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Dec 9, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme
Experts discuss how to rebuild urban cores by bringing the public and private sectors together to create thriving downtowns that entice remote workers to return to the office and broaden the mix of uses. How can the public and private sectors better work together to revitalize downtowns? Kate Collignon: One of the most important elements is leadership and the capacity to advance strategy and tactics.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme
Consumers have kept a steady foot on the gas this year. A record-high 197 million consumers shopped in stores or online over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). The NRF is forecasting that holiday sales will grow between 2.5 percent and 3.5 percent, with total retail spending in the United States falling between $979.5 billion and $989 billion during November and December.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Bendix Anderson |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme
The U.S. economy did very well in 2024, said Barbara Denham, lead economist for Oxford Economics, and the forecast for the coming year is more of the same—both in New York City and across North America. However, in presenting Oxford’s favorable economic forecast for 2025 at a ULI New York event last month, Denham also noted many caveats ahead of the incoming U.S. administration.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Holly Dutton |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme
Three decades ago, Oklahoma’s capital city experienced one of the worst terrorist acts in U.S. history. In an event that shocked the nation, the bombing of downtown Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the morning of April 19, 1995, killed 168 people and injured several hundred others. As city leaders faced picking up the pieces, a ULI Advisory Services Panel and report became a guiding star and helped forge a path for the city’s downtown.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme |Beth Mattson-Teig
Hurricanes damage and disrupt communities, properties, and economies in various ways, whether direct, indirect, or both. Translating these impacts into credit risk and other financial implications can be complex. However, a range of tools and analyses enables lenders, investors, and developers to pre-emptively anticipate hurricane damage when a storm approaches, as well as to adjust long-term strategy to mitigate risks and seize opportunities over time.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Richard Peiser |Holly Dutton |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme
Covid-19 may have caused a precipitous decline in convention crowds in 2020, but it did not halt long-range plans to overhaul and expand convention centers in a number of key U.S. cities. Today that foresight is bearing fruit with grand new facilities able to host larger industry and trade gatherings than ever before.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Jenny Zhang |Holly Dutton |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme |Hannah Miet
Against the iconic backdrop of Hong Kong’s skyline, a room filled with cross-disciplinary real estate experts engaged in a lively display of unprecedented [JZ1] collaboration. Brightly colored sticky notes plastered across the floor-to-ceiling windows mapped out an intricate web of relationships between developers, tech providers, facility managers, investors, utilities, and more.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Holly Dutton |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme |Hannah Miet
According to the second annual C Change Survey from the Urban Land Institute (ULI), launched at this year’s C Change Summit, 93 percent of respondents report incorporating transition risks into their real estate investment decisions, indicating the industry’s growing awareness and commitment to integrate climate-related financial risks into decision-making processes.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme |Kevin Fagan |Caglar Demir |Holly Dutton
Since about 2018, property insurance costs marched steadily upward, almost universally, in commercial real estate, broadly forcing property owners and lenders to strategically confront the reality of soaring premiums and shrinking availability. But much of the industry has also enjoyed significant rent growth, which seemingly has muted the overall impact to bottom-line revenues and property values. The impact is barbelled, however.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Sibley Fleming |Holly Dutton |Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme |Hannah Miet
Dr. Robert Bullard and the Bullard Center for Environmental Justice Dr. Robert D. Bullard—known as the father of environmental justice and celebrated for his commitment to the idea that all people, regardless of background, have a right to clean air and clean water—has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Institute’s highest honor, the ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.
