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The Summer 2025 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. This special issue is dedicated to Project Recovery in Los Angeles, with contributions from member leaders including Lew C. Horne and Claire De Briere. Also covered is the ULI Advisory Services team’s work on Panther Island in Fort Worth, Texas.
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RXR CEO and Chairman Scott Rechler, in a recent ULI members-only webinar with ULI Foundation Chair Faron A. Hill, described the challenges and opportunities ahead as an epic, unavoidable storm. “That hurricane … eventually, it’s going to hit land,” Rechler warned. “The question is when it hits, how hard it hits, and where it hits the hardest.”
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It’s tough to view a strong economy as bad news. Yet a firmly positive economic projection in ULI’s Real Estate Economic Forecast does not bode well for commercial real estate participants who are hoping for relief in rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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In a general session at the 2024 ULI Spring Meeting, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Ralph Rosenberg, a partner and global head of real estate with KKR. Clinton, who now teaches at Columbia University, focused her remarks on what she said are the three major conflicts affecting the global economy.
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The Manhattan office market is beginning to make a comeback, but much has changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The persistence of hybrid and remote work have changed the equation for commercial rentals, both in terms of landlord-tenant relationships and the quality of office product on offer.
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Since the retirement of Urban Land Institute’s Global CEO Ron Pressman in October 2023, the search for a visionary global leader has taken center stage. As the Institute charts its course in shaping the built environment for transformative impact within communities worldwide, finding the right leader is paramount.
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As the recent cultural and real estate realignment called “The Great Mall Sorting” continues, A-plus malls are thriving, while the B and C properties are gradually being repurposed, reused, and completely rethought, according to architect Sean Slater, senior principal at the architectural firm RDC in San Diego.
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Potential trouble brewing in a sector that has been viewed as relatively bulletproof multifamily sector is concerning. But while stress is very much real, industry participants are quick to point out that the overall foundation for multifamily remains strong. “The cracks that we’re seeing are not structural; they’re superficial,” says Vincent DiSalvo, chief investment officer at Kingbird Investment Management, a family office investment firm specializing in multifamily.
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ULI MEMBER-ONLY CONTENT: According to the latest ULI Real Estate Economic Forecast, investors are expected to buy just $312 billion in commercial real estate in 2023. That’s a fraction of the volume of sales in 2021 and $100 billion less than expected in the spring forecast just six months ago.
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Real estate economists continue to expect a slowdown in the U.S. economy and real estate markets over the next year, consistent with their outlook six months ago, according to a ULI survey. The economy will slow meaningfully in 2024 before improving in 2025. The Real Estate Economic Forecast, produced by the ULI Center for Real Estate Economics and Capital Markets Estate, is based on a survey including 39 economists and analysts at 35 leading real estate organizations.
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The Summer 2023 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Design for Net Zero: Taking a holistic approach to sustainable development.”
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The Spring 2023 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Urban Suburbs: Innovative strategies to solve the global housing shortage.”
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After nearly eight years, workers are returning to a former General Electric factory in Fort Wayne. A complex financial package helped create a new home for one of Indiana’s largest employers at this postindustrial site in the U.S. Midwest.
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Ten projects leverage public and private resources to realize complex new developments.
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The Winter 2023 issue of
Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Exacting Standards: Outlook for property and development in 2023.”
Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Exacting Standards: Outlook for property and development in 2023.”
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The Fall 2022 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Changing Locations: Transit-rich Destinations Embrace a Hybrid Future.”
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: The Spring 2022 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “The Housing Issue: Smart solutions to meet a growing need.”
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: Members of ULI’s Public/Private Partnership Councils discuss how public/private collaborations are evolving; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; project types with strong potential for public/private partnerships in the coming year; ways to better incorporate provisions for sustainability, resilience, and equity; and other trends.
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT:In the past year, while investors have been eager to pour capital into the burgeoning build-to-rent (BRT) single-family residence market, in many cases they are finding plenty of roadblocks to profit, said panelists at the 2021 ULI Fall Meeting. Development sites are harder to find, the price of new construction has soared, and builders are finding they can make more money selling homes to buyers.
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: Speaking at the 2021 ULI Fall Meeting, panelists discussed recent transactions in the office sector and which segments had performed the best.
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ULI MEMBER—ONLY CONTENT:The Winter 2022 issue of Urban Landis now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Outlook 2022: Real Estate Proves Resilient.”
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: How can urban cores rebound from the pandemic? Members of ULI’s Urban Revitalization councils discuss the pandemic’s potential long-term effects on development in urban cores, opportunities for creative redevelopment, steps that municipalities can take, ways to enhance resilience in urban cores, and other trends.
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The Fall 2021 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Urban Living: How the Pandemic Is Shaping Cities.” Other topics include “Net Zero: Chicago’s C40 Competition” and “Infrastructure: Managing Stormwater.”
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Eight new hotels are now under construction in Chicago’s central business district, totaling about 1,500 new rooms, according to the latest list from STR Group. Developers are also planning to start construction on more than a dozen other new hotel projects, totaling an additional 3,700 new rooms.
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: What is coming for travel services, concessions, commercial development, and logistics?
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: The dramatic increase in online shopping in the United States has only further increased the appetite for properties close to population centers.
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: Since 1997, Pacoima Beautiful has worked with the community to reclaim open areas and create beautiful recreational spaces throughout the historic Los Angeles neighborhood. One of its first completed projects, the Bradley Plaza Green Alley, transforms an underused alleyway into a green public space and reimagines how alleys can be repurposed to best serve the communities in which they are situated.
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ULI Member–Only Content: When first opened, City Center Square—also home to an indoor shopping mall and food court—was one of downtown Kansas City’s standout office towers. But after a half century, the building began to show its age, changing hands at 40 percent occupancy and the food court was down to just two vendors.
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The Summer 2021 issue of Urban Land is now available for ULI members. The cover topic is “Airport Connections: Development Ties Travel, Logistics, and Cyberspace.”
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