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Anchor Institutions as Catalysts of Urban Investment

Hospitals and universities continue to play a significant role in spurring public and private investment, even in today’s economy. The ULI Policy and Practice Forum, Anchor Institutions as Catalysts of Urban Investment, explored how to benefit from this growth in your community.

Anchor Institutes
We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time… We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.

– President Barack Obama
Land Use Impacts of Rising Demand for Medical Facilities
hospitalThe rising demand for medical services to treat aging baby boomers, combined with shifts in approaches to treatments to curb rising costs, will significantly increase the need for new and refurbished medical office buildings in the decades ahead, according to a new report, The Outlook for Health Care, published by ULI and Seavest Inc.

» Read our announcement of the report.
» Read a related Urban Land article, Repurposing Vacant Anchor Institutions.

Economic Reinvention “A Must, Not an Option”
Positioning a city as progressive and innovative in the post-recession economy is requiring public officials to “think and act like entrepreneurs” to maximize the economic development potential of anchor institutions such as higher education and medical facilities, alternative energy-related industries, and biotechnology firms, according to Building on Innovation: The Significance of Anchor Institutions in a New Era of City Building. The new ULI report, authored by ULI Senior Resident Fellow for Urban Development Tom Murphy, maintains that in the current environment of extremely limited public funds, being competitive means being able to create new economic engines, new marketplace synergies, and new corporate enterprise offshoots.

» Read our announcement of the report.

Participating Organizations
  • Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Arent Fox
  • Boston Properties
  • City of Philadelphia
  • District of Columbia
  • Forest City
  • Gallaudet University
  • George Washington University
  • Howard University
  • Johnson Controls
  • Living Cities
  • Malmuth Development
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • NBBJ
  • Ohio State University
  • Partners Healthcare
  • Perkins Eastman
  • RCLCO
  • Sandia Foundation
  • Seavest
  • Skanska
  • State of Utah
  • State University of New York
  • U3 Ventures
  • Washington University