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For NLC’s Equitable Economic Development (EED) Fellowship Program, June 5-8 were very special dates. After a year providing extensive technical assistance to the inaugural cohort cities of [...]

The 2017 ULI Fall Meeting was an outstanding event and I found it to be very rewarding and informative as a public official. I currently serve as the Director of the City of Memphis Division of [...]

I have worked for the City of Houston for the past 10 years and I have been invited to numerous ULI luncheons which my colleagues and I respectfully decline to go to. The usual response for [...]

The ULI Fall Meeting this past October was an incredible experience. The energy I felt throughout the conference was impressive – having opportunities to learn from, and visit with, small and [...]

“We know what works, we just need to scale up.” What I took away from my attendance of the 2017 Fall Urban Land Institute (ULI) Conference can be summed up with this statement, made by a panelist [...]

Over the course of my career, I have consistently turned to ULI Toronto as a resource for professional development and knowledge sharing. Through the ULI Fall Meeting in Los Angeles, I was amazed [...]

I came to ULI early in my career to network, to learn from my colleagues and to spread my love of planning, place-making and the built environment. As a recipient of the 2017 Rose Center [...]

To those at the Rose Center and Urban Land Institute I would like to express my gratitude for awarding me a scholarship allowing me to travel on behalf of Rio Rancho, New Mexico to the 2017 ULI [...]

A week after the Fall Meeting I found myself circling the skies above the City of Quartz again. As I replayed the meeting week, I'm reminded of a couple key takeaways: 1. Public-private [...]

I was fortunate enough to attend ULI’s Fall Meeting in Los Angeles this year. Being a relative newbie to ULI and a public sector city planner, I was really curious to understand and react to [...]