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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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Economy, Market & Trends
ULX Mixed Greens
Defining sustainable design is like trying to pick up a drop of mercury with one’s fingers. The more one tries, the more the object slips away. Learn how ten projects illustrate the variety of green design strategies and their wide applicability to different building types.
April 5, 2011
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Mixed-Use
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Design and Planning
Lifestyle Center Goes Local: Westport Village
When Underhill Associates was converting an apartment complex into condominiums in the early 2000s, the firm’s partners saw the Camelot Shopping Center across the street continue its decline. Read how, with a focus on locally owned businesses, the Louisville, Kentucky, developer was able to turn the aging retail center into Westport Village, a pedestrian-friendly lifestyle center.
March 24, 2011
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Industry Sectors
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Development and Construction
Fixing “Broken” Mixed-Use Developments: An Interview with Trey Morsbach
During the economic downturn, a number of mixed-use developments have failed—because they were built in places where there was not enough housing density, had rents that were too high, or featured bad design or the wrong complement of uses. Trey Morsbach, senior managing director of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, however, sees opportunity. Read what he says can be done to turn these projects around.
March 9, 2011
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Design and Planning
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Development and Construction
ULX Transformative Use
Inserting contemporary architecture into a historic neighborhood requires a sensitive approach. The new building should avoid resembling an alien creature dropped from the sky, but, at the same time, distinctive contemporary architecture adds to the life of the city. Learn how ten projects weave new housing into existing urban environments.
January 27, 2011
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Mixed-Use
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Retail/Entertainment
Small-Scale Development Outlook
Six members of ULI’s three Small-Scale Development Councils speak about the advantages such developers have and the challenges they face in the current economy. Learn which retail tenant is the hardest to get approved, and why municipalities are taking a more favorable approach toward it.
January 13, 2011
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Design and Planning
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Resilience and Sustainability
Adaptive Use Best Practices: An Interview with David Haresign
As an architect, David Haresign estimates that almost half of his work has involved restoration or adaptive use. That includes converting a historic school into condos, an old department store warehouse into a speculative office building, and an airplane parts warehouse into an office building for America Online. A partner at Bonstra | Haresign Architects in Washington, D.C., and a ULI member, he shares some key lessons from his experience.
December 2, 2010
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Design and Planning
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Resilience and Sustainability
Green Adaptive Use: The Hotel Palomar
Sustainable design is about looking to the future, minimizing environmental impact not only during construction but also long after. Adaptive use looks to the past, retaining the rich architectural heritage of older buildings. Read how the Hotel Palomar in Philadelphia brings both strategies together in a boutique hotel that opened in the fall of 2009.
November 23, 2010
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Design and Planning
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Economy, Market & Trends
Developing the Center for Life Science Boston: Three Angles
The Center for Life Science | Boston (CLSB) is the largest privately financed research building in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA), a 213-acre (86-ha) campus in Boston that hosts two dozen medical, research, academic, and cultural institutions, including Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Read about the collaboration between public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders that made this project possible.
November 23, 2010
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Design and Planning
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Resilience and Sustainability
ULX - Transformative Use
Part of the appeal of adaptive use is the way it creatively bends a building from one purpose to another, sometimes seemingly incompatible use, while allowing remnants of the past to coexist side by side with the present. Read how one-of-a-kind structures like a locomotive assembly plant, a mental asylum, and a public school have been adapted for surprising new uses.
November 17, 2010
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Development and Construction
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Capital Markets and Finance
Health Care and Life Sciences Outlook
Five organizers of ULI’s new Health Care and Life Sciences Council speak about the reasons for forming the council, financing strategies for developing in tough economic times, the effects of changing demographics on real estate needs, and other trends on the horizon. Find out how health care reform might affect real estate development.
November 5, 2010
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