Real Estate Industry Leaders to Meet in Vancouver

WASHINGTON — Canada’s top real estate and land use leaders will gather with other global industry icons April 9-11 in downtown Vancouver, B.C., for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2014 Spring Meeting. This year’s meeting, which represents the first time one of ULI’s two major annual all-member meetings is being held outside the U.S., will take place at the city’s Convention Centre.
Highlights from the Canadian track of programming include:

• The Canadian P3 Model: Will It Work in the U.S.? - Canadian real estate developers and investors have a good track record creating successful public private partnerships to design, build, finance, operate and maintain their cities’ development projects. Many Canadian-based companies are now focused on similar opportunities in the U.S. and U.S.-based companies are trying to follow their example. But, they are both discovering that the governmental structure, political environment, and risk-reward expectations in their countries are very different.
• A Model for Building Healthy Places: Vancouver is known for being an active and healthy city, but how has it achieved this reputation?
• Vancouver as an Urban Laboratory: What you see today in Vancouver is the distillation of pioneering planning policies, innovative architecture and highly creative developers all working to build a world class city.
• When Local Becomes Global: The Evolution of Three New International Cities— Vancouver, Miami and Houston have recently joined the ranks of international gateway cities. Each has achieved this status under different circumstances, but there are many common elements that could be applied by other cities that wish to expand their global presence.
• Revolution of Successful Mixed-Use Development: Initially mixed-use was key to the revitalization of Vancouver’s downtown but now it is seen as a major component of successful urbanization throughout the region. What makes for a diverse range of successful mixed-use developments and how has that driven land development success in the Canadian context?
• Vancouver as a Gateway City: Why does Vancouver work so well as a Gateway City?
• Apartments and the International Investor: What’s the Appeal?

For more information, visit www.uli.org.