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| WASHINGTON (October 2018)
The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) strategic communications team is ready to assist you with interview and research requests. For your benefit, we offer these events, tips, and ideas related to land use and urban development issues: |
| Now Available:
Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2019 – Now in its 40th year, this annual ULI report provides an outlook on real estate investment and development trends, with Dallas/Fort Worth as this year’s #1 market to watch. Read the report here, and watch ULI’s experts discuss the findings in this video from a press briefing at ULI’s recent Fall Meeting in Boston. |
| Urban Planner and Artist Theaster Gates is 2018 ULI Nichols Laureate: Gates is the 19th recipient of the ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, which recognizes a person, or a person representing an institution, whose work demonstrates a commitment to the creation of thriving, sustainable communities.
For further details, read the press release here. |
| Greenprint Performance Report: Volume 9 – A new report from the ULI’s Greenprint Center for Building Performance shows that the commercial real estate industry is making significant progress in reducing energy consumption, carbon emissions, water usage and waste disposal.
Read the report here. |
| Best Practices in Affordable Housing Showcased through Kemp, Larson Housing Award Winners:
ULI’s annual Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award recognizes best practices in the development of housing that is affordable to people with a broad range of incomes. Avenue Place/Avenue Terrace in Houston, Clybourn 1200 in Chicago, Keauhou Lane in Honolulu, Conway Center in Washington, D.C., and Harbor Place Residences in Haverhill, Massachusetts have been selected by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing as the winners of the 2018 Kemp Award. For further details, read the press release here. The State of New York Mortgage Finance Agency and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority have been selected by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing as the joint winners of the 2018 Robert C. Larson Housing Policy Leadership Award, which is an annual recognition of the innovative ways the public sector is addressing the country’s affordable housing crisis. For further details, read the press release here. |
| Parks in Houston, Texas and Madrid, Spain Selected as Winners of ULI’s 2018 Urban Open Space Award. Two urban parks — Levy Park in Houston, Texas, and Madrid Río Park in Madrid, Spain — have been selected as winners of ULI’s Urban Open Space Award. The award recognizes outstanding examples of successful large- and small-scale public spaces that have socially enriched and revitalized the economy of their surrounding communities.
For further details, read the press release here. |
| New ULI Report on the Case for Open Spaces. The Case for Open Space, a new report from ULI’s Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance, makes the business case for real estate investments in parks and open spaces. Created with guidance from ULI’s Sustainable Development Council in collaboration with ULI’s Building Healthy Places Initiative, The Case for Open Space highlights the benefits for developers to incorporate parks and open spaces in their developments.
For further details, read the press release here. |
| COMING SOON
ULI Webinar: The Value of Improving Building Performance – November 8, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET. Each year, real estate owners and developers strive to find new ways to reduce energy, water, and waste across their portfolios to achieve ambitious environmental and financial goals. How do they do it? What trends are driving these savings forward? How much is it increasing their NOI? In this webinar, senior leaders from the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance will answer these questions. This webinar is a deeper dive into findings made in the brand new ULI Greenprint Performance Report: Volume 9. Learn more here. Registration for the media is free for this webinar – please email Justin Arnold. |
| UPCOMING EVENT:
Urban Land Institute’s 2018 Spring Meeting, is set for April 16-18, 2019 at the Music City Center in Nashville, TN. This premier event is exclusively for some of the most experienced and influential executives in the industry. ULI has created a comprehensive app to assist you in getting the most out of your experience at the 2019 Spring Meeting this April. After you register for the event, don’t forget to download the ULI Events app for a variety of benefits and key features that include a detailed calendar of events, social media access, and inside information. Registration is complimentary for the media. Click here to register. |
| Remember, ULI gives you all sides of the story. Talk with us to get a fresh perspective and a new angle. You and your readers, listeners and viewers will be better informed with input from ULI. Count on it! To schedule an interview or talk to one of our experts, please contact:
Trisha Riggs, Vice President, ULI Communications, 202-624-7086 |