Three years of industry feedback have helped the landmark housing law evolve as developers put it to the test.
The transformation of a 1973 Washington office building into the organization’s Global Campus for Architecture & Design offers a model for decarbonizing—and extending the life of—aging commercial buildings.
The former Miami Beach mayor looks back at the revitalization of South Beach, the rise of a global real estate market, and the challenges now facing the region.
Award-winning developments reveal how the region is tackling affordability, resilience, historic preservation, neighborhood revitalization, and mobility.
Industry Voices
As market demands evolve, adaptive reuse is helping owners identify new uses for edifices whose original functions no longer align with how people live, work, and travel.
As seen in New Jersey, redevelopment and demolition remove obsolete office buildings from the market, while communities are rethinking how aging commercial properties can better serve changing economic and demographic realities.
Empty buildings don’t simply wait for redevelopment. They shape investment, street life, and neighborhood momentum in ways that tax policy and makeover economics rarely measure.
West transforms a long-isolated civic area into a residential, office, and retail district designed to restore pedestrian connections and support the city’s ongoing evolution at its core.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma illustrates how tribal nations are using casino revenue and long-range master planning to turn gaming success into lasting investments in housing, infrastructure, health care, and economic opportunity.
As electric vehicle adoption accelerates, general contractors explore how underused commercial properties can become the next generation of neighborhood infrastructure.
Capital Markets
Economists point to a weakening labor market, persistent inflation, and rising borrowing costs as key risks for commercial real estate—even as consumer spending and property demand remain resilient.
A roundtable co-convened 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.