A Sense of Place—Revitalizing Downtowns Through Smart Placemaking
Can third spaces help downtowns bounce back from the pandemic?
July 30, 2024, Urban Land
UL10: Next-Generation Design Firms
Ten projects showcase clever urban interventions spearheaded by principals under age 50.
July 22, 2024, Urban Land
Rekindling San Francisco’s Downtown by Reviving Its Streets
ULI San Francisco recently hosted a panel revisiting the recommendations made by ULI Advisory Servies panelists to revive the downtown and highlighting the progress that has been made.
July 15, 2024, Urban Land
UL10: Micro-Housing
Ten projects deliver compact residential spaces that offer more affordable city living options, foster community, and minimize environmental impacts.
May 14, 2024
July 22, 2024, Urban Land
Outlook for Housing Attainability
Experts discuss the growing crisis of housing attainability for lower- and middle-income households across the United States, including ways the private and public sectors could help increase housing production, preserve existing affordable housing, and give more people access to housing; strategies for encouraging communities to accept more housing construction; and other related trends.
August 14, 2023
Creating Attainable Housing for the Workforce in Resort Communities
Resort communities are appealing places to live year round, with stunning natural beauty and recreational opportunities in abundance. However, the same factors that make these places attractive can make them difficult for locals.
February 21, 2023
Building a Beacon of Hope on Chicago’s South Side: The Obama Presidential Center
Slated to open in Jackson Park in 2025, the Obama Presidential Center aims to meet ambitious workforce development goals for construction, said representatives from the Obama Foundation at the 2021 Fall Meeting in Chicago.
October 12, 2021, Urban Land
Grace Farms Takes Aim at Modern Slavery in the Building Industry
The foundation’s Design for Freedom report and initiative aim to raise awareness about forced labor in material supply chains and construction.
September 22, 2021, Metropolis
Assessing the Impact of the SEC’s New Climate Disclosure Rules on the Real Estate Industry
Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued new rules requiring public companies to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures. The rules phase in over time, requiring the largest companies or public investor shares to begin making climate risk disclosures in 2025.
March 11, 2024, Urban Land
UL10: Green Financing
Ten projects take advantage of financial tools that promote environmentally positive development
January 29, 2024, Urban Land
UL10: Mass Timber
Ten structures showcase the lightweight, carbon-sequestering power of mass timber.
November 27, 2023, Urban Land
UL10: Geothermal Energy
Ten developments take advantage of the environmental and operational benefits of geothermal energy.
September 25, 2023, Urban Land
Outlook for Office-to-Residential Conversions: What Opportunities Remain for Revamping Office Buildings as Multifamily Residences?
Experts speak about the near-term prospects for converting office buildings into multifamily housing, best practices for evaluating conversion potential, innovative ways the public sector can support these projects, and other related trends.
May 13, 2024, Urban Land
7 Dazzling Art Deco Buildings for Architecture Admirers
Seven historic U.S. Art Deco structures embody the Jazz Age’s optimism and glamor.
Spring 2023, Preservation
Adapting an Art Deco Banking Center: The Rebirth of First National Center of Oklahoma City
A grand 1930s banking hall in Oklahoma City is transformed into a mixed-use hotel building
May 3, 2022, Urban Land
A Rebuilt Historic Cable Car Gets Ready to Return to San Francisco's Streets
Rebuilding the 1890s-era Powell Street Cable Car #8
February 1, 2022, Preservation
Adding Life Sciences Space in Proximity to Academic Institutions in Northern California
Berkeley, California, is emerging as a hub for life sciences and technology firms, with new developments opening in the West Berkeley neighborhood. In June, ULI San Francisco hosted a walking tour through two campuses targeting life sciences research and development tenants at the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay: theLAB Berkeley and Berkeley Commons.
June 24, 2024, Urban Land
How the Real Estate Industry Can Effectively Leverage AI
A futurist discussed the potential integrating artificial intelligence into the commercial real estate industry in a general session at the 2023 ULI Fall Meeting in Los Angeles.
November 13, 2023, Urban Land
Outlook for Technology: Asia Pacific
Members of ULI’s Asia Pacific Tech Council discuss the potential long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the real estate industry.
March 15, 2021, Urban Land
ULX: Life Sciences Buildings
Ten research and education facilities make connections with nature, existing campuses, and communities.
March 09, 2020, Urban Land