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In his book, Alexandros Washburn writes that “nothing important in a city can change without an alignment of politics, finance, and design.” As New York City’s chief urban designer under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he played a key role in the planning and building of the High Line, the 21st century’s most notable civic design project. That experience shaped his view of city design.

A wake-up call regarding the rising tide of older Americans on course to swamp the nation’s housing resources has been issued by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and AARP.

Operationalizing ULI’s Net Zero Mission Priority

Examining the misconceptions about millennials and housing as discussed in ULI’s recent report, Gen Y and Housing: What They Want and Where They Want It.

Recent volatility in the debt capital markets, caused primarily by the mere suggestion that the Federal Reserve might scale back its bond-buying program later this year, is causing any number of transactions to be put on hold. With rates in flux there seems to be “paralysis of analysis” taking place.

The equity and debt markets re-opened Wednesday, while Friday’s jobs numbers were better than the majority of analysts projected, with upward adjustments to prior monthly totals. Treasury yields ended the shortened week about where they started.

Spreads reported by Trepp LLC continued to narrow, coming in approximately 10 basis points during the survey period; mortgage capital remains both available and affordable, even with many lender’s instituting floor pricing.

ULI Americas President Gwyneth Cote emphasized to Spring Meeting attendees the importance of connecting the Institute’s local initiatives to other areas of the organization, sharing insights based on numerous meetings with district councils since joining ULI’s executive team in December. “Each visit reaffirms the much-cited quote ‘ULI is only as strong globally as it is locally,’” Cote said

Ten developments from across North America have been selected as winners of the 2022 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence. The winners of the ULI Americas Awards for Excellence become finalists for the 2022 ULI Global Awards for Excellence, competing against projects from Europe and Asia. The Institute will announce the winners of the Global Awards ahead of the 2022 ULI Fall Meeting in October.

Commercial real estate already faces many challenges because of an unprecedented rise in interest rates, tightening credit capacity, uncertainty in the office market, a $2.6 trillion wave of maturing debt over the next four years, and overall economic anxiety. Adding to this complexity, financial regulators are pushing for a significant increase in capital requirements—by as much as 20 percent—for the nation’s largest banks via the Basel III “endgame.”