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Final Four: UM team a finalist in the ULI Hines Urban Design Competition
March 1st, 2009 — The 2009 ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is a graduate-level annual competition that is intended to provide an interdisciplinary learning experience for real estate and design students in the United States and Canada. Self-formed student teams are asked to provide an urban design and a financial feasibility strategy for a large-scale real life site that ULI has identified somewhere in the United States. Through the formation of multidisciplinary teams, the program encourages cooperation and teamwork among future real estate professionals and the many allied professions, such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, real estate development, finance, psychology, law, and others. Teams of students were challenged to create a design and development proposal for a 75-acre site, which is located a mile and half south of Denver adjacent to two light rail stations and the historic Baker and West Washington Park neighborhoods. According to real estate legend Gerald D. Hines, chairman and owner of the Hines real estate organization, “Through this competition, we are raising awareness among the students of the key role high quality urban design plays in creating sustainable living environments.”
Teams representing the University of Miami, Columbia University, Kansas State University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been selected as the finalists for the seventh annual ULI Hines Competition. In about two weeks, we will know if our team came in first and received the grand prize of $50,000, or came in second, third or fourth and received $30,000 to be split among them. Almost 500 students distributed among 98 teams representing 42 universities in the U.S. and Canada applied to compete in the competition. Participating schools included the University of Miami School of Architecture and the School of Business. Team members included Warren Bane, Benyameen Ghareeb, Jeffrey Hall, Victor Santana, and Jared Sedam from the Master of Business Administration, Master of Real Estate Development & Urbanism, Master of Architecture in Suburb & Town Design, and the Master of Architecture programs. Faculty advisors included Dr. Charles C. Bohl, Jaime Correa, and Stephen Nostrand, and graphic design by Ivonne Delapaz. The entries from the four finalists and six honorable mentions can be found on the competition website http://www.udcompetition.uli.org