Legacy landowners (family offices, institutions, public agencies) often need to balance two competing imperatives – optimizing the value of their asset while demonstrating more responsible forms of development or stewardship.  UrbanGreen works with many clients over many years helping them hold their aspirations while delivering practical, real world solutions.

As generational wealth transfers and more workers are untethered to a corporate campus, small towns with a high-quality-of-life are facing increased growth challenges.  Rising housing prices, increased community friction over new development and a call to better define the future they want. UrbanGreen has developed a common sense set of tools and deliverables that help foster informed conversations leading to community based solutions emerging from growth.

Since 1995, UrbanGreen has been at the forefront of sustainable community development – helping to define many of the principles and techniques for the Urban Land Institute and as an advisor to BioRegional’s One Planet Living program. UrbanGreen has evolved their approach and deliverables as the industry has expanded the concepts of sustainability to embrace other related ideas including resilience and now circularity.

The increased complexity, and arguably – academic nature – of many policies means they are often disconnected from the very market forces they are meant to help redirect.  UrbanGreen collaborates with firms specializing in policy development to bring a market balanced voice to leading to new codes, policies and tools.