Spring Meeting
Pandemic Creates New Opportunities for Public Space
Developers share how different cities deployed creative ideas to help maintain urban vitality and business opportunities despite restrictions on public gatherings. Their successful techniques may outlast the pandemic.
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Five Cost-Effective Technologies Enabling Buildings to Reach Net Zero
The path to net-zero buildings may sound daunting, but five technologies can help break it down: reduce building energy demand as much as possible, use sensors to optimize what cannot be eliminated, and turn to renewables to meet whatever demand remains through on-site and then off-site options, with batteries to make sure the power is there when needed. Experts speaking at an on-demand session outlined how key technologies can work in concert to achieve the net-zero goal.
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Vibrant New Neighborhoods Rise on Old Industrial Sites in Toronto
West Don Lands and the Canary District, Liberty Village, and Concord CityPlace demonstrate urban renewal done well.
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The Well: Adding Walkable Mixed-Use Density to Downtown Toronto
An ambitious seven-building development near Toronto’s urban core is an innovative effort to deliver density and a diverse range of uses, along with a walkable urban environment, plenty of green space, and innovative energy storage technology.
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Drawing High-End Consumers Back to Mixed-Use Retail
May 27, 2020In a discussion of the ongoing transformation of U.S. retail, panelists participating in the 2020 ULI Spring Meeting Webinar Series agreed that the authenticity, differentiation, and transparency creating a sense of place in mixed-use retail spaces are likely to be what consumers seek in the future. Single-use spaces are about convenience, but that is only half of what consumers say they are looking for.
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Survey: U.S. Commercial Real Estate Sector Expected to Be Resilient in Recovery
May 18, 2020According to survey data from the latest ULI Real Estate Economic Forecast, the current economic recession will be short-lived in the United States, with above-average gross domestic product growth returning in 2021 and 2022. Second, the impact on real estate market conditions and values will be relatively modest and much less severe than the impact experienced during the global financial crisis, with some exceptions by sector.
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ULI Coastal Forum Looks at How Toronto Is Floodproofing for the Future
In 2013, Toronto had record-high rainfall and flash flooding that overwhelmed urban stormwater and river systems, and ultimately caused an estimated $940 million in damage payouts. In 2019, Lake Ontario experienced record lake level conditions. Waterfront Toronto is in the process of transforming this vulnerable site to both revitalize the city’s eastern waterfront and manage flood risk.
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Sidewalk Labs Planning Its Next Steps for Urban Innovation
May 15, 2020Sidewalk Labs recently announced that it would withdraw from a proposed smart city project in Toronto. But Sidewalk is already in talks to repurpose those innovations, said participants in ULI’s Spring Meeting Webinar Series.
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Cities within Cities: Toronto’s New Mega-Mixed-Use Projects
April 1, 2020Seeking innovative ways to accommodate Toronto’s growing population, developers across the city are launching “mega-mixed-use” projects that are redefining urban living for generations to come.
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Driving Dense and Sustainable Growth in Toronto’s Thriving Suburbs
March 23, 2020During a period of phenomenal growth in which Toronto has had more cranes in the sky than any other North American city, a new form of city region with multiple urban centers has started to emerge in the Greater Toronto Area. This new city region is propelled by powerful economic and social forces and spurred by the imperative of a more sustainable future.