Building Healthy Places

Meets 2^nd Thursday, 8:30am-10:00am, KEPHART (2555 Walnut Street)
Works to integrate best practices in Building Healthy Places focused on sustainable design, active living and transportation, access to healthy food, safe public spaces, and economic development. Holds monthly meetings focused on these topics areas. Partners with Colorado Health Foundation to organize Building Healthy Places workshops in communities across the state.

Chairs:
Jon Buerge, Urban Villages, [email protected] (Term: Through July 2022)
LaDonna Baertlein, Dig Studio, [email protected] (Term: Through July 2022)

Discovery

Meets 3rd Wednesday, 11:30 -1 pm, BOK Financial (1400 Lawrence St., #1200):
As the Young Leader Group program committee, the Discovery Series has a forward looking perspective focused on emerging trends and neighborhoods.  The Discovery Series provides an inside look from local leaders in the industry at the latest land use currents and innovative developments in Colorado’s real estate community.  Past programs have highlighted the attainable for-sale housing crisis, inner-ring suburb revitalization, the National Western Stock Show project, and emerging millennial trends.

Chairs:
Eric Veith, Gables Residential, [email protected] (Term: Through 2022)
Seth Weiland, Otten Johnson, [email protected]  (Term: Through 2023)

Explorer Series

Meets 4th Tuesday, 8:30am-9:30 am, The Alliance Center (1536 Wynkoop Street)
Offers the straight story on key trends and projects like Convention Center Redevelopment, Design in Denver, disruptive technology, water policy and more. Explorer Series programs and tours are usually led by the developer, architects, and public officials who worked on the project, and provide great opportunities for networking and socializing.

Chairs:
Bill Mahar, Norris Design, [email protected] (Term: Through July 2022)
Michele Raftery, 4240 Architecture, [email protected] (Term: Through 2021)

Housing

Meets 1^st Tuesday, 12pm-1pm, Hord Coplan Macht (1800 Wazee Street, #450)
Mediates among real estate, homebuilder, affordable housing, and housing-the-homeless interests and helps generate interest in Colorado’s housing diversity as an economic development asset. Creates educational programming, white papers, and keeps up to date on affordable housing issues in Colorado.

Chairs:
Gosia Kung, KTGY Architecture and Planning,  [email protected]  (Term: Through 2022)
Wayne McClary, Colorado Division of Housing,[email protected] (Term: Through 2023)

Urban Mobility and Development (UMAD) (formerly TOD)

Meets 1^st Wednesday, 11:30am-1pm, Stantec (1050 17^TH St. #A200)
Focused on important transit and development issues facing Colorado, hosting annual programs focused on issues like center-city transit, regional connections, and the numerous development opportunities around these transit lines. Hosts TOD Marketplace intermittently, bringing together 500 developers and transit advocates.

Chairs:
Jordan Block, Stantec, [email protected] (Term: Through 2020)
Terry Willis, KTGY, [email protected] (Term: Through 2020)

REGIONAL COMMITTEES:

Boulder

Meets 2^nd Wednesday, 8am-9am, W.W. Reynolds (1375 Walnut Street, Suite #10, Boulder):
In 2009 ULI Boulder became a satellite committee of ULI Colorado serving this city of 100,000 and its 100+ ULI members. ULI Boulder’s goal is to work directly with community leaders on difficult issues such as affordable housing, density, and town-gown relations with CU. ULI Boulder hosts successful programs and advisory panels and become a trusted resource among public officials.

Chairs:
Melissa McGinley, Urban Ventures, [email protected] (Term: Through December 2021)
Danica Powell, Trestle Strategy Group, [email protected] (Term: Through 2022)

Northern Colorado

Meets 2^nd Tuesday, 4-5:30pm, The Neenan Company (3325 S Timberline Rd, #100, Fort Collins):
In 2018, Northern Colorado became a satellite committee of ULI Colorado serving northern Colorado and its ULI members. ULI Northern Colorado’s goals are to bring together leaders from diverse real estate perspectives, plan high-quality events, and educate local leaders on relevant issues.

