• As part of the region's work with the Brookings Institution, we are looking for your comments on the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Regional Baseline Overview. This document provides a starting point for analyzing the conditions, barriers, and opportunities that have and can shape our region's economic potential. Click here to read the document. Send all comments to Metropolitan Business Plan Initiative Project Manager, Jon Commers at regionalbusinessplan@donjek.com.
  
  
• ULI's latest report, Land Use and Driving: The Role Compact Development Can Play in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions summarizes the research and findings of three in-depth studies on land use – Moving Cooler, Growing Cooler, and Driving and the Built Environment, concluding that compact development is a key component in efforts to mitigate climate change. Read the full report here.
  
  
• Addressing a packed room at the second annual ULI Minnesota Housing Initiative Conference on June 17, national speakers John McIlwain, ULI Senior Resident Fellow and Terwilliger Chair for Housing and Doug Duncan, Vice President and Chief Economist at Fannie Mae shared their vision of new economy and its impact on housing. Read MinnPost coverage of the event.
  

As the global economic crisis contnues to work its way through our local community, we find ourselves in the middle of the most challenging environment that many of us have seen in our lifetimes.  There are plenty of personal stories of the painful toll it has taken on us and our neighbors--and our neighborhoods.  However, I am confident that we will use this experience to help us come to a new and better place and to take ULI to a new level.

ULI Minnesota is uniquely poised to help with this transition to a new and better place; in fact, new and better places are what ULI is all about! ULI Minnesota actively engages community leaders from both the public and private sector to create meaningful change and support the ongoing growth of our metropolitan region. We envision a region that is more connected, more sustainable and more competitive.  Read more...