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Parks Technical Assistance

Advisory Services Panels (ASPs) are five-day-long convenings of national panelists to tackle local challenges. ASPs bring together the best and brightest from ULI’s diverse membership — developers, planners, financiers, market analysts, economists, architects, designers, and public officials — to provide practical solutions and objective advice not available from any other source.

Technical Assistance Panels (TAPs) are typically one-and-a-half-day sessions in which multidisciplinary teams of five to eight real estate development professionals tour the site under review, interview local stakeholders, and meet to develop recommendations that are presented publicly at the end of the session and in a follow-up report.

Virtual and/or hybrid ASP and TAP opportunities may be available depending on locally defined needs and public health considerations.

In conjunction with 10-Minute Walk, which promotes the bold idea that everyone in urban America should live within a ten-minute walk of a high-quality park, ULI previously offered National Study Visits to support cities with their 10-minute park access goals. Through these intensive technical assistance opportunities, communities worked together with ULI District Councils and national experts, to better understand park challenges and identify strategies to overcome park access barriers and park quality deficiencies.

Advisory Services Panels on Parks

Report Date Presentation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 2021 Presentation
Charlotte, North Carolina October 2021 Presentation
Norfolk, Virginia July 2021 Presentation
Ada County, Idaho June 2021 Presentation
Kansas City, Missouri December 2019
Fort Lauderdale October 2019
Austin, Texas August 2019 Presentation
The Hemisfair in San Antonio, Texas April 2019 Presentation
Detroit, Michigan April 2019 Presentation
The Stitch in Atlanta, Georgia February 2019 Presentation
Sacramento, California September 2018 Presentation
St. Paul, Minnesota (Rondo neighborhood) March 2018 Presentation

Media

“Creating Funding Mechanisms for a Revived Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.”  Urban Land, June 23, 2022.

“ULI Advisory Services Panel Charts Path for More Equitable Kansas City Parks System.” Urban Land, December 11, 2019.

“Finding a Funding Solution to Maintain Detroit’s Parks,” Urban Land, May 2, 2019.

“To Woo Millennials, Atlanta Considers Covering Highways With Parks,” The Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2019.

“The Urban Land Institute To Advise Central Atlanta Progress On Planning And Development Of The ‘Stitch,’ A Proposal For Vibrant Park Space Along I-75 And I-85 Connector,” Saporta Report, February 18, 2019.

“Planning for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in Sacramento,” Urban Land, November 12, 2018.

“How to connect and heal St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood,” Star Tribune, February 16, 2021.

“Deck parks’ restore community ties in neighborhoods divided by highways,” The Christian Science Monitor, July 30, 2018.

“Reconnecting a Bisected Neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Urban Land, March 29, 2018.

“Fired up about Rondo’: Land-bridge concept for St. Paul neighborhood gets a boost,” Minnesota Post, March 28, 2018.

“Support builds for bridge over I-94 in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood,” Star Tribune, March 24, 2018.

National Study Visits on Parks

Report Date Presentation
Grand Rapids, Michigan March 2019 Presentation
Lewisville, Texas (The Triangle) March 2019 Presentation
Camden, New Jersey (Cramer Hill) October 2019 Presentation
Los Angeles, California (Boyle Heights) November 2019 Presentation
Memphis, Tennessee (South Memphis) January 2020 Presentation
Lynnwood, Washington (City Center) February 2020 Presentation

The TAPs highlighted below outline opportunities for integrating park and open space investments into local plans and projects and include recommendations for financing, design, phasing, and community engagement.

Technical Assistance Panels

Report Location Date
Downtown Harrisonburg Evaluation of City Owned Parcels ULI Virginia September 2018
Building Bridges: An Exploration of A United Cross-Border Experience ULI San Diego-Tijuana June 2018
Leichtag Commons ULI San Diego-Tijuana April 2018
A Vision for a Greener, Healthier, Cooler Gowanus: Strategies to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effect ULI New York January 2018
Western Nassau County ULI North Florida November 2017
Realizing a New Vision for Chinatown Park ULI Washington September 2017
New Report Provides Recommendations for Revitalizing Chinatown Park—Changes Would Enhance Public Realm of City ULI Washington Posted April 2018
Revitalizing the City of Hopewell Waterfront ULI Virginia September 2017
Florida Avenue Market Area ULI Washington September 2016
District Energy, Cultural Sustainability, and Open Space: ULI Washington Completes Panel in Florida Avenue Market ULI Washington Posted May 2017
North Loop Highway: Kansas City Missouri ULI Kansas City January 2016
Leimert Park Village ULI Los Angeles December 2015
Town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Framework for Responsible Growth ULI South Carolina August 2015
Covington Cincy TAP Report ULI Cincinnati October 2014
Unincorporated Central Broward County Commercial Corridor Study ULI Southeast Florida October 2014
Enhancing Open Space in Downtown New Orleans: Visions for a Greener District ULI Louisiana March 2014
North 32nd Street Corridor ULI Arizona February 2013
East Palo Alto ULI San Francisco June 2012

Finally, the additional ASPs highlighted below outline opportunities for integrating park and open space investments into local plans and projects and include recommendations for financing, design, phasing, and community engagement.

Additional Advisory Services Panels

Report Date
Commerce City Colorado: Implementing Wellness in the Built Environment February 2018
Central Terminal Buffalo, New York: Getting Adaptive Use Right June 2017
Arch Creek Basin, Miami-Dade County, Florida: Addressing Climate Vulnerabilities and Social Equity with an Adaptation Action Area Framework May 2016
Seattle, Washington: Strategic Advice for Urban Resilience on the Lower Duwamish River June 2015
Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa: Activating the Missouri Riverfront November 2014
Westwood Neighborhood: Denver, Colorado, May 2013

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