Tag Archives: Urban Land Institute

Developers join city in considering climate resiliency as Austin grows

While the city considers its options for dealing with extreme weather and increasing resiliency across the area, the same questions about the role of climate change in large-scale building projects are top of mind for developers and financial leaders active…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 22, 2024

Panelists offer cautious optimism on HOME and other city land use changes

Local real estate and development professionals weighed in Wednesday on the potential impact of the city’s many recent changes in land use policy, which were intended to add housing stock and address the affordability problem that has affected the area…

Housing • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 27, 2024

Workforce leaders talk how to grow skilled trades pipeline to 10,000+ workers annually

In February 2021, when a deep winter freeze caused burst pipes in homes and businesses all over Austin, a city staffer looking for available plumbers called Tamara Atkinson, CEO of Workforce Solutions Capital Area and one of the local experts…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 25, 2024

Panelists: Transmission lines, local generation needed to meet Austin's energy demands

Keeping up with aggressive business and residential growth throughout the Austin area is a persistent challenge for those involved in supplying energy reliably to the city while also trying to move away from fossil fuel sources for generation needs. Speakers…

Energy • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 5, 2024

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Summit panel looks at possibilities and challenges of I-35 cap-and-stitch program

While intense construction on the lowering and widening of Interstate 35 isn’t scheduled to begin until mid- or late 2026, local business and political leaders want the public to know that decisions and talks taking place now will have a…

Roads • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 4, 2024

Report offers city, developers strategies to reduce parking downtown

A new report from public policy and real estate leaders in Austin recommends a variety of approaches the city can take to reduce the presence and impact of multilevel parking decks in new developments in the downtown core and beyond.…

Planning • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 28, 2024

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Social services, housing policies seen as national challenges in addressing homelessness

Leaders in the movement to provide housing for homeless people agree there are more resources from the private, philanthropic and public spheres to fund projects, but the challenges of managing many demands and community priorities continue to slow their progress.…

Housing • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 26, 2024

Lacking a sense of cultural belonging, many Black Austinites are relocating

Lack of community bonds, cultural offerings and business opportunities play a large part in the continuing decline in Austin’s Black population, based on analysis and anecdotes shared by a number of local leaders at a recent discussion on the demographic…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 15, 2024

Panelists discuss size, shape of downtown caps proposed for I-35 expansion

Planners expect the series of multi-acre caps that will eventually cover portions of a reconstructed Interstate 35 to feature compact two- and three-story buildings that could support retail, arts spaces or limited amounts of housing to serve the downtown area.…

Planning • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 26, 2024

Life sciences talk brings major development news at Urban Land Institute panel

The life sciences industry in Austin is so active and bustling with deals and investments that, over the course of an hour’s discussion last week, leaders in the field dropped a pair of hints about forthcoming significant developments for the…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 19, 2023

As Austin grows, real estate leaders look at state of city's character, reputation

There were no explicit Old Austin versus New Austin clashes during a recent discussion among local development leaders about the state of the city’s character, but issues such as diversity and equity, opportunities for area youth and struggles to manage…

Development • By Chad Swiatecki • Nov 17, 2023

Public, private measures seen as key to increasing resilience against extreme weather, natural disasters

Local developers and planning leaders learned recently about the impacts that increasingly severe weather and natural disasters will have on their projects, and how public and private efforts can work together to reduce the damage. Among the areas of focus…

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