The boom in data center development has a lot of community pushback against their water and power use. A recent convening of ULI’s development coalition explored the standards and certifications that can help the industry meet demand responsibly.
At recent monthly breakfast, ULI Austin experts highlight emerging technologies that increase safety, reduce costs, and eliminate weather delays.
As a member of a ULI Advisory Services Panel in Buffalo, Chapman helped shape recommendations for a historic Black corridor facing decades of disinvestment. He reflects on community trust, creative problem-solving, and what it takes to turn vision into lasting impact.
Discover how firms like Hart Howerton integrate coastal resilience into architecture, using forward-looking science to design buildings that endure for 70+ years.
Project Profiles
Hendricks Commercial transformed what was formerly one of the largest bottling facilities in the world while preserving the Art Deco terracotta facade.
Industry Voices
From stadium-anchored destinations to experience districts, successful mixed-use sports and entertainment developments are evolving into adaptable, community-centered places that deliver cultural relevance, financial performance, and economic activity every day.
Despite a perfect storm of housing shortages, climate risks, and stalled downtowns, urban design is emerging as a positive, coordinating force to meet these challenges, bridging policy, capital, and community to achieve a common goal. Gensler’s latest research highlights where cities are already adopting this new ethos—and what civic leaders need to do now.
Commercial real estate professionals and AI engineers often approach problems in fundamentally different ways. Bridging that translation gap may be the key to unlocking billions in untapped value.
Redevelopment and one family’s fight reshaped a city.
It’s not as if the old two-story building at the corner of 12th and Remington Court, in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood, was ever particularly remarkable. Even in its original incarnation, it was a straightforward, utilitarian, mixed-use structure—competently built but not especially well-proportioned or ornately detailed.
Urban Land sat down with ULI Visionary Jonathan Rose during the Institute’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco to learn more about his four-decade ULI membership and the work that lies ahead.
Repurposing Aging U.S. Federal Buildings
Decades of underfunded upkeep across federal properties have created a mounting repair backlog that threatens agency operations and could grow dramatically without portfolio reductions and policy reforms.
Nine federal properties across the Southeast are under review as policymakers weigh consolidation, disposal, and adaptive reuse strategies to reduce costs and return underused buildings to local communities.
Best practices for acquisition and redevelopment
ULI Advisory Services
In November 2024, ULI’s Advisory Services program partnered with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Buffalo Branch, the Buffalo Urban League, and local civic leaders to support the revitalization of Buffalo’s historic Jefferson Avenue Corridor.
ULI Advisory Services Panels bring together leading experts to help communities navigate their most pressing land use and development challenges. What happens after the recommendations are delivered, though? One year on, we checked back with this community in Fort Worth, Texas, to see how panel insights have turned into action and how ULI’s work is helping to shape meaningful, lasting progress.
New resilience framework touches on infrastructure, economy, equity, housing, and cultural vitality.
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