ULI-backed strategies helped this coastal California locale build its economic base on industry. Now, a proposed AI-era manufacturing building and a massive new housing plan are poised to test that strategy—and reshape the town.
Long before sea level rise adaptation became standard practice, a former San Francisco military site demonstrated how restored shorelines could protect cities, expand public access, and create lasting civic value.
A new ULI report identifies five best practices for integrating artists throughout the development process and helping to create stronger projects, more successful placemaking, and long-term value.
From power plants and candy factories to newspaper printing plants, obsolete large-scale buildings are finding new life as housing, offices, markets, schools, health care facilities, and community gathering spaces.
Capital Markets
With price discovery still constrained, economists debate whether commercial real estate values are underestimating long-term risks, future cash flows, and the market’s next investment cycle.
A roundtable co-convenved by ULI, CREFC, and IBHS found that more consistent building and resilience inputs could help owners, lenders, and insurers better evaluate physical risk, strengthen underwriting, and support investment choices.
From C-PACE financing to tax credits and private capital, resilience investments are helping to protect assets, improve business continuity, and preserve property value.
Housing
Five ways in which the legislation will shift the funding and regulatory landscape.
Climate risk is forcing owners, lenders, and insurers to rethink how resilient buildings are valued.
Eastrail Flats illustrates how strategic public-private partnerships, mixed-use development, and mobility investments can reinvent an aging suburban downtown.
Industry Voices
As developers ready for a wave of sexagenarians and people nearing that age, communities for them are evolving with age-in-place features, greater flexibility, wellness, and technology.
Completed in 2025, the project integrates a restored church, a 57-story residential tower, rental housing, child-care facilities, and community space.
A new ULI report identifies five characteristics shared by successful mixed-use redevelopments of former factories, breweries, shipyards, and other industrial sites.
The city’s overhaul of permitting, plan review, and long-range planning offers practical lessons for municipalities seeking to speed housing and commercial development.
Cleveland’s Midline project pioneers a new district-scale model to transform vacant industrial brownfields into hubs for advanced manufacturing and good jobs.
Corporate financing troubles have dominated the conversation, but multifamily continues to benefit from active competition among real estate lenders.