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.

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Resilience and Sustainability

Public Spaces

Confronting COVID-19: Tactical Urbanism and Other Approaches to Repurposing Space and Boosting Equity

Creative uses of transportation infrastructure during the coronavirus pandemic include closing streets and using parking lots to accommodate outdoor activities.

September 18, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Public Spaces

Confronting COVID-19: Creative Placemaking in the Time of Protests and the Pandemic

The importance of creative placemaking—the process of intentionally integrating arts, culture, and community-engaged design into comprehensive community development—and the role that artists play in that process have been elevated by both the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice protests in the United States, as people seek places to socialize and connect with others outside their homes, according to participants in a recent ULI webinar.

September 10, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Resilience and Sustainability

Confronting COVID-19: New Modules for Healthy Building Certifications

As more commercial properties work to reopen safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, independent healthy building certifications developed in response to the coronavirus are increasingly being sought by building owners, managers, and tenants seeking to assure building users that their spaces are safe to enter and occupy. The leading healthy building certification systems, WELL and Fitwel, have developed new certification modules.

September 3, 2020

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Property Types

Emerging Trends

Developing for Leisure: How to Relax in a New World

ULI Member-only Content: Distinguished placemakers discuss how resort and recreation developments can adapt to consumers’ changing priorities.

Members Only

August 3, 2020

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Philanthropic Impact

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Funding a ULI Program to Make Careers in Real Estate More Accessible

ULI’s new online Foundations of Real Estate (FoRE) curriculum is targeted to undergraduate students at liberal arts colleges and universities. FoRE is a key part of the Institute’s efforts to identify, diversify, and broaden the pool of young people interested in a real estate career. The curriculum is offered through the ULI Learning program, which includes a variety of digital education courses as well as topical webinars provided to ULI members and prospective members.

July 24, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Capital Markets and Finance

Confronting COVID-19: Insights from Asia on Business Impacts and Mitigation

Many countries in Asia have successfully mitigated the spread of COVID-19 through a range of strategies that include universal mask use, testing, sophisticated technology for contact tracing, and strict government quarantine and cleaning protocols, according to leading real estate professionals participating in a recent ULI webinar. The participants described impacts on their real estate businesses, and how the real estate industry has been enlisted in the fight against the coronavirus.

May 19, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Resilience and Sustainability

Confronting COVID-19: Maintaining and Managing Parks and Open Space under Quarantine

Parks and open space have provided a much-needed respite from the quarantine slowing the spread of COVID-19, according to experts participating in a ULI webinar.

May 8, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Resilience and Sustainability

Confronting COVID-19: Renewing the Focus on Resilience and the Future of Cities

The role that health and wellness play in creating resilient buildings and communities has been significantly elevated by the COVID-19 crisis, with healthy design and development strategies becoming key determinants of market competitiveness and investment appeal, according to sustainable real estate experts participating in a webinar hosted by ULI.

May 4, 2020

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Development and Construction

Emerging Trends

Healthy Buildings as a Public Health Tool: A Q&A Webinar for ULI Members

The ways in which people use and interact in commercial buildings—particularly office spaces—will likely be changed significantly due to the COVID-19 crisis, with building and workplace health being a top concern, according to two healthy-building experts featured on a ULI webinar.

April 24, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Capital Markets and Finance

Economics of COVID-19: How “Main Street” Owners Are Working with Tenants

Insights into working with tenants and lenders to weather the coronavirus crisis were shared by a diverse group of real estate professionals—a niche developer and investor specializing in space for life science companies, a mixed-use developer focused primarily on downtown revitalization and development, an affordable housing developer, and a real estate debt and equity adviser—during an April 14 webinar hosted by ULI’s Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate.

April 20, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Philanthropic Impact

Confronting COVID-19: The Effects of COVID-19 on Multifamily and Affordable Housing

The health and economic effects of COVID-19 on the multifamily industry, in terms of exacerbating existing problems related to the nation’s affordable housing shortage, were discussed by housing experts and advocates convened April 7 for a ULI webinar on the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on lower-income renters.

April 10, 2020

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COVID-19: Industry Insights

Philanthropic Impact

Confronting COVID-19: Healthier Buildings and Optimizing for Mental Health

The role of the built environment in slowing the spread of COVID-19 and helping people cope with the pandemic and its aftermath was discussed by healthy-building experts convened by ULI.

April 3, 2020

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