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Nov 19, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Colin Galloway |Karen Jordan |Anthony Teles
Type: Affordable housing fundDate Founded: 2016First Property Purchased: 2018Units Acquired in First Five Years: 2,150Value of Those Units: $400 millionIn 2015, Austin, Texas’ mayor at the time, Steve Adler, brought together business leaders, real estate professionals, and housing experts to take on the rental housing affordability crisis threatening the city’s workforce stability and economic sustainability.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ella Fertitta |Ken Rhee |Hannah Miet |Colin Galloway
Ten developments from across North America have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 2024 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence. ULI began the Awards for Excellence program in 1979 to recognize superior development efforts in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Winning projects represent the highest standards of achievement in the land use profession and encompass a wide range of land uses, sizes, investments, and geographic locations.
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Jul 26, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Ella Fertitta |Ken Rhee |Hannah Miet |Colin Galloway
Ten developments from across North America have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 2024 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence. ULI began the Awards for Excellence program in 1979 to recognize superior development efforts in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Winning projects represent the highest standards of achievement in the land use profession and encompass a wide range of land uses, sizes, investments, and geographic locations.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Peter Krech |Hannah Miet |Colin Galloway |Ron Nyren
West Main, a 1,030,000-square-foot (95,690 sq m) office, retail, and mixed-use project, is the new home to some of Amazon’s 12,000-person workforce in Bellevue, Washington. The three-building project, designed by Graphite Design Group in collaboration with Compton Design Office for Vulcan Real Estate, is transforming this city neighboring Seattle to the east.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Colin Galloway
As owners and investors face mounting pressure to make new projects compliant with modern environmental standards, the concept of “whole-life” carbon has become a focus of increased interest. The model approximates the total emissions of a structure, both during construction and over its lifespan. A panel at the 2024 Asia Pacific Summit in Tokyo took a hard look at the implications of this approach.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Jose Sanchez |Jose Sánchez |José Carlos Sánchez |Lucy Scott |Brett Widness |Colin Galloway
If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that our society’s deep desire to return to “normal” has sparked a reevaluation of what normal should entail. As urban populations continue to grow, and individuals look to reclaim their place in the community, the question arises: have our downtowns evolved enough to meet these new demands?
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Lucy Scott |Brett Widness |Colin Galloway
The day before ULI San Francisco held a June panel discussion titled “Taking It to the Streets: Boosting Street Life to Revitalize Downtown San Francisco,” the San Francisco Chronicle published an article underscoring the area’s difficulties. It cited data from Avison Young suggesting that 18 years may pass before downtown returns to its pre-pandemic office vacancy rate.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Sibley Fleming |Brett Widness |Colin Galloway |Deborah L Myerson
On Thursday, CREW DC, AAREP DC, and ULI Washington delivered the third and final program in a series intended to demystify valuations and provide practical insights on negotiating equity and debt. Held at the offices King & Spalding at 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, Julia Stevenson, head of acquisitions at Langdon Park Capital, served as moderator.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Colin Galloway |Deborah L Myerson
More than $1 trillion in loan maturities are looming over the commercial real estate market “like a hurricane” off the U.S. coast—an enormous threat that grows with each day that interest rates remain high. RXR CEO and Chairman Scott Rechler, in a recent ULI members-only webinar with ULI Foundation Chair Faron A. Hill, described the challenges and opportunities ahead as an epic, unavoidable storm. “That hurricane … eventually, it’s going to hit land,” Rechler warned.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Colin Galloway |Marta Schantz |Deborah L Myerson
The final day of the 2024 ULI Asia Pacific summit in Tokyo featured a capital markets panel with leaders from both European and North American funds, who shared their insights into the region’s real estate markets—and how those markets stack up against their global counterparts. Taking a high-level perspective, the panel’s consensus was that liquidity overall remains tight, even as regional economic growth continues to give an edge to the Asia Pacific.
