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.

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.

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.

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.