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.
A strategy built on customer research, targeted capital improvements, and curated leasing demonstrates how established retail centers can remain competitive.
From transit-oriented development to reclaimed waterfronts, this year’s winners redefine community-centered design and resilience across the Americas.
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.
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
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.
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.