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“The Advisory Services program is, in my opinion, the very best outreach program offered by ULI. It truly reflects our core mission of making the built environment better for all”
Jim DeFrancia
Life Trustee, ULI / Principal, Lowe Enterprises
What is ULI’s Advisory Services Program (ASP)?
ULI is inspired and guided every day by its mission: to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. It channels its resources and energies into three pressing challenges: decarbonization and net zero, increasing housing attainability, and educating the next generation of diverse leaders.
Perhaps the most direct manifestation of ULI’s mission-driven focus is its Advisory Services Program (ASP), which for 75 years, has been changing the world, one community at a time.
“My first experience with ULI was when ULI came to New Orleans to help rebuild through a Blue Ribbon Panel after Hurricane Katrina.”
Nolan Marshall
Executive Director, South Park Business Improvement District
ULI’s Advisory Services Program (ASP) pairs the brightest minds in real estate with the toughest problems facing our cities. Convening cross-disciplinary real estate leaders for immersive, on-site panels, ASP panels produce a set of impactful recommendations to address economic development and revitalization, housing attainability, community resilience, and so much more. One of ASP’s unique attributes is that its participants are unbiased: as opposed to paid consultants, these are leaders in their fields who are volunteering their skills, time and energy to create a more authentic blueprint for change. They are not beholden to what local leaders want to hear so much as what local leaders need to hear. For ASP, ULI partners with government entities, commercial real estate leaders and non-profit community organizations. Its panels represent a carefully selected team of interdisciplinary experts that involve the local community at each step and stage of the process.
“There’s tremendous value in pairing design professionals, economic development, and planning professionals from across the country to address specific concerns”
Antoine Bryant
Director of Planning and Development for the City of Detroit
Why ASPS are Important
ASPs fulfill the promise of ULI’s mission. Our cities, big and small, are facing complex challenges – challenges that are affecting the lives of millions. These challenges are so multifaceted that the only way they can be solved is through professional collaboration. Bringing together leading minds from urban development and investment, architecture, planning, finance and beyond, ULI is uniquely positioned to deliver the holistic, creative solutions that cities need today.