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ULI Launches Navigator, an Online Portal to Help Members Get More Involved
ULI has launched Navigator, an online portal to help members get more involved …
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Ron Nahas’ Gift to UrbanPlan Encourages Others to Match
ULI Foundation governor Ron Nahas has pledged a $300,000 matching gift to UrbanPlan and is encouraging others to match. …
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ULI Columbus Receives Major Gift from Lizanne Galbreath
ULI Foundation governor Lizanne Galbreath has pledged a $285,000 gift to ULI Columbus to strengthen the district council’s long-term growth and positive impact on the central Ohio region….
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ULI Foundation Annual Fund Supports New Report on Climate Resilience for Florida’s Gulf Coast
ULI Tampa Bay has released a groundbreaking report on climate resilience strategies for Florida’s Tampa Bay region called Realizing Resistance. …
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Daniel James Brown Shares the Backstory of The Boys in the Boat
A chance encounter at a homeowners’ association meeting led author Daniel James Brown to the woman who inspired The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics….
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The ULI Foundation has again earned the highest rating from Charity Navigator, a leading independent advisory firm for donors that investigates:

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As Austin Grows, Preserving a Live (and Lively) Music Scene

Amid rising venue rents, housing affordability woes, and ever-present construction cranes in Austin, local music venues—and, therefore, local musicians—fear extinction….
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From left to right: Rients Dijkstra, professor of urban design, Delft University; Phillip Bouteiller, CEO of TXL Berlin; and Katrina Sichel speaking at the 2017 ULI Netherlands Conference.

Creating Offices and Housing from Berlin’s Aging Airport

For more than 20 million passengers annually, Tegel Airport is the gateway to Berlin. As a new international airport is being built, an ambitious project is intended to transform Tegel into an “urban tech republic.”…
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ULX: 10 Museum Designs Reach Out to Their Surrounding Communities

The following ten projects—all completed during the past five years—include adaptive uses of historic buildings, expansions, and additions aimed at making old museum buildings more welcoming to the public….
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©Robert Benson. Fiber-cement panels placed between sets of windows increase the horizontality of the buildings and articulate facades. Planters and stone walls above parking in the eastern courtyard create a niche for a gas barbecue and a dining table.

Putting Urban Housing into a Transforming Industrial Area

International developer Hines turns an old factory site into transit-oriented urban housing near the terminus of Boston’s Red Line….
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A cistern to the right of the grocery store's entrance can hold 11,700 gallons (44,000 liters) of water for use inside the store-and alerts customers to the project's commitment to sustainability. (Regency Centers)

How Stormwater Retention Paid Dividends for Three Sites

From a park in Washington, D.C., to a former department store warehouse in Portland, Oregon, to a Whole Foods site in suburban Raleigh, North Carolina, these diverse projects are linked by a common ingenuity in handling stormwater….
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