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Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use
The mission of the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use is to encourage and support excellence in land use decision making. By providing public officials with access to information, best practices, peer networks, and other resources, the Rose Center seeks to foster creative, efficient, practical, and sustainable land use policies.
2009 Shaw Forum – Maximizing the Neighborhood Stabilization Program Opportunity
The ninth annual ULI Shaw Forum, co-hosted by the ULI Rose Center & the ULI Terwilliger Center, and generously supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the late Charlie Shaw, took place on October 14, 2009.  More than 25 hand-selected public and private sector leaders from across the country gathered at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to kick off the forum, entitled Maximizing the Neighborhood Stabilization Program Opportunity.

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Four Mayors Named as Rose Fellows
Phoenix, Minneaopolis, Nashville & Philadelphia mayors
ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use appointed the Mayors of Phoenix, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Philadelphia (photo above: left to right) as fellows to serve in the Center through 2010.  Each of the four mayors is leading a team of three additional fellows from their respective cities.  Over the upcoming year, each city's team will work with leading experts in the real estate development, finance, and land use fields to tackle complex land use issues facing each community.

November 2009 Newsletter

Check out the Rose Center's third issue of its bi-monthly e-newsletter.  Highlights include:

  • Mayors of Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia and Phoenix choose their leadership teams to partake in a new Rose Center fellowship
  • Podcast of a mayors' panel on neighborhood stabalization from the 2009 Shaw Forum held in Los Angeles, CA.
  • Highlights from the Rose Center public officials' track at the ULI Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
  • More Fall Meeting highlights from the mayor fellows convening in San Francisco.
  • New position available with the Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use.
  • Downloadable PDF on the language of sustainability.
  • Rose Center publishes interview with 6 mayors in the Next American City Magazine


2009 ULI Fall Meeting | Public Officials Scholarship Program
The ULI Daniel Rose Center is pleased to announce that public officials are eligible to receive a substantial scholarship to attend this year’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The meeting will be held November 3-6, and will include a special suggested track for public officials, and a reception honoring public officials. The scholarships are provided through the generous support of AMB Property Corporation, and the scholarship recipients will be eligible for at least a $550 reduction in their registration rates at the Fall Meeting (deadline is October 1st).




Contact the Rose Center

Jess Zimbabwe
Executive Director
Phone: 202-624-7038
E-mail: jess.zimbabwe@uli.org

Heidi Sweetnam
Vice President, Community
Phone: 202-624-7170
E-mail: hsweetnam@uli.org

Dana Van Galder
Associate, Community
Phone: 202-624-7014
E-mail: dana.vangalder@uli.org

ULI Rose Center Supporters
In addition to the founding and sustaining support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose, the work of the Rose Center is underwritten by companies and organization that share our vision of responsible public sector land use decision-making. The following companies are a part of the Daniel Rose Center’s Principals’ Circle
Upcoming Workshops

The ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use is pleased to announce workshops especially designed to provide public officials with the perspective and tools they need to promote and manage sustainable development.

Currently no new workshops are scheduled.