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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: Hong Kong real estate developer Adrian Cheng is investing heavily in China’s emerging Greater Bay Area, touted as the up-and-coming Silicon Valley and Wall Street of the East. During ULI Asia Pacific’s virtual REimagine conference, Cheng said that his company now controls a land bank of about 290 hectares (nearly 717 acres) in the region.

Over the past half-century, west Philadelphia’s University City district—located across the Schuylkill River from Center City—has morphed from a blighted urban neighborhood into a thriving mixed-use hub for higher education, health care, and tech startups. In the process, it has become a template for other old industrial cities striving to remake themselves, said panelists speaking at the ULI Spring Meeting.

For much of the 20th century, the banking hall at the First National Center in Oklahoma City served as a showpiece for the downtown financial district.

Washington, D.C., is not only the capital of the United States, but also the darling of the capital markets, with real estate that is “close to fully priced,” said Greg Vorwaller, head of global capital markets for Cushman & Wakefield, at ULI Washington’s annual Real Estate Trends Conference. But how long will the good times roll?

As sage smoke wafted up, the knowledge holder gently waved an eagle feather from side to side, enveloping the booklet. And with that, the ground-breaking Guide to Truth and Reconciliation in Land Development was cleansed, blessed, and released to the world.

Twenty-six extraordinary developments from around the globe have been selected as finalists in ULI’s 2016 Global Awards for Excellence. This year’s finalists include two in Asia, six in Europe, and 18 in North America.

Alec Appelbaum has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, and many leading publications on topics including climate change and conservation finance. He is news editor at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and the author of several project profiles on ULI’s Developing Urban Resilience website.

Steven E. Goldin is director of real estate for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and former chairman and CEO of InterCap Holdings, a New Jersey developer of transit-oriented development. (Metro’s transit-oriented development website—www.wmata.com/business/joint_development_ opportunities/tod—provides a full overview of some of the projects currently in the development ipeline. )

Variety, stimulation, and an atmosphere of tolerance help attract people who can afford to be choosy about where they live.

Urban blight remains the single biggest challenge to large-scale revitalization efforts underway in the city of Detroit, said Dan Gilbert, founder and CEO of Rock Ventures and Quicken Loans, speaking at a ULI conference on public-private partnerships.