Residential
An isolated, crime-ridden, half-empty public housing enclave is being transformed into a mixed-income, higher-density neighborhood newly connected to San Francisco’s urban grid.
During a panel at the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago, Chris Bledsoe, chief executive officer of Stage 3 Properties, illustrated the ongoing crisis in affordable housing in places like New York City by showing a craigslist post for a “room” with three-foot (1 m) ceilings.
As Americans spend more and more time online using multiple devices, higher-speed internet connections are shifting from a luxury to a necessity, panelists said at the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago.
While multifamily development in the urban core has boomed, the prospects for suburban development are more mixed, said experts at ULI’s annual meeting in Chicago.
At a panel at ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago, panelists and audience participatns were asked what innovations Apple Computer’s founder and CEO would have undertaken had he been a residential developer.
The ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing has announced the five winners of this year’s housing awards.
The growth in the single-family rental market has been labeled by some as a soon-to-be passing fancy -- a fad that will cease to exist once the housing market rights itself. But panelists at ULI’s Fall Meeting in Chicago say the niche business is here to stay.
A new land bank in Cook County, Illinois, plans to get vacant foreclosed homes back to productive life.
Former ULI chairman J. Ronald Terwilliger has been chosen as this year’s winner of the J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, the Institute’s highest honor.
From the time it was completed on Earth Day in April 2012, Paisano Senior Housing, a 73-unit environmentally friendly community in El Paso, Texas, for the elderly and persons with disabilities, has been focused on green energy. Using power from a large photovoltaic array plus wind turbines, the complex produces as much energy over a calendar year as the occupants use.