The year was off to a surprisingly good start, at least for the domestic economy.

Mike Ratliff and Jack Kern dissect the results from our survey of equity providers to gain some insight into how and where firms are investing their funds for 2012. Make sure to read the full results in the January issue.

A surprising round of good news ahead of the holidays.

David Abbenante, President of HRI Management, talks about how the company has helped rebuild New Orleans by turning abandoned industrial buildings into thriving multi-housing communities.

A surprising round of good news ahead of the holidays.

States under fiscal duress are rethinking traditional urban redevelopment models. In California the Redevelopment Agency system is, barring state supreme court reversal of earlier decisions, expected to virtually disappear. An Urban Land Institute panel of experts discusses how cities, developers and investors will operate in a post-RDA world.

U.S. consumers aren’t opening their wallets quite as much as retailers thought, and Europe sinks back into a debt funk.

Was the agreement reached in Brussels good news for the economy? No one knows yet.

Emerging Trends crafters Jonathan Miller and Stephen Blank discuss this year’s findings with MHN TV during the ULI Fall Meeting.

The U.S. is still tepid, but at least the euro-zone situation didn’t blow up this week.