s main thoroughfare that would draw more visitors and businesses to the area. A distinguished jury, hosted by San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, divided the $100,000 prize among the winning teams and designated eight additional entries as honorable mentions.
July 22, 2025
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Issues and Trends
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Dallas
ULI Advisory Services Panel, Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber Partner to Combat Displacement in Historic Northside Neighborhood
A team of ULI experts visited Fort Worth in September 2024 to develop anti-displacement strategies for the city’s historic, majority Hispanic Northside neighborhood, which faces mounting pressure from two nearby megadevelopments, as well as broader metropolitan growth trends that drove up the area’s property values 60 percent from 2016 to 2021.
July 18, 2025
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Capital Markets and Finance
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Awards
Pioneering Affordable Housing Preservation in Austin
In 2015, Austin, Texas’ mayor at the time, Steve Adler, brought together business leaders, real estate professionals, and housing experts to take on the crisis in affordable rental housing and the risks it posed to the city’s workforce stability and economic sustainability. With insights and research from a ULI Technical Advisory Panel and ULI’s Terwilliger Center for Housing, the Austin Housing Conservancy fund was born, offering a revolutionary approach to preserving workforce housing. 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.
July 16, 2025
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Leadership
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ULI Leadership
Remembering Joseph C. Canizaro, Past ULI Chair and New Orleans Development Pioneer
Joseph C. Canizaro, a past chair and trustee of ULI, passed away at age 88 on June 20, 2025. A member of ULI for more than 50 years, Canizaro built one of New Orleans’ most influential real estate development companies, Columbus Properties, which helped shape the city’s skyline.
July 8, 2025
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Design and Planning
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Awards
ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2024 Finalist: Singapore’s First Net-Positive Energy Nature Park
Once the site of an abandoned quarry, Singapore’s Rifle Range Nature Park now serves as a buffer zone protecting one of the island nation’s last primary rainforests, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, from encroaching development and human activity. Located to the reserve’s south, Rifle Range is Singapore’s first net-positive energy nature park, harvesting more energy than its annual operational requirements.
July 7, 2025
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Development and Construction
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Residential
Product Council Outlook for Residential Development: What lies ahead for the housing market?
Five experts from ULI’s Residential Neighborhood Development Council discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead for homebuilders; what buyers and renters want from their neighborhoods, and how they value sustainability and resilience; what state and local housing policies are effectively encouraging housing construction; and other trends.
June 23, 2025
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Design and Planning
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Multifamily
UL10: Ten Affordable Housing Developments
10 inventive designs put housing within reach of low- and moderate-income individuals and families
June 13, 2025
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Urban and Regional Planning
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Office
Mile-High Momentum: How Denver Is Reinventing Its Downtown
As it contends with the same post-pandemic challenges that confront other urban cores nationwide, downtown Denver is leveraging public/private partnerships to bring back vitality. At the ULI 2025 Spring Meeting in Denver, Colorado, five leaders involved with the city’s revitalization shared recent successes and plans for Denver’s future.
June 10, 2025
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Capital Markets and Finance
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Hotels and Resorts
A Bumpy Road Lies Ahead for the U.S. Hotel Industry
The hotel industry in the United States faces complex challenges in 2025, according to Jan Freitag, national director of hospitality analytics for the CoStar Group. During the “State of the U.S. Hotel Industry” presentation at the ULI 2025 Spring Meeting in Denver, Colorado, Freitag highlighted the challenges facing the hotel business amid macroeconomic uncertainty.
May 14, 2025
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