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A national group will be in Omaha this week to study the north downtown neighborhood. Leaders from the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership, along with Mayor Jean Stothert and other city [...]

Last year Honolulu city officials began a study to renovate the Neal Blaisdell Center complex. After researching possibilities, the idea for a redevelopment is taking hold.

The city announced Tuesday that it is holding a public workshop on Feb. 10, on the future of the Blaisdell Center complex. In March of last year, Mayor Kirk Caldwell hosted a panel of experts [...]

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and the mayors of Boston, Omaha and Seattle have been selected as the 2015 fellows of the Rose Center for Public Leadership. The mayors will lead teams of other Rose [...]

Leah Treat, director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation, traveled to Honolulu this month as part of the Urban Land Institute's Rose Fellowship program.

With direction from the Urban Land Institute, Memphis is endeavoring to create an innovation district amidst the city’s medical campuses. As envisioned, the result of the redevelopment will be an [...]

An iconic new building. Better pedestrian access. A private or nonprofit operator. Those were among many ideas that a panel of experts shared Friday about how city officials can "re-imagine" 22 [...]

“How do we take what the Blaisdell set in the ground in 1964, 50 years ago, and take it for the next 50 or 100 years?" Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell asked that question to the Urban Land Institute [...]

A quick glance at an aerial photo of the neighborhood makes it obvious that the revitalized “cultural corridor" that Mayor Kirk Caldwell envisions for urban Honolulu is no pie-in-the-sky idea. [...]

Portland Development Commission Executive Director Patrick Quinton represented Portland in Indianapolis last week. PBOT Director Leah Treat also traveled for the ULI fellowship.