Recent Articles

• Resilience Experts Examine Climate Issues Facing Florida’s Gulf Coast

  April 27, 2017

  ULI Tampa Bay’s Realizing Resilience report offers recommendations for St. Petersburg to be climate resilient in ways that benefit all residents of the community, regardless of income.

• T3 Office in Minneapolis Is Another Step Forward for Timber Construction

  April 20, 2017

  Hines is widely known for building glass-and-steel skyscrapers. So, it would seem that the developer is going a bit against the grain in its latest endeavor with a boutique office property in Minneapolis made largely of wood.

• Improving Seattle’s Lower Duwamish River Area

  April 17, 2017

  In 2015, ULI’s Advisory Services program convened a ULI resilience panel to study issues facing the area surrounding the Lower Duwamish Waterway, which is badly polluted with toxins and industrial waste and was identified in 2001 as a Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Two years later, the cleanup of the river continues and there is renewed interest in addressing the community issues.

• Seattle’s Transportation Transformation

  April 10, 2017

  In an area bound by waterways, public and private sector entities, supported by voters, pull out all the stops for better mobility.

• Three Cities Tapping into the U.S. Brewery Boom

  April 7, 2017

  Breweries have an almost magical ability to revitalize neighborhoods and even entire towns, according to panelists speaking at ULI’s 2017 Carolinas Meeting.

• Millennials’ Preferences Are Good News for Mixed-Income Development

  March 29, 2017

  With Denver’s population expanding from about 470,000 in 1990 to 700,000 today, many longtime residents in some gentrifying neighborhoods find it difficult to remain as rents, home prices, and property taxes climb. How do communities in other U.S. cities provide for both lower-income families and local culture while being revitalized?