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Recently, Urban Land magazine compiled a list of the 25 most influential transportation infrastructure people on Twitter—a platform that allows users to follow trends and share important information.
“CMBS: Modest New Issuance Growth; 2007 Maturities Struggling,” says Standard & Poor’s.
Thanks at least in part to the Super Bowl, people in Indianapolis will wake up to the football off-season next week with a newly expanded convention center, a new central civic space, a newly revitalized low-income neighborhood, even a new downtown skyline.
Urban planners and developers in the United States should partner with-or launch-charter schools to take advantage of their urban development potential.
Little on the horizon promises change, but there are three ways the federal government could revive housing, says John L. McIlwain, ULI’s senior resident fellow, housing. The two most significant ideas are politically controversial and would require stronger leadership than has been shown on housing to date.
Based on the Federal Reserve’s pronouncement this week that it would be keeping short-term interest rates at the current historical low through 2014, we should expect rates to remain at today’s levels for the next three years, baring a global financial crises, Stephen Blank, ULI’s senior resident fellow, capital markets.
Six members of ULI’s Recreational Development Council discuss what is affecting their market, including the prospects for the resort and vacation home industry in an uncertain economy, the mind-set of potential buyers, the changing nature of second-home products, and strategies for navigating the challenges ahead.
The tide is turning for pension fund advisers. For example, in Texas, equity firms seeking state pension fund business must now compete for it—and get onto a “premier list” of top-performing managers.
There seems to be a consensus that the stimulus programs have failed to meet the needs of the real estate sector, but objections appear to be directed more to tactics than to overall strategy, say several ULI council members.
Things changed for the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1992, when the country embraced a new development model that made it a recovery blueprint for other cities to follow.