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2 months ago | 
urbanland.uli.org | Brett Widness |Ella Fertitta
According to CBRE’s “North America Data Center Trends H2 2024" report, the overall vacancy rate in primary markets fell to a record-low 1.9 percent at year-end. Only a handful of facilities with 10 MW or more are slated for delivery in 2025 and are not yet leased, reflecting the scarcity of large-scale available inventory. Also from the report:Atlanta led all primary markets for net absorption in 2024 with 705.8 MW, well above perennial leader Northern Virginia’s 451.7 MW.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ella Fertitta |Ron Nyren |Joey Udrea
As an industry, we are all collectively responsible for mitigating the challenges arising from climate change, from governments and global businesses to our local communities. But how can our urban neighborhoods be empowered and incentivized to address decarbonization? To be effective and successful, collaboration is a critical requirement for neighborhood decarbonization, with buy-in from diverse stakeholders being essential.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ella Fertitta |Ron Nyren
Drawing by C. William Brubaker, AIA. The Perkins and Will Partnership, for Schools for America, the American Association of School Administrators, publishers. July-August 1967: Thurston H. Ross delivered a speech on high-rise schools, the abandonment of the front and back yard concept for suburban homes, and a return to the town meeting type of government in the future.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
americas.uli.org | Ella Fertitta
Atlanta, GA (February 25, 2025) – Today the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and research partner RCLCO, released the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing’s 2025 Home Attainability Index, a data-rich tool measuring affordability, connectivity, racial disparity, and growth across the United States at the MSA, county, and census tract levels.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Patrick Kiger |Ella Fertitta |Ron Nyren
Joseph E. Brown, a pioneering landscape architect, urban planner, and ULI Life Trustee who championed innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration to solve challenges in the built environment, has passed away at the age of 77. A ULI member for more than three decades, Brown served in many leadership roles in the organization and was a tireless champion of his home district council, ULI San Francisco.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Hannah Miet |Ella Fertitta |Alby Gallun |Beth Mattson-Teig
Conversions of office buildings for residential uses are becoming increasingly viable in some regions. According to Steven Paynter, a principal at Gensler who leads the firm’s global building transformation and adaptive use practice, office-to-residential conversions are viable in 25–30 percent of the buildings his team analyzes.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
americas.uli.org | Ella Fertitta
Las Vegas, NV (October 29, 2024) – Today, PwC and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Americas released Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2025, the real estate industry’s leading annual report. Now in its 46th edition, the forecasting report outlines new market dynamics, favored locations and property sector opportunities influencing the overall health of the industry.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
americas.uli.org | Ella Fertitta
WASHINGTON (August 15, 2024) – The Urban Land Institute (ULI) today announced the appointment of Mick Cornett, former mayor of Oklahoma City, as the ULI Canizaro/Klingbeil Fellow for Urban Development. Cornett served as mayor of Oklahoma City from 2005 to 2018, leading a major redevelopment plan for the urban core, bringing an NBA franchise to the city, creating an entertainment district that now brings two million visitors a year, and creating 80,000 new jobs.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Ella Fertitta |Rodney Crim
St. Louis, long known as the Gateway to the West, is rapidly becoming the gateway to the region’s future. Diverse communities have begun working together to make the city a major hub for cutting-edge innovations in aerospace, agriculture, finance, transportation, biosciences, entertainment, and much more.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Holly Dutton |Ella Fertitta |Michele Lerner
For many Americans, Nevada brings to mind stunning natural beauty and—for most, of course—Las Vegas, the country’s entertainment capital. What the state has not been well known for is its manufacturing industry, but that may be changing. Since 2017, when electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla opened its 5.8 million-square-foot (538,800 sq m) battery manufacturing facility in the desert outside Reno, Nevada, state officials have made efforts to grow the burgeoning industry in hubs statewide.
