Trish Riggs

Trish Riggs is a public relations consultant and freelancer with Keadle-Riggs Communications. Riggs was a senior vice president with the Urban Land Institute from 2005 to 2019.

Landscape architect Peter Walker, founder of PWP Landscape Architecture in Berkeley, California, has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, the Institute’s highest honor.
ULI trustee James J. Curtis III, cofounder and managing partner of the Bristol Group Inc., a San Francisco–based real estate investment firm, is the new chairman of the ULI Foundation.
Plans for CEO succession at most real estate firms in the U.S. are inadequate and could jeopardize a smooth transition of leadership, says a new report by ULI and global search and assessment firm Russell Reynolds.
The housing industry will continue to improve gradually over the next year, following three years of stagnation, with the recovery fueled primarily by strong activity in individual markets scattered across the country.
A commercial real estate crisis in the U.S. is looming over the next two to three years, as at least $1.5 trillion in commercial mortgage debt issued over the past decade becomes due, said industry practitioners speaking at the National Association of Real Estate Editors conference in Denver.
Urban theorist Richard Florida, author of numerous books on 21st century urban evolution, including The Rise of the Creative Class, Who’s Your City, and The Great Reset, has been named a ULI senior visiting fellow
The Spring Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, was the last major ULI event with James D. Klingbeil as chairman of the ULI Foundation. Klingbeil’s term, which began in July 2006, concludes in July.
The five top-rated cities for investment prospects are Chengdu, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, and Shenzhen, according to Mainland China Real Estate Markets 2012: ULI Analysis of City Investment Prospects, the second annual report on China cities released May 18 by ULI Asia.
In a keynote address at the ULI Spring Meeting, scholar Paul Wolfowitz explained how two worldwide trends—urbanization and democratization—are elevating the importance of sustainable urban development.
Erskine Bowles, former co-chair of the presidential fiscal commission, tells ULI leaders: “If we make tough choices and get our fiscal house in order, America can compete with the best and brightest in the world. But I’m equally confident that if we don’t, this country is on its way to being a second-rate power.”
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