Development and Construction
Explore Development & Construction insights that spotlight innovation, drive building trends, and shape stronger real‑world projects.
From Minnesota to New Orleans, the Institute’s Real Estate Diversity Initiative is building a more inclusive pipeline of developers through hands-on training, mentorship, and community-based partnerships.
From site surveying to maintenance, drones, robo-dogs, and other smart, mobile machines are beginning to change the way the world builds.
Urban Land magazine began in July 1941, as a typewritten “news bulletin” to ULI members “that will come to you from time to time to keep you informed of items which, we believe, will be of interest to you in connection with the Urban Land Institute program.”
Newly constructed libraries serve as “third spaces” and offer connectivity and multimedia in addition to community resources.
As demand has surged, regulators target traditional facilities, with new models emerging to make storage nearly invisible
In November 2024, ULI’s Advisory Services program partnered with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Buffalo Branch, the Buffalo Urban League, and local civic leaders to support the revitalization of Buffalo’s historic Jefferson Avenue Corridor.
ULI Advisory Services Panels bring together leading experts to help communities navigate their most pressing land use and development challenges. What happens after the recommendations are delivered, though? One year on, we checked back with this community in Fort Worth, Texas, to see how panel insights have turned into action and how ULI’s work is helping to shape meaningful, lasting progress.
Navigating the 2026 Build: Why developers are gaining leverage with contractors even as copper prices and skilled labor scarcity remain structural hurdles
Established in 1914, the Cleveland Foundation is a community-oriented, philanthropic organization dedicated to investing in worthy individuals and nonprofit organizations in greater Cleveland, Ohio. With the lease running out on its existing headquarters in the city’s Playhouse Square district, the foundation decided to build its own headquarters, but in an intentional way that would spur economic development in one of the city’s neglected pockets.
Five new case studies that meet the criteria have been selected as the Terwilliger Center’s 2025 award winners: Market Street Village in San Diego, Sendero Verde in New York City, The Aster in Salt Lake City, The Kelsey Ayer Station in San José, and The Wilder in Nashville. Each of them offers an important, in-depth look at the financing structures, development strategies, community partnerships, and public policies that make such ambitious projects viable.
Moving beyond flat-pad suburbs, Terraine embraces Utah’s foothills with contour-responsive homes and mining-town architecture.
Infrastructure Ontario’s Provincial Affordable Housing Lands Program aims to create a mix of market-rate housing and permanent, sustainable, affordable housing on surplus land in greater Toronto. For its first effort, the agency chose Dream Asset Management, Kilmer Group, and Tricon Residential to develop a mixed-use community with 2,500 apartments on a former brownfield industrial site.
