1 ULI Charlotte, ULI South Carolina, and ULI Triangle invite teams of architects, landscape architects, designers, planners, artists, students, and members of the real estate development community to submit visionary proposals for redevelopment of a preselected site in the 2017 Carolinas’ Meeting host city of Charlotte. Submissions by multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged and at least one team member must be a ULI member. The purpose of the competition is to gather ideas to stimulate discussion and to encourage bold ideas and practical solutions that address the issues facing a particular site and community in Charlotte. Proposals should lead to bold ideas and inquiry into the highest and best use of the site—ultimately arming the client organization with fresh thinking and useable insight into real challenges. The competition will not require proposals to show financial feasibility, but teams should consider market realities and viability. The competition finalists will be announced prior to the 2017 Carolinas’ Meeting and will present during a general session in front of an audience of their peers. All teams will be invited to display their submission on a board during the Meeting. There is no commitment to develop or implement any of the ideas submitted. About the Competition Urban Ideas Competition Briefing Book The Urban Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members. Founded in 1936, ULI has more than 39,000 members worldwide, representing the entire spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines working in private enterprise and public service. As the preeminent, multidisciplinary real estate forum, ULI facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information, and experience among local, national, and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places. The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Members say ULI is a place where leaders come to grow professionally and personally through sharing, mentoring, and problem solving. With pride, ULI members commit to the best in land use policy and practice. About ULI
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ULI Charlotte, ULI South Carolina, and ULI Triangle invite teams of architects, landscape architects, designers, planners, artists, students, and members of the real estate development community to submit visionary proposals for redevelopment of a preselected site in the 2017 Carolinas’ Meeting host city of Charlotte.
Submissions by multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged and at least one team member must be a ULI member. The purpose of the competition is to gather ideas to stimulate discussion and to encourage bold ideas and practical solutions that address the issues facing a particular site and community in Charlotte. Proposals should lead to bold ideas and inquiry into the highest and best use of the site—ultimately arming the client organization with fresh thinking and useable insight into real challenges. The competition will not require proposals to show financial feasibility, but teams should consider market realities and viability.
The competition finalists will be announced prior to the 2017 Carolinas’ Meeting and will present during a general session in front of an audience of their peers. All teams will be invited to display their submission on a board during the Meeting.
There is no commitment to develop or implement any of the ideas submitted.
About the Competition
Urban Ideas Competition
Briefing Book
The Urban Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members. Founded in 1936, ULI has more than 39,000 members worldwide, representing the entire spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines working in private enterprise and public service. As the preeminent, multidisciplinary real estate forum, ULI facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information, and experience among local, national, and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places.
The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.
Members say ULI is a place where leaders come to grow professionally and personally through sharing, mentoring, and problem solving. With pride, ULI members commit to the best in land use policy and practice.
About ULI
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Location & ContextThe subject site is located on N. Tryon Street in the University City area of Charlotte. Once a declining edge city dominated by suburban development patterns centered on UNC Charlotte, the delivery of the LYNX Blue Line Extension (BLE) is bringing new investment to the area in anticipation of its opening in the third quarter of 2017.
The University City Boulevard Station area is largely greenfield and offers significant development opportunities. The station itself is accompanied by a 1,200-space parking deck facing the station platform, which includes 7,000 square feet of ground floor retail.
While two separate owners of 80-acres on the west side of N. Tryon Street have been working collaboratively on designs for a large mixed-use development focused on a major office tenant, the subject site, located on the east side of N. Tryon, has not received the same level of study.
The site is located two miles south of UNC Charlotte and six miles north of Uptown.
Site Description
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Size & Physical AttributesThe nearly 45-acre site is a combination of three parcels: 04918104, 04914120, 04914119. The site is heavily wooded, partially bisected by a stream, and abuts N. Tryon Street to the west and single-family neighborhoods to the east.
Brief HistoryThe subject site is a portion of more than 60-acres acquired by McKinney Holdings in 2012 at auction after the previous owner defaulted. McKinney holdings sold a southern 2.5-acre tract for the construction of a Circle-K gas station. A tract to the north of the subject site was rezoned in the fourth quarter of 2016 to TOD-M(CD), preciptating its sale to a student housing developer. The remaining 45-acre subject site is slated to be sold.
StakeholdersThe site abuts two single-family neighborhoods to the east who are likely to be most sensitive to future development. The site is located within the boundaries of a Municipal Service District operated by University City Partners, who regularly coordinates stakeholders during the development and rezoning process.
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Zoning & Applicable Plans/PoliciesThe subject site is currently zoned B-2 (CD) and is subject to the Blue Line Extension Plan and the University City Area Plan. The Blue Line Extension Transit Station Area Plans are policy documents that provide the framework for future growth and development along the second segment of Charlotte’s comprehensive rapid transit system that extends from 9th Street in Center City through the North Davidson (NoDa) area to UNC Charlotte. These plans primarily focus on land use, transportation and community design, and update portions of several previously adopted area plans. Elected and appointed officials will use the transit station area plans as policy guidance when making land use, zoning, and capital investment decisions.
Note: Transit Station Area Plans were completed for four of the nine BLE stations—Rocky River, City Boulevard, Harris/North Tryon and University City—as part of the University City Area Plan. However, as part of the Preliminary Engineering work, the Rocky River station was renamed “University City Boulevard” (located at the subject site), the City Boulevard and Harris/North Tryon stations were combined as one station, “McCullough,” and the University City station was renamed “JW Clay Boulevard.”