Chairs:
Mark Bishop, NAI Affinity, [email protected] (Term: Through Spring of 2023)
Sam Garry, Neenan Archistruction, [email protected] (Term: Through December 2021)

Southern Colorado

Meets 2^nd Wednesday 10-11am, HB&A (102 E Moreno Ave, Colorado Springs):
In 2016, Colorado Springs became a satellite committee of ULI Colorado. It has since grown to be ULI Southern Colorado with the goal of working directly with local developers and community leaders to highlight the region’s growth from a multiplicity of perspectives.

Chairs:
Nadine Hensler, GE Johnson, [email protected] (Term: Through July 2024)
Jariah Walker, Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority, [email protected] (Term: Through March 2022)

Business Development

Builds networks with community leaders to encourage their participation in ULI as members, sponsors and volunteers. Manages annual sponsorship campaign in conjunction with staff, raises tens of thousands of dollars annually.

Chairs:
Kevin McCabe, Newmark, [email protected] (Term: Through 2023)
Brice O’Donnell, Starboard Realty, [email protected] (Term: Through 2023)

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Action Committee

The DEI Action Committee is composed of volunteers from each of our standing committees and product councils who serve as DEI Champions. The DEI Action Committee meets quarterly to help ULI Colorado implement its DEI Action Plan and update it over time.

Chairs:
Mark Marshall, Rocky Mountain Communities, [email protected]  (Term: Through 2022)
Amirah Shahid, HDR Inc., [email protected]  (Term: Through 2022)

Impact Awards

ULI Colorado’s biannual Awards program has taken place in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. Our next program will be in 2021. The program has built on the international success of the ULI Awards for Excellance and J.C. Nichols Prize, with project and personal awards. View past winners here.

Chairs:
Tom Kooiman, Brinkmann Constructors, [email protected] (Term: Through 2021 Impact Awards)
Becky Stone, OZ Architecture, [email protected] (Term: Through 2021 Impact Awards)

NEXT

Champions the ULI mission by engaging members between the ages of 35 and 45. The program will enhance the value of the ULI membership by offering programs that promote leadership development, career advancement, and the opportunity to expand and enhance a participant’s professional network. Applications open toward end of each year.

Chairs:
Jason Weimer, Huntington Bank, [email protected] (Term: Through December 2024)
Brooke Schubert, Anderson Hallas Architects, [email protected]  (Term: Through 2023)

Technical Assistance Panels (TAPs)

Brings ULI Colorado expertise directly into communities on tough real estate problems. Provides one and a half day (or longer) advisory panels consisting of ULI Colorado members for local communities. Recently ULI has convened TAPs on critical sites in Denver, Boulder, Arvada, Erie, Evergreen, and Castle Pines.

Chairs:
Al Colussy, Alan Colussy Architecture, [email protected]
Andrew Knutsen, Economic & Planning Systems, [email protected]
Anna Jones, CliftonLarsonAllen, [email protected]

Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI)

In 2013, ULI Colorado joined this national ULI program to advance the careers and leadership of women within ULI, the greater community, and their professions. WLI seeks to increase the numbers of women who join ULI, become leaders of ULI committees, and are featured as speakers and panelists. Watch for WILI’s newest mentoring program, “Breaking the Glass Ceiling,” coming soon!

Chairs:
Sarah Nurmela, City & County of Denver, [email protected] (Term: Through January 2023)
Jocelyn Hittle, Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Spur Campus and Special Projects Colorado State University System, [email protected] (Term: Through January 2024)

Young Leaders Group (YLG)

Organizes and leads activities providing education, mentorship, and networking to young professionals under 35 years of age in the real estate industry. The group is 250 members strong and hosts its own full menu of tours, volunteer days and networking. YLGs schedule a networking event each month, two Discovery series educational programs, and the Partnership Forum and Development 360 mentoring programs.

Chairs:
Mariel Beaudoin, East West Partners, [email protected]  (Term: Through 2022)
Danielle Vachon, MGL Partners, [email protected]  (Term: Through 2022)