Author Archives: Urban Land Institute

RangeWater Co-Founder Marc Pollack Begins Two-Year Term Leading the District Council  Urban Land Institute (ULI) leader Marc Pollack, co-founder of RangeWater Real Estate – formerly, Pollack Shores Real Estate Group, has been selected as the new Chair-elect of ULI Atlanta, a vital role for delivering the Institute’s mission in the Atlanta metropolitan region, where it […]

By Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Director, ULI Atlanta No one will ever say that 2020 “zoomed by,” but as we look back at our year together, it turns out it did. In 2020, ULI Atlanta members and staff spent 1.9 million minutes – nearly 32,000 hours – across 11,000+ individual logins on Zoom meetings and social activities. […]

By: Colleen McNally, The Wilbert Group We spoke with Sharon about navigating the legal side of complex land deals, her new role as Chair of the Livable Communities Council and the unique ways she serves as a steward of her own neighborhood. They say home is where the heart is. Growing up in a little […]

By Alex Heaton, ULI Atlanta Member and Project Manager on the Technical Assistance Panel Project The Fulton County Executive Airport (Airport) occupies 985 acres on the industrial corridor located along Fulton Industrial Boulevard (FIB corridor) and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Bookended by recent and significant investments by companies such as Amazon and UPS, the […]

By: Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Director, ULI Atlanta If knowledge is power, or so the saying goes – then HouseATL’s charge to ‘demystify affordable housing’ has never been more important. In the midst of a global pandemic, there should be no doubt left that safe, stable, and affordable housing is bedrock to our communities. The power of […]

We spoke with Dixon about his Atlanta roots, his pivot from tech startups to real estate, his mission to uplift some of Atlanta’s historically disinvested communities, and how he approaches life one day at a time. From a young age, Joel Dixon learned the grass is greener where people water it. The Atlanta native was […]

By ULI’s Atlanta Community Schoolyards Project Team When Atlanta Community Schoolyards launched its pilot project with ULI Atlanta, the Trust for Public Land, Park Pride, and Atlanta Public Schools in early 2019, the idea of a global pandemic halting daily activity and life was not in our national vernacular. Since the shutdown of March 2020, […]

By Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Director, ULI Atlanta Housing affordability has been and continues to be one of the most pressing and vexing challenges facing American cities. ULI’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2021 names it one of the top ten trends in real estate and goes as far as to say “[The] affordable housing crisis likely […]

We spoke with Bronfman about his Midwestern roots, how community development must stay creative amid the pandemic and how Jamestown embraces the unexpected. By Colleen McNally, The Wilbert Group “People are usually surprised when I say I’m from Kansas City,” says Matt Bronfman, principal and CEO of Jamestown, a real estate investment and management company […]

By Urban Land Institute We spoke with Ashley about her switch from aspiring restaurateur to real estate sales, what’s cooking at Invest Atlanta and her plans for leading ULI Atlanta’s Center for Leadership 2021 Class amid the pandemic. At age 25, Ashley Jones was working at The Coca-Cola Company as a territory sales manager when […]

Featured Image: Photographed from left to right, Marc Brambrut and Sheba Ross By Sheba Ross, Urban Land Institute member and mTAP Chair (2019-2020); and Urban Designer, HKS “Pencil in your plans. Write your vision in ink.” This profound thought from Andy Stanley’s book Next Generation Leader has become evident in multiple facets this year. In […]

By ULI ULI’s Terwilliger Center for Housing has announced finalists for this year’s Jack Kemp Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing. Metro Atlanta based HearthSide Club Lafayette, a mixed-income senior housing project was the only housing project recognized in the Southeast and one of 12 in the country recognized as a finalist. ULI’s Jack Kemp […]