Improving operating fundamentals and limited supply growth support performance, but inflation, pricing power, and geopolitical risk cloud the outlook.
Explore key takeaways from ULI Arizona’s 21st Annual Trends Day, covering the 2026 economic outlook, AI-driven disaster recovery, and Arizona’s nuclear energy future.
ULI’s Women’s Leadership Initiative introduces a cohort-based model to advance leadership development and succession planning.
Discover how firms like Hart Howerton integrate coastal resilience into architecture, using forward-looking science to design buildings that endure for 70+ years.
Industry Voices
A billion-dollar-plus airport terminal illustrates how integrated delivery, early stakeholder alignment, and structured governance can change the odds for major infrastructure projects.
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.
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.
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.
Capital Markets & Finance
Economists analyze the rising risk of stagflation. Discover how high inflation and low growth could impact multifamily, retail, and industrial property values through 2026.
Industry experts examine how a widening wealth gap is creating a two-tier demand structure, boosting luxury assets while introducing new fragilities for mass-market commercial real estate
Navigating the 2026 Build: Why developers are gaining leverage with contractors even as copper prices and skilled labor scarcity remain structural hurdles
ULI Advisory Services
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.
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.
Urban Land Contributors
