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These students from The University of Texas at Austin wowed the judges of the 2026 ULI /Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Now in its 24th year, the competition was endowed by Gerald Hines to encourage a new generation of real estate and urban design leaders to create better communities and tackle big problems through innovation. This year, the Urban Land Institute challenged contestants