How Mayors Responded to the Federal Shutdown
At a ULI Fall Meeting program with four U.S. mayors, Julia Stasch, vice president of U.S. programs at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, got right to the point: “We’re not three [...]
Public Private Partnerships Are Evolving, Rose Fellow Mayors Say
In midtown Memphis, high vacancy rates had plagued the vacant Overton Square shopping and theater district for years. Nearby homes were inundated during storms due to inadequate flood control [...]
Portland leaders gaining assistance from Urban Land Institute
The Urban Land Institute has named Portland Mayor Charlie Hales one of four fellows of its Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership. The yearlong fellowship program helps the mayors of four large [...]
Mayor, managing director are in Chicago for conference
Mayor Kirk Caldwell departed for Chicago Monday night to attend the fall meeting of the Urban Land Institute and participate in a panel discussion on public private partnership developments. The [...]
Mayors of Honolulu, Indianapolis, Memphis and Portland Named as Fellows by the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership
WASHINGTON (October 2, 2013) – The mayors of Honolulu, Indianapolis, Memphis, Tenn., and Portland, Ore. have been selected as the 2013-2014 class of fellows for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) [...]
Ideas City: A Tactical Festival of Creativity and Community
In early May, New York City’s New Museum hosted the second Ideas City Festival. Founded in 2011 with the belief that arts and culture are integral to the vitality and impact of urbanization, this [...]
Building Up Community, One School at a Time
The 2013 groundbreaking for Teachers Village in Newark, New Jersey, received much attention as a model for how school-centered development can lead urban renewal. The project consists of three [...]
All Aboard: Rail-Centric Construction Gets Back on Track
In the last decades of the 20th century, many of the projects undertaken during the golden era of railroad station restorations across the country involved anything except trains. Union Station [...]
Women Who Make a Difference: Cathy Sloss Jones
The Birmingham News and AL.com, in conjunction with Red Mountain Theatre Company, introduced the inaugural list of Women Who Make a Difference in the Birmingham area. Today, we look at a real [...]
Former ULI Rose Center Fellow Anthony Foxx, Mayor of Charlotte, N.C., Is Nominated by President Obama to Head U.S. Department of Transportation
WASHINGTON (April 29, 2013) – The Urban Land Institute (ULI) congratulates Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx on his nomination by President Obama to be the Secretary for the U.S. Department of [...]
