That’s a wrap! Today concluded our UrbanPlan unit with Professor Daniel Wright and his students at UNC Charlotte. UrbanPlan is a challenging team building exercise that aims to develop land use professionals and moves students from a theoretical understanding to understanding the practical realities and demands of the process. It is a 12-15 hour unit where students address challenging financial, market, social, political, and design issues, develop a pro forma, and create a three-dimensional model of their plan.

The students started the module in early April and are each assigned a “Role” – Financial Analyst, Marketing Director, Site Planner, City Liaison and Neighborhood Liaison. They engaged in multiple group sessions as well as two interactive facilitation sessions with ULI Charlotte members. During the facilitations, the member volunteers challenged the students to think more critically about the UrbanPlan issues and the specific responsibilities of their assigned roles. Today, the teams presented their proposal to a “City Council” of ULI members that awards the development contract to the winning team.

Congratulations to our winning team, Skyline, for being awarded the development contract by City Council and to all of the students for their amazing work over the past few weeks!

Thank you to Professor Daniel Wright and to all of the member volunteers (see list below) who participated!

Jeff Cernuto, Princeton Management, LLC
Ambrose Dittloff, Carocon Corporation
Alexis Kaiser, JLL
Rachel Krenz, Ram Realty Advisors
Tim McCollum, Revolve Residential
Grant Meacci, City of Charlotte
Ty Niess, Sequel
John Porter, Charter Properties
Ken Szymanski

Learn more about UrbanPlan here. Interested in getting involved? Contact Lauren Simonetti at [email protected].