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ULI SPRING MEETING ULI SPRING MEETING
Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, United States May 12-14, 2025
Presenter

Ms. Heather Grey-Wolf

Chief Development Officer Infrastructure Ontario

Heather Grey-Wolf is the Chief Development Officer of Infrastructure Ontario and leads IO's $75 billion Development program. Heather's growing portfolio consists of 70+ sites across three business lines, including transit-oriented communities, social purpose projects and landmark projects. Since joining IO in 2021, Heather has built a team of development professionals and a portfolio of 150,000 housing units in 150 million square feet of mixed-used real estate. Heather's expertise is a unique blend of development leadership in both the public and private sectors. She is passionate about leading development projects at scale, building team culture and driving results. Heather has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, a B.Arch and B.Sc from McGill University, and is a licensed architect with the Ontario Association of Architects. Heather is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Crombie REIT.

Speaking at

Thu Apr 11 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time New York Hilton Midtown - Level 3, Trianon Ballroom

Building the 15-Minute Community: Leadership Strategies in Real Estate and Infrastructure

Fifteen-minute communities hold the promise of accelerating decarbonization, increasing housing affordability, reducing climate and health risks, and fostering social equity. This approach to city building lays a foundation for developing compact, mixed-use, and walkable communities that can increase real estate value, create co-benefits for joint use and co-location, and generate new resources to help invest in local communities. The ULI Curtis Infrastructure Initiative created Building 15-Minute Communities: A Leadership Guide to share actionable leadership strategies across public, private, and nonprofit sectors to decarbonize metro regions with a network of 15-minute transit-oriented communities; diversify urban central business districts into affordable, live-in downtowns; humanize edge cities into heat-proof, resilient, retirement, and child-friendly communities; densify suburban corridors into walkable, mixed-use innovation districts; transform suburban malls into transit and trail-oriented mixed-use communities; and activate exurbs as working landscapes of agrihoods and nature-based solutions. Learn about this practical tool for aligning leadership actions to implementation.