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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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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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Issues and Trends
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Obituaries
Remembering Dana Crawford, Pioneer of Historic Preservation and Urban Revitalization
Developer sought to improve people’s lives through her work.
May 12, 2025
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Development and Construction
Urban Land Armchair Tour: A 25-Year Journey from Runways to Resilience for Denver’s Central Park Neighborhood
When Denver’s Stapleton International Airport closed in the mid-1990s, community leaders saw a chance to create a new, 4,700-acre (1,900 ha) community just six miles east of downtown. The project’s original developer, Forest City Stapleton (sold to Brookfield Properties in 2018), kicked off an urban transformation that is now nearing completion 25 years later. Known for extensive resilience strategies to reduce the effects of drought, flooding, and extreme heat, Central Park’s 12 neighborhoods are home to nearly 35,000 residents, with 60 parks as well as extensive pedestrian and bicycle trails.
April 4, 2025
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Development and Construction
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Mixed-Use
Urban Land Armchair Tour: Denver’s McGregor Square Where Baseball Meets Mixed-Use
The Colorado Rockies’ ownership leased a parking lot adjacent to Coors Field in order to construct McGregor Square, a 3.2-acre (1.3 ha) mixed-use development that serves baseball fans, tourists, and the broader community.
February 24, 2025
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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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