Creating and Sustaining Thriving Communities Worldwide Through ULI Membership with Wes Craiglow, AICP – Ep. 47 - a podcast by Matthew Loos, P.E.

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I am extremely excited to share this next conversation with all of you. Wes Craiglow is the Northwest Arkansas Coordinator for the Urban Land Institute. In this capacity, he is responsible for uniting the mission of ULI with NWA real estate trends and land-use professionals through the use of technical assistance, events, and leader development. Before joining ULI as the NWA Coordinator, Wes worked as a Planner and Deputy Director for Planning for over 10 years at the City of Conway, Arkansas. While studying Geography at UCA, Wes got a taste of how the built environment impacts the behaviors of individuals within the community. He then took this a step further in understanding and obtained a Master’s Degree in Community and Economic Development.ULI is a member-driven organization dedicated to advancing leadership in the responsible use of land and creating and sustaining thriving communities. At its core, ULI is the sum of its members, who themselves deliver the ULI mission, positively shaping the future of real estate and land use disciplines in ways that lead to the development of built environments that better serve more people. ULI members include real estate developers, builders, owners, finance and investment professionals, brokers, architects, engineers, urban planners, public officials, and more.
In this episode, we are going to discuss the importance of the Urban Land Institute’s Mission, how members can benefit from the ULI Organization, and all about the various events that ULI hosts in order to provide benefit to its members. There is loads of great information in this episode and I greatly appreciated Wes for taking the time out of his extremely busy schedule to discuss this topic of real estate development and the Urban Land Institute with me. As always, if you have enjoyed the show, please subscribe to the show and share it with your friends in the industry. There will be more exciting conversations on the shows to come.Main Take-Away’s From This Show
This was another fun episode to record. I thoroughly enjoyed Wes candidly sharing his story as well as the story of the Urban Land Institute. Wes is extremely passionate about the ULI organization, so I figured there was no one better to discuss the mission of this organization. His enthusiasm for the organization was evident when discussing the benefits of the organization to its members. There were so many great talking points that Wes made throughout the discussion, so it is hard to just pick three for my main take-away’s this week. The following main topics of the show come from an understanding in the mission of Urban Land Institute that Wes possesses.1. ULI was started as a member network by real estate developers that wanted to share knowledge and network almost 85 years ago.
2. Networking and Education are essentially the two main pillars of benefits provided to members of ULI.3. ULI is the “second-most” important membership that someone in the industry should be a part of.
As always, I will dig into each of these “take-away’s” every week on the blog. So, without further a due, here we go!ULI was started as a member network by real estate developers that wanted to share knowledge and network almost 85 years ago.According to ULI.org, “The National Real Estate Foundation for Practical Research and Education—the predecessor to the Urban Land Institute—is chartered in Illinois, with Walter S. Schmidt as its first president on December 14th, 1936. The model is that of a real estate college—a school of urbiculture—that could stand as an objective and recognized source of research an...

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