Recent Articles

• How Arizona Developers Are Building for Future Job Growth

  March 16, 2020

  With Arizona continuing to be among the U.S. leaders in job growth, several of the state’s most successful retail, office, and mixed-use residential developers discussed the opportunities of the past decade at a ULI Arizona event.

• Bringing Mixed Uses—and Open Space—to a Multiple-Small-Block Development in Portland

  February 3, 2020

  A Seattle developer pioneers a flexible process to bring live/work/make/eat/shop uses to a superblock site on Portland’s inner urban fringe.

• Northwood Investors’ $1.2 Billion Bet on a North Carolina Office Park

  December 11, 2019

  In 2017, the New York–based Northwood Investors spent $1.2 billion to purchase Ballantyne Corporate Park, a highly successful office property in Charlotte—the single-largest real estate transaction in North Carolina’s history at the time.

• Bringing More Mixed-Use Residential to Downtown Fort Lauderdale

  March 15, 2019

  In 2018, downtown Fort Lauderdale added just over 1,000 residential units. An additional 3,000 units have already come to market so far in 2019, with more underway. While speakers at ULI Southeast Florida’s “Fort Lauderdale Emerges” event acknowledged the risk of overbuilding, they were also confident that a blockbuster mixed-use project will attract interest for decades to come.

• ULX: Multifaceted Mixed Use

  January 14, 2019

  Ten projects create synergy among different uses.

• Financial Crisis Helped Highlight Advantages of Mixed-Use Development for Investors

  October 1, 2018

  A panel discussion at the recent ULI Europe Real Estate Forum in Dublin examined how investors are driving demand for and managing mixed-use districts and buildings. Speakers said that rather than many small and varied projects, they have concentrated on fewer and larger high-return projects.

• A Mixed-Use Vertical Village Revives a Retail Ruin in Memphis

  September 17, 2018

  A former Sears, Roebuck & Company distribution center and retail location in the Crosstown neighborhood of Memphis with historic landmark status has evolved into a mixed-use project with retail, health and educational space, plus apartments.

• Boston’s Fenway/Kenmore Neighborhood and Longwood Medical Area

  The area surrounding the historic baseball stadium has been transfigured by new residential skyscrapers where fast-food restaurants once stood, in addition to high-tech health companies and a market concept popular in Portugal.

• Urbanizing the Town Center of Columbia, Maryland

  March 12, 2018

  James Rouse’s visionary development is 50 years old. The process of urbanizing its town center may create a model for other suburban developments.