Author: Valerie Fahey

Articles by Valerie Fahey

• Making the Most of Percent-for-Art Requirements: How Developers Meet Branding, Leasing, Wayfinding Needs
  Published on September 22, 2021 in Planning & Design
  As art requirements gain momentum in enhancing the public realm, developers are also getting smart about making public art work for the public, as well as for the project
• A 1987 ULI Panel Helped Lay the Foundation for the Colorado Convention Center
  Published on October 25, 2012 in Public Spaces
  The Colorado Convention Center is one of the country’s busiest meeting venues. The work of a ULI Advisory Services panel played a significant role in Denver's decision to build the convention center. But it had a humble and fractious start.
• Battery Park City, 2010 ULI Heritage Award Winner, Aids the Rebirth of Lower Manhattan
  Published on September 12, 2012 in Development
  Located at the southern end of Manhattan Island, it has been called one of the most significant major developments built in the United States during the past 100 years.
• Evolution of Chicago’s Navy Pier Shaped by ULI Advisory Service Panels
  Published on August 03, 2012 in Planning & Design
  In 1989, a ULI Advisory Services panel was convened to help the city arrest serious decay at Navy Pier, which had experienced a decline so apparent that there was even talk of closing it, eliminating its unparalleled views of the Chicago skyline. But the ULI panel came back with a framework for reimagining Navy Pier.
• It’s Not Just Land, It’s Disneyland—a ULI Heritage Award Winner
  Published on February 29, 2012 in Inside ULI
  Few places speak as magically to the child in all of us as Disneyland, the ULI 1995 Heritage Award winner. "Disneyland was given the Heritage Award by virtue of its timeless quality and character, continuing economic success, and contribution to innovative land use," jury member James DeFrancia, principal of Lowe Enterprises in Aspen, Colorado, says today of the choice.
• ULI Advisory Panel Helped Keep Tahoe Blue
  Published on February 29, 2012 in Sustainability
  Lake Tahoe, the largest, highest-elevation alpine lake in North America, is one of the most treasured natural wonders in the United States. But its pristine natural beauty and abundant recreational opportunities have also put pressure on the area by bringing in growing numbers of vacationers and year-round residents. With its jewel-like fresh-water lake cradled by snow-peaked mountains even in the summer months, Lake Tahoe is one of the top international attractions in California.
• Saving Union Station
  Published on February 14, 2012 in Planning & Design
  Washington, D.C.’s Union Station—nearly abandoned, structurally unsound, and considered an eyesore—is now an iconic urban mixed-use center in part because of an influential ULI advisory services panel in 1981.
• Resorting to Nature for Development Success
  Published on February 14, 2012 in Planning & Design
  The Sea Pines Resort in South Carolina, which received the ULI Heritage Award in 1995, has influenced planned communities and the way projects work to balance nature and development