ULI Receives Contribution to Establish ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership

On Wednesday, ULI announced that real estate industry legend Daniel Rose has committed $5 million to the creation of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership.

The mission of the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership is to empower leaders in the public sector to envision, build and sustain successful 21st century communities by providing access to information, best practices, peer networks and other resources to foster creative, efficient and sustainable land use practices.

Rose’s gift is among the largest individual contributions ever made to the Institute. Rose is chairman of New York City-based Rose Associates, Inc., which operates throughout the East Coast as developer and manager of more than 30 million square feet of major office towers, commercial retail centers, mixed-use complexes, and high-rise residential buildings.

The guiding principles of the center will be 1) leadership in a regional context; 2) integrated problem solving; 3) public/private collaboration; and 4) experiential and peer-to-peer learning.

The ULI/Daniel Rose Center will initially undertake three programs: 1) the Daniel Rose Fellowship program; 2) workshops for public officials on sustainable development; and 3) public-private forums on key land use issues; with the fellowship serving as the flagship program of the center. The purpose of the fellowship will be to provide city leaders with the information, insights, peer-to-peer learning, best practices and experience they need to successfully build and sustain their cities. The fellowship will incorporate three over-arching themes: real estate finance and development; the interdependencies and respective roles of the public and private sectors; and the roles and importance of the public realm, its relationship to private property, and how the public sector can use the public realm as leverage to create viable communities.

The ULI Daniel Rose Fellowship will bring together high-level agency officials from a small group of select cities with top experts and development industry leaders to learn about real estate development and finance, land use concepts and best practices. These city leaders will be able to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of the experts and industry leaders to solve actual problems faced by their cities. Each fellowship, which will last one year, will be a prestigious honor, providing the highest quality learning experience for those who receive it.