Clare De Briere, executive vice president and regional manager in Los Angeles for Skanska USA Commercial Development, has been appointed chair of ULI’s Americas Executive Committee. She will serve on a voluntary basis for a two-year term starting July 1, and has also joined the Institute’s Global Board of Directors.

Members and staff from five ULI district councils—three in the United States and two in Canada—gathered during ULI’s Spring Meeting in San Diego. Over the next 18 months, these five ULI district councils, which make up the Institute’s District Council Partnerships for Health Equity group, will seek to further understand and acknowledge historical inequities and racial discrimination within the land use industry.

Tukwila in South King County, a suburb of Seattle, is a diverse, growing, immigrant-rich community that struggles with its reputation as a high crime area. It is one of two neighborhoods that ULI Northwest is setting its sights on for its ULI Building Healthy Places Partnership project.

Learning from the past is at the crux of ULI British Columbia’s focus. That district council aims to facilitate research to help provide solutions for the development community to “break down the barriers to housing and other factors that have historically been obstacles for Indigenous health and success,” according to Sheryl Peters, provincial director of redevelopment at BC Housing.

ULI and Hines, the global real estate firm, have announced details about the finalist teams and the jury for the third annual ULI Hines Student Competition – Europe. Six multidisciplinary teams have been selected from a range of applications from across Europe to participate in this prestigious student competition for integrated and multidisciplinary urban regeneration. The teams have been drawn from an eclectic mix of universities, business schools, and other education establishments to encourage diversity in the real estate sector.

A group of ULI district councils has been working to examine local histories of racial discrimination in land use and transportation and current health equity disparities.

The latest Reading List from Urban Landis now available on ULI’s Knowledge Finder, covering the nearly $100 billion worldwide industry of parking.

ULI global CEO Ed Walter welcomed attendees to the 2022 ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego with the debut of a new mission tagline: “Where the Future Is Built.” Walter and ULI global chair Peter Ballon then discussed in a fireside chat how ULI has fared through the past year of the pandemic.