For decades, ULI has recognized outstanding real estate development projects, related programs, and visionaries in urban development through its global “Awards of Excellence” program.

This year, ULI Baltimore is honoring its WaveMaker awards to six prestigious projects in the Baltimore metropolitan region. Awardees must have emulated the following criteria to have been considered:

• COMPLETENESS
• A SENSE OF PLACE AND QUALITY
• SUSTAINABILITY
• VISIONARY AND EMULATION, and
• A NEED

Please join us as we honor our award recipients to be announced at the ULI WaveMaker Awards Event on September 30th 2010 at the new Morgan Stanley building @ Harbor Point. Together, we will celebrate and pay special tribute to those individuals who have made projects in our district council a reality as well as celebrating the first ever ULI Baltimore’s Lifetime Achievement award winner and the Rising star winner.

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About ULI’s Heritage Award and Baltimore's 2009 Award Recipients
Awards of Excellence: The Americas (2009)

One of the Urban Land Institute’s guiding principles is that the achievement of excellence in land use practice should be recognized and rewarded. ULI has been recognizing development projects in both the public and private sectors since 1979. With each award, the public becomes more keenly aware of the benefits of superior planning, design, and development, a goal of both the Institute and the development industry.

ULI’s Awards for Excellence recognize the full development process of a project, not just its architecture or design. The criteria for the awards include leadership, contribution to the community, innovations, public/private partnership, environmental protection and enhancement, response to societal needs, and financial viability.

In 2009 ten outstanding developments from the Americas were selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute's Awards for Excellence: The Americas competition. The winners of the awards were announced at ULI's Spring Council Forum in Atlanta. The 2009 winners were selected from more than 140 entries.

The jury was challenged by the large number of applications and the high quality of the projects, which struck the judges as particularly significant in the current economic environment. The award winners illustrate that well‐designed, well‐built projects can thrive even in dark economic times. "These are great examples of success that showcase creativity, innovation, and long‐term thinking," Jury Chairman Utter said. "Perhaps now more than ever, the ULI Awards for Excellence program reminds us of the key difference that responsible land use development can make, in terms of longevity and overall community sustainability.
 
In addition, one submission was honored with the most prestigious ULI award—The Heritage Award. The Heritage Award is given to development projects and programs in the Americas that have established new concepts or standards that have been emulated elsewhere; are of national or international renown; have been completed for a minimum of 25 years; and meet all other criteria for Award winners.

The Heritage Award is given only with a unanimous vote of the Americas jury. The eight former winners include: Rockefeller Center, New York, New York; The Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri; Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Disneyland Park, Anaheim, California; Arizona Baltimore Hotel and Resort, Phoenix, Arizona; The Burnham Plan, Chicago, Illinois; The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York; King's Lynne, Lynn, Massachusetts The Heritage Award, is not an annual award, but rather is bestowed periodically to developments that have demonstrated industry excellence and made substantial contributions to the greater community's well‐being for at least 25 years.


Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland (Charles Center ‐ Inner Harbor Management, Inc.) received the coveted ULI Heritage Award. Through the redevelopment of 192 acres of dilapidated and abandoned waterfront property, the Baltimore Inner Harbor catalyzed reinvestment in Baltimore ‐ supporting more than 50,000 new jobs, generating $60 million in new tax revenue, and generating a $4 billion tourism industry that was previously non‐existent. The Inner Harbor now stands as the model for post‐industrial waterfront redevelopment around the world.

For decades, ULI has recognized outstanding real estate development projects, related programs, and visionaries in urban development thru their Awards of Excellence program.