In the Land of Broken Deals: Four Key Commercial Real Estate Lending Trends for 2023
The year 2022 started out peacefully enough. The 10-year U.S. Treasury bond yield was a borrower-friendly 1.6 percent, and most Americans, if asked, could not locate Ukraine on a map. Further, in the minds of many investors, high inflation was generally thought to be transitory.
ULI Global Sustainability Outlook 2023
Report Summary: The Sustainability Outlook annual publication, first launched in 2021, is an opportunity for ULI to share insights from member experts on the key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues that will impact strategic real estate and land use decision-making...
Funding for environmental justice is coming. Will it reach communities most in need?
Michael Regan hardly could have sounded more ardent Tuesday afternoon as he announced that the first $100 million in environmental justice grants made possible by last year’s Inflation Reduction Act will soon become available.
EPA’s Evaluation of Potential Costs of Designating PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances
On September 6, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to designate perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances under CERCLA.
NYC Task Force Issues Recommendations for Residential Conversion of Unused Office Space
This week, New York City’s Office Adaptive Reuse Task Force released a study calling on the city and New York State to loosen regulations preventing the conversion of older office stock into much-needed housing.
Extreme weather, fueled by climate change, cost the U.S. $165 billion in 2022
A town-flattening hurricane in Florida. Catastrophic flooding in eastern Kentucky. Crippling heatwaves in the Northeast and West. A historic megadrought.
Michigan hopes to clean up all 450 of its abandoned oil and gas wells in the next 2 years
The U.S. Department of the Interior is establishing an office to tackle cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells — so-called "orphan wells."
Building a greener future begins with buildings
Turning sustainability ambition into action begins with buildings. The built environment is the single largest emitter of carbon, ahead of even transportation and agriculture.
EPA Releases New PFAS Analytic Tools
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a new interactive webpage, called the “PFAS Analytic Tools,” which provides information about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) across the country.
Analysis: More office tenants ditching aging buildings for new digs
A tale of two office markets is unfolding in Manhattan as a growing number of tenants ditch older spaces for newer or recently renovated buildings.
