In 2015, ULI’s Advisory Services program convened a ULI resilience panel to study issues facing the area surrounding the Lower Duwamish Waterway, which is badly polluted with toxins and industrial waste and was identified in 2001 as a Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Two years later, the cleanup of the river continues and there is renewed interest in addressing the community issues.

Immigrants have been and will continue to be a major source of U.S. housing demand and were critical to the recovery of housing markets after the 2009 recession, according to a report published by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing.

ULI Minnesota has launched the Healthy Communities Initiative, which proposes an ambitious capital improvement program for turning proposed freeway lids along the I-94 corridor into places that re-establish neighborhood connectivity, create economic opportunities for residents, and make new land available for civic and commercial uses.

A redevelopment plan for a Chicago site presented by a team from the University of Texas at Austin has taken top honors in the 2017 ULI Hines Student Competition, an ideas competition that provides graduate students the opportunity to devise a comprehensive design and development scheme for a large-scale site in an urban area.

How can the built environment facilitate connections between people? Improve the connections between cities and between public and private space? These are the questions posed by a report titled Connected Cities, published by global architecture firm Benoy and AsiaProperty. The report was launched during a recent event hosted by ULI Hong Kong.

ULI will sharpen the strategy of its Center for Sustainability to focus on programs and tools that provide real estate providers with actionable data to create value and improve environmental and economic performance of buildings and tenant spaces.

For the 2017 Spring Meeting, ULI is trying something a bit different: three concurrent sessions on Thursday, May 4, will be held outside the Washington State Convention Center at locations throughout Seattle, the 2017 ULI Spring Meeting host city.

Beyond Seattle there is much to explore around the Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest, and the Spring Meeting provides a great opportunity to delve into a few of the region’s smaller but fascinating markets.

A ULI Advisory Services panel met in Hong Kong to examine restrictions on building height aimed at preserving ridgeline views of the mountain peaks on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon from Quarry Bay, an emerging business district.

The ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing is examining the housing characteristics and residential location choices of the America’s foreign-born population to better understand the impact that immigrants could have on local housing markets.