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.
As demand for data centers grows across the region, access to power, engineering requirements, and government policy are increasingly shaping where facilities can be built and how investors should assess their value.
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.
Industry Voices
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.
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 strategy built on customer research, targeted capital improvements, and curated leasing demonstrates how established retail centers can remain competitive.
As electric vehicle adoption accelerates, general contractors explore how underused commercial properties can become the next generation of neighborhood infrastructure.
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.
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.
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-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.