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.
Redevelopment and backfill prospects for a surging supply of vacant drugstores
Hendricks Commercial transformed what was formerly one of the largest bottling facilities in the world while preserving the Art Deco terracotta facade.
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
Otemachi One, the largest mixed-use development in Tokyo’s Otemachi District, combines offices, shops, event venues, a luxury hotel, and expansive public green space at the threshold of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace. The development occupies a prime site that was previously home to three office buildings, including Mitsui & Co.’s former headquarters.
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.
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.
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.
FORUM, a life sciences building developed by Lendlease, is the first purpose-built life sciences building in Boston Landing, a mixed-use district in the city’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood. Targeting LEED Platinum, the recently opened building employs numerous strategies that enable companies to meet stringent regulatory requirements, reduce their carbon footprint, and achieve net zero operations.
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