Pertinent plans, documents, and images are available for download from the competition webpage.
Transportation & TransitWith the opening of the LYNX Blue Line Extension in August of 2017, the University City Bouledvard Light Rail Station will be located in median of North Tryon Street immediately in front of the subject site. The station is one of nine stations in the Blue Line Extension. When complete, this system and the Blue Line will include 26 stations over 18 miles, linking the southern edge of I-485 to UNC-Charlotte.
North Tryon Street is a major thoroughfare in Charlotte and acts as its main street. It has an average annual daily traffic count of 25,000. University City Boulevard is also a major thoroughfare, located 1,700 feet north. It connects to I-85 in less than a mile from the intersection of North Tryon Street and University City Boulevard
Existing & Proposed UsesThe subject site is greenfield and currently zoned B-2 (CD). However, the City would prefer the parcels be rezoned to a district more reflective of its TOD potential, which should be assumed for the purposes of this exercise.
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EligibilitySubmissions by multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged. Teams may be composed of students and/or professionals, with no less than three and no more than eight members. At least one team member must be a ULI member.
Team leaders must register for the competition by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 3. Teams have until Friday, February 10 at 5:00 p.m. to submit their final team roster to [email protected].
AnonomityCompetitors must not communicate with the jury about the competition in any way until a public announcement of the winners is made. Any competitor or juror found in active violation of this rule will be disqualified immediately.
All first round entries must be submitted without any marks, logos, or writing that identify their authorship.
Once the jury has finished their deliberations, and the determination made as to the finalists, the names of the competitors be revealed to the jury.
Ownership & CopyrightAll materials submitted to the competition become the property of ULI and will not be returned. ULI retains rights to publish and exhibit all entries as detailed in the section “Exhibition & Publication” below without limitation. ULI reserves the right to utilize all materials submitted in any publication or promotional endeavour in perpetuity, and without compensation to the entrants.
Each competitor will retain full copyright of all their materials unless otherwise assigned. Each team retains the right to publish and exhibit their own entry.
Exhibition & PublicationULI intends to exhibit all or a selection of competition entries in a number of venues which may include online, in print, and in public at the Carolinas’ Meeting. Further, we intend to publish winners and selected entries to the competition both online and in print. Every effort will be made to properly credit the appropriate competitors in any exhibition, publication, or website, although ULI accepts no responsibility for failure to do so.
Questions & AnswersAll questions regarding the competitoin should be forwarded to [email protected] by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 13. A summary of all questions and answers will be shared with each team by February 15.
ScheduleJanuary 12 Competition announcement and call for teamsFebruary 3 Team registration dueFebruary 6 Competition begins (9:00 a.m. EST)February 13 Deadline for QuestionsFebruary 15 Summary of Questions & Answers publishedFebruary 24 Competition ends; deadline for submissions (5:00 p.m. EST)March 10 Finalists notifiedMarch 23-24 Carolinas’ Meeting; all entry boards displayedMarch 24 Finalists present during Urban Ideas Competition General Session (9:15 a.m. EST)
Competition Guidelines
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Electronic SubmissionA slide deck or Power Point presentation is due at the close of the competition on February 24. The presentation must meet the folowing requirements:
» 16:9 slide size ratio
» PDF format only
» No more than 16 slides
» One cover slide with assigned team number for identification
» Include:
› One conceptual statement (500 word maximum) describing the proposed design and development program
› Site Plan
› Sections, elevations, sketches, 3D renderings and/or photographs
Maps, plans, and drawings may be at any scale, but the scale you have chosen to use should be clearly indicated. All submissions should include the following five general elements: (1) planning context and analysis, (2) master land use plan, (3) urban design, and (4) site-specific illustrations.
The details of these elements are left up to you, but below are some suggested considerations: » Planning Context & Analysis
› paths, bikeways, pedestrian connections, and other means of access to the neighborhood
› environmental, sustainability, and aesthetic values
» Site-specific Illustrations
Your presentation should include annotated illustrations that zoom in on the site. This content might include plans, elevations, sections, and other renderings.
DeadlinePresentations will be submitted via Dropbox. Each team lead will be provided with a unique link. Submissions must be uploaded by 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, February 24.
Presentation BoardAll teams are expected to submit at 36”x48” presentation board for display during the 2017 Carolinas’ Meeting in Charlotte March 23-24. The board should include your conceptual statement, site plan, and any other illustrative images from your entry.
Presentation Boards are not due until the beginning of the conference on March 23. Further instructions for exhibition will be provided by ULI staff at a later date.
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The jury will select finalists that it deems as having best satisfied the combination of criteria as outlined in the competition challenge and described below.
Proposals should integrate planning and design decisions with a reasonable level of feasibility, and demonstrate awareness of design issues contributing to a workable, livable, sustainable configuration of development.
Proposals should also demonstrate an understanding of factors at play in building a sustainable and thriving community.
Criteria for Judging
While the jury may not ignore any of the above criteria, it may, if it wishes, use additional criteria in making its final decisions. The jurors will also rely on their knowledge and experience based on their expertise in land use. ULI strives to conduct a thorough, fair, and rigorous jury evaluation process. As a general rule, teams should make their presentations as clear and easy to understand as possible and strive to make a meaningful first impression by packaging presentations in a compelling and succinct fashion.
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