Charles Schilke

May 9, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Hannah Miet |Matt Norris |Charles Schilke

The current hype around artificial intelligence (AI) has many in the real estate industry dreaming about harnessing it to assist with investment decisions. But there’s a giant stumbling block: too much bad data. AI models require voluminous data to be accurate, and commercial real estate data is not standardized or consistently high-integrity.

May 8, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Charles Schilke |Kara Kokernak

Donations to the ULI Foundation support a wide variety of programs, initiatives, and groups, and among the options, donors may choose to direct their gifts to their local ULI District Council. Three donors who have made recent substantial contributions to their respective District Councils—Jack Cohen, Marc Pollack, and Greg West—highlight the impact individuals can have on their local communities.

Apr 29, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Charles Schilke |Beth Mattson-Teig |Shlomi Ronen

America’s 36,000 homeless veterans, who constitute roughly 5 percent of the homeless population, deserve to move from homeless to housed as much as any affected group. Many homeless veterans have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and every day, 18 homeless veterans commit suicide. Most are not connected to any support services, indicating that homeless veterans need far better services.

Jul 10, 2023 | urbanland.uli.org | Charles Schilke

Top-down construction—constructing floors at ground level, then raising them to the top of the building and then successively downward—potentially offers an attractive alternative to conventional construction, with its costly, labor-intensive, and environmentally wasteful process of building steel frames, floors, walls, and all components of a building at height. But adoption of an advanced form of top-down construction has not become widespread.

Apr 19, 2023 | coastalnewstoday.com | Charles Schilke

At the ULI Coastal Forum, held in October at the 2022 ULI Fall Meeting in Dallas, about 45 ULI members heard expert panels deliver key insights on the state’s coastal issues and solutions to bring about greater resilience. ‍With a coastline over 3,300 miles (5,300 km) long and the greatest number of annual federally declared natural disasters of any state, Texas also has the country’s fastest-growing population, and 6 million of Texas’s 29 million people live along the coast.