Author: Sarah Kraatz

Sarah Kraatz is an associate with ULI Awards and Advisory Services.

Articles by Sarah Kraatz

• Four Teams Advance to Final Round of ULI Hines Student Competition
  Published on February 26, 2021 in Planning & Design
  Four teams have been selected as the finalists for the 19th annual ULI Hines Student Competition, an event that challenges graduate students to devise a comprehensive design and development plan for a real site in an urban area. Finalists include a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology and one from the University of California, Berkeley. Finalists also include a combined team from Pennsylvania State University, the University of Houston, and Columbia University in the City of New York, in addition to a Toronto-based team from Ryerson University, York University, and the University of Toronto.
• Parks in Brooklyn, New York, and Wellston, Missouri, Win 2020 ULI Urban Open Space Awards
  Published on September 09, 2020 in Planning & Design
  Two urban parks—Domino Park in Brooklyn, New York, and Trojan Park in Wellston, Missouri—have been selected as winners of the 2020 ULI Urban Open Space Award.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Winner: Trojan Park, Wellston, Missouri
  Published on September 09, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This year, Urban Land profiled each finalist for the 2020 ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winners have been announced and Domino Park is one of the two winners.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Winner: Domino Park, Brooklyn, New York
  Published on September 09, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This year, Urban Land profiled each finalist for the 2020 ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winners have been announced and Domino Park is one of the two winners.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Finalist: Yanaguana Garden at Hemisfair, San Antonio, Texas
  Published on August 31, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This summer, Urban Land is profiling online and in print each finalist for 2020’s ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winner(s) will be announced in the fall. Learn more about award-winning and innovative open-space projects as part of the 2020 ULI Virtual Fall Meeting.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Finalist: West Eau Claire Park, Calgary, Alberta
  Published on August 31, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This summer, Urban Land is profiling online and in print each finalist for 2020’s ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winner(s) will be announced in the fall. Learn more about award-winning and innovative open-space projects as part of the 2020 ULI Virtual Fall Meeting.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards: Special Mentions
  Published on August 31, 2020 in Planning & Design
  In addition to the finalists, the 2020 ULI Urban Open Space Awards jury also recognized the contributions that the following open-space projects and programs have made to their communities.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Finalist: Uptown Normal Redevelopment, Normal, Illinois
  Published on August 31, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This summer, Urban Land is profiling online and in print each finalist for 2020’s ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winner(s) will be announced in the fall.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Finalist: Salesforce Park, San Francisco, California
  Published on August 17, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This summer, Urban Land will be profiling online and in print each finalist for 2020’s ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winner(s) will be announced in the fall.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Finalist: Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, Tampa, Florida
  Published on August 10, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This summer, we will be profiling online and in print each finalist for 2020's ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winner(s) will be announced in the fall.
• ULI Urban Open Space Awards Finalist: Historic Fourth Ward Park—Phase I, Atlanta, Georgia
  Published on August 03, 2020 in Planning & Design
  This summer, Urban Land will be profiling online and in print each finalist for 2020's ULI Urban Open Space Award. The winner(s) will be announced in the fall.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Lingnan Tiandi (LNTD) Lot 1 (Foshan, Guangdong, China)
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  Located in Foshan, Guangdong, China, Lingnan Tiandi (LNTD) Lot 1 is the largest city-core historic preservation project in China. Lot 1 is a 13.8-acre (5.6 ha) project at the center of a larger 128-acre (52 ha) development that has revitalized the historic Chancheng District.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) • Shanghai, China
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  The Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) is a live/work/play/learn neighborhood developed in Shanghai’s Yangpu district. Before KIC, the district was a dilapidated industrial district with a historic stadium.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: International Market Place (Honolulu, Hawaii)
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  International Market Place in Waikiki has been a landmark for nearly 60 years. The re-imagining of the original International Market Place has breathed new life into the beloved development. Today, it is home to shopping, dining, and entertainment, including Hawaii’s first Saks Fifth Avenue department store. Centered on a century-old banyan tree, the new International Market Place was designed with the site’s history and Hawaiian culture in mind.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Guoco Tower (Singapore)
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  Located in Tanjong Pagar, downtown Singapore’s historic Chinatown, Guoco Tower is the tallest tower in the city-state. It is a mixed-use tower that incorporates office space with retail, hospitality, residential, and park space. The tower serves as a connector between the historic Chinatown and the central business district (CBD), with its taller towers closer to the CBD and the shorter hotel tower nearest the historic district. It has spearheaded the creation of the Tanjong Pagar business improvement district to promote the district as a place where people want to live.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Gathering Place (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  Gathering Place is a new park covering 66.5 acres (26.9 ha) on Tulsa’s waterfront along the Arkansas River. It is the largest public park created with private money, funded by $400 million from the George Kaiser Family Foundation through a public/private partnership with the city of Tulsa. The park incorporates the natural landscape into its design, using the river as a central feature and incorporating the natural topography with human-made topographic elements.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Cornell Tech Campus • New York, New York
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  Cornell Tech Campus represents a new model for higher education in the United States. Located on Roosevelt Island in New York City, the campus is designed around the idea that industry and academia should be intertwined instead of siloed. Along with academic buildings, the development includes corporate co-location, offices, a hotel, a residential tower, and conferencing and assembly areas, with space remaining to accommodate future requirements of the program.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Empire Stores (Brooklyn, New York)
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  Empire Stores is in a formerly vacant 19th-century warehouse on New York City’s Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) waterfront. The warehouse has been a landmark on the waterfront for more than a century and has become part of the urban fabric of the neighborhood.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: 1800 Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  Located in the heart of Center City in Philadelphia, 1800 Arch Street is a $1.5 billion, 60-story mixed-use tower that is the largest private development project in the history of Pennsylvania. An expansive lobby serves as an indoor public plaza, welcoming visitors with art installations, restaurants, a coffee bar, and outdoor seating. The lobby also provides access to a new, underground concourse, lined with shops and art, connecting commuters and visitors to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Suburban Station.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Hoffman-Madison Waterfront (The Wharf Phase I) • Washington, D.C.
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  The Hoffman-Madison Waterfront, more commonly known as the Wharf, occupies a mile-long (1.6 km) stretch along the Washington Channel in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia had become largely disconnected from its waterfront in recent years, but the Wharf is changing that by bringing restaurants, housing, and entertainment venues to the neighborhood.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Scioto Peninsula Cultural District (Columbus, Ohio)
  Published on September 05, 2019 in Planning & Design
  The Scioto Peninsula Cultural District had been a developmental black hole, only recently coming to fruition after seven failed planning attempts within the past century. The district spans 48.2 acres (19.5 ha) and comprises four distinct amenities: the Scioto Greenways, a satellite location of the American Museum of Natural History in Columbus’s Center of Science and Industry, the National Veterans’ Memorial and Museum, and Dorrian Green.
• ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Moscow Street Program • Moscow, Russia
  Published on September 04, 2019 in Planning & Design
  The Moscow Street Program reimagined more than 200 public spaces across Moscow between 2015 and 2017, ahead of the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup. The program, led by Strelka KB, the architecture consultancy branch of Moscow’s Strelka Institute, may be the largest infrastructure project in Russia since the Soviet era.