Cultivating Development ─ Trends and Opportunities at the Intersection of Food and Real Estate

Cultivating Development: Trends and Opportunities at the Intersection of Food and Real Estate highlights opportunities and partnerships essential to the success of real estate projects that include food as a development focus. Throughout the United States, developers are exploring the mutually beneficial relationship between food-based amenities – such as working farms, community gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores – and real estate. By moving beyond the standard development models and working with food-based businesses and partners outside the “usual suspects,” developers, owners, property managers, designers, investors, and others involved in real estate decision making are producing projects that benefit people and the planet while also maximizing profits.

Kathleen Carey, President and Chief Executive Officer, ULI Foundation, oversees all fundraising activities for ULI and the ULI Foundation, the Foundation’s Annual Fund, the Foundation Governors program, ULI’s work with philanthropic grantors and partners, its sponsorship efforts in support of ULI’s global meetings, and the Institute’s corporate partners program. Rachel MacCleery is Senior Vice President at the Urban Land Institute, where she leads the organization's Building Healthy Places Initiative, as well as its Infrastructure Initiative.?Sarene Marshall is Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute’s Center for Sustainability.?Matthew Norris, Senior Associate, Content at the Urban Land Institute, supports the Institute’s Building Healthy Places Initiative and works on projects linking health, sustainability and development.