2023 ULI Hines Competition Brief

View the press release announcing the finalists of this year’s Competition.

Watch the video announcing the finalists for this year’s competition. (Video password: D#e935Sk). View the slide deck from the presentation. View all submissions online. ULI will issue a press release on Thursday, February 23 with more information about the finalists.

Participants: Take the ESRI survey here: https://arcg.is/1WrjKe

Watch the video and view the press release announcing the City of North Charleston and ULI South Carolina as the hosts of the 2023 ULI Hines Student Competition.

2023 Competition

Register October 1 – December 9, 2022
ULI Notifies Teams of their Eligibility Friday, December 23, 2023 (most teams); Friday, January 6 at latest
City & Site Announced January 3, 2023
Challenge Brief Released Jan. 9, 2023
Competition Jan. 9 – 23, 2023
Finalists Announced by February 23, 2023
Finalist Site Visit March 10, 2023
Virtual Finalist Rehearsals March 24, 2023
Finalist Presentations and Winner Announced Thursday, April 6, 2023

Participant Resources

Please review the Intro to Moody’s Analytics training video by typing in (or pasting) the passcode yBPfv8Bc when you click here

Moody’s is offering access to commercial real estate data to all competitors via their REIS Platform. ULI does not require you to use Moody’s data for the competition. Data available for the region may include Market Trends & Forecasts; Macro & Regional Demographic; Asset-Level & Comp Level Performance Benchmarking, New Construction, Stabilization & Absorption Analysis, Transaction Data; Commercial Location Scores, Climate Impact, Property Tenant Data; and Entity Ownership Info.

ArcGIS Workshop January 3 Recording is available here

Esri has prepared for you an Urban Model of the 2023 ULI Hines competition site in ArcGIS Online, to facilitate use of ArcGIS tools and Nearmap 3D mesh for the competition. This model supports early-stage analysis and site design. ULI does not require you to use the ArcGIS or Nearmap tools to participate in the competition.

For students wanting to login and access tools and data, please visit this ArcGIS page. Esri also hosted workshops for the following topics:

Recording of ArcGIS Online Basics 

Recording of ARCGIS Urban

Recording of ARCGIS Business Analyst

Esri also hosted an open office hour to answer ArcGIS questions on January 11, and that recording is available here.

Please review the “How to create your Pro Forma” by typing in (not copy/paste) password BmaL20tj for the training video

Follow up live Q&A sessions for the Pro Forma were held at the following times:

• January 6, using password  “1f9mVs4.” (include the “.”) Recording here
• January 12, Feasible project costs-value–gap slides and Recording here
• January 17, using password “&[email protected]”  – Recording available here 
• January 19, using password “xsV45BzB”  – Recording available here