Recent Articles

• ULI Forecast Sees Increased Improvement in Outlook for U.S. Economy

  October 26, 2020

  U.S. real estate economists predict generally improved economic and property market news for the rest of 2020, as well as for the following two years, compared with their forecasts of six months ago, according to the fall 2020 ULI Real Estate Economic Forecast.

• Drawing High-End Consumers Back to Mixed-Use Retail

  May 27, 2020

  In a discussion of the ongoing transformation of U.S. retail, panelists participating in the 2020 ULI Spring Meeting Webinar Series agreed that the authenticity, differentiation, and transparency creating a sense of place in mixed-use retail spaces are likely to be what consumers seek in the future. Single-use spaces are about convenience, but that is only half of what consumers say they are looking for.

• Developing Mixed-Income Communities to Ease Housing Attainability in New Orleans

  April 10, 2020

  As in many growing U.S. cities, much of the new housing in New Orleans is on the high end.

• Cities within Cities: Toronto’s New Mega-Mixed-Use Projects

  April 1, 2020

  Seeking innovative ways to accommodate Toronto’s growing population, developers across the city are launching “mega-mixed-use” projects that are redefining urban living for generations to come.

• 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.