Our Impact
Shaping Northwest Arkansas
We love sharing with our community what we have done and the impact we have
had on our community. Please look through some of our key endeavors:
Place Summit
https://placesummit.uli.org/
Registration is OPEN for ALL for Place Summit 2023. Register here!
ULI NWA 2022 Place Summit Highlights
Discover – Immerse – Deliver
The ULI NWA Place Summit is a two-day gathering that brings together land use and built environment professionals who are passionate about creating exceptional places. This summit aims to become a convergence of inspiration, an incubator of new ideas, and a network for those passionate placemaking individuals striving to create quality places that people want to live, work, play and learn in.
Academy for the Built Environment
https://arkansas.uli.org/get-involved/academy-for-the-built-environment/
FoRE – Foundations of Real Estate
FoRE provides an overview of the commercial real estate ecosystem’s concepts, issues, systems, tools, and players and is designed to support emergent-, early-, and mid-stage career seekers.
REDI – Real Estate Diversity Initiative
REDI is a comprehensive real estate development training and mentorship program intended to increase the number of women and people of color in the real estate industry.
UrbanPlan
UrbanPlan is a realistic, engaging exercise in which participants—high school students, university students, or public officials—learn the fundamental forces that affect development in our communities.
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Top Stories
Connecting People and Places
Connections between places, and connections among people: these are the key elements that shape downtowns and neighborhoods. “Linking Land Use and Transportation” was the theme of ULI Northwest Arkansas’s fourth Policy and Practice seminar.
ULI NWA InSight Dinner Series 2022
ULI NWA’s InSight Dinners is an opportunity to bring together local leaders, thinkers and doers from across the community – industry, government, education, community leaders and nonprofits – for transformational conversation, a delicious multi-course meal prepared by local chefs, and to support real change that can spread throughout the NWA region.
Framing the Conversation with Missing Middle Housing
What is “missing middle” housing, and why is it important for communities?
National speaker, architect, urban designer, and author Daniel Parolek joined the Northwest Arkansas Community of Practice on May 13 at an Aligned for Affordability Policy and Practice Seminar to talk about how communities can support more diverse and affordable housing community.
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Market Forecast: Households Growing Faster Than Homes
What should communities do when households are growing faster than available homes?
Should homes located farther from job centers come with stickers that alert homebuyers about the added costs of transportation?
Will we ever find “missing” middle housing?
These pressing questions and more were central to the discussion as part of the “Market Moves – A National and Regional Analysis of the Residential Market,” a webinar hosted by ULI Northwest Arkansas on March 16, 2022.
ULI Northwest Arkansas is a dedicated resource for our members and community.
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