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ULI has announced the winners of the 2019 ULI Global Awards for Excellence, including two projects from New York. Congratulations to Empire Stores, 2018 winner of ULI New York Awards for Excellence in Repositioning or Redevelopment & Cornell Tech Campus, 2019 finalist of ULI New York Awards for Excellence in Institutional Development!
Article published in Urban Land, By Justin Arnold, September 5, 2019
Eleven real estate projects from around the globe have been selected as winners of the 2019 ULI Global Awards for Excellence, widely recognized as one of the development industry’s most prestigious awards programs. The winners, each of which demonstrates a comprehensive level of quality and a forward-looking approach to development and design, include seven projects in the United States, three in Asia, and one in Europe.
The winners are:
The winners were selected by an international jury made up of leading ULI members representing multidisciplinary real estate expertise, including finance, planning, development, design, and other professional services.
“Given the diversity and quality of the finalist entries this year, the jury was faced with a significant challenge to narrow the field to the ultimate winners,” said jury chair Jacinta McCann, global design adviser at AECOM. “In the end, the qualities that determined the winners included not only comprehensive design excellence, but also financing, programmatic innovation, sustainability, social equity, access and mobility enhancements, and local and regional economic stimulus. We were also pleased to see that a number of winning entries took advantage of optimizing transit-related infrastructure.”
“Our Global Awards for Excellence program is widely considered the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of real estate development,” said W. Edward Walter, ULI global chief executive officer. “Each of these winners demonstrates the key contribution that thoughtful, innovative development makes in the creation of a great urban experience.”
The Awards for Excellence program, established in 1979 and subsequently expanded to a global program, recognizes the full development process of a project beyond the core components of architecture and design. Projects must be financially viable, substantially complete, and in stabilized operation to be eligible for the awards. The criteria for the awards include leadership, market acceptance, relevance and positive contribution to the community, environmental stewardship and resilience, replicability, and financial success. The program has recognized many types of projects throughout its history, including office, residential, recreational, mixed use, industrial/office park, retail, new community, rehabilitation, and public realm.
In addition to McCann, the 2019 ULI Global Awards for Excellence jury members were Stuart Ackerberg, chief executive officer, Ackerberg, Minneapolis; Amy Coburn, university architect/director of Planning Design and Construction, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Antonio Fiol-Silva, founding principal, SITIO architecture + urbanism, Philadelphia; Michael Grove, principal and chair of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and ecology, Sasaki Associates, Watertown, Massachusetts; Blake Olafson, managing partner, Asia Capital Real Estate Pte Ltd, Singapore; Gayle Starr, managing director, Prologis, San Francisco; and Becky Zimmermann, president, Design Workshop, Denver.
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