ULI Washington relocates to Hickok Cole’s DC HQ
ULI Washington, one of the largest district councils of the Urban Land Institute with nearly 2,000 members across the National Capital region, has relocated to our DC office!
The move marks a deliberate shift in how ULI Washington serves its members. For years, a majority of their programming was delivered from a single downtown location. Moving forward, programs will rotate across the region — with a regular cadence of monthly programming at our office and the new ULI Global headquarters in DC’s Golden Triangle neighborhood, alongside programs hosted throughout the District, Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland.
“Our members are distributed across the entire National Capital Region, and our programming should reflect that,” said William Herbig, Executive Director of ULI Washington. “Co-locating with Hickok Cole in NoMa gives us a dedicated home for the work of a district council, and anchoring monthly programs at ULI Global’s new headquarters keeps us connected to the broader institute. Between those two anchors and programs across the region, we’re better positioned to serve members where they are.”
A partnership decades in the making
Sharing our space with ULI Washington formalizes a relationship that has existed in practice for years. Principal emeritus and our co-founder, Yolanda Cole, is a past chair of ULI Washington, and several people in the firm hold active leadership roles across the district council today. Many of our projects have won ULI Awards of Excellence and have been featured as ULI Washington case studies.
“Welcoming ULI Washington into our studio is about more than shared square footage; it’s about shared purpose. ULI Washington’s commitment to responsible land use and urban innovation mirrors what drives our work every day. We’ve long believed that great office design creates flexible environments where like-minded organizations can co-locate and bring together different perspectives focused on a common goal. Having ULI Washington share our studio space is exactly that kind of collaboration made tangible,” said Rob Holzbach, FAIA, Senior Principal and Director of Commercial Office.
“ULI Washington and Hickok Cole have grown alongside each other for a long time. Sharing a studio makes formal what’s already true,” Herbig said. “Our members and their team will be in the same space, in one of the region’s most dynamic neighborhoods. That kind of proximity is how good projects get better.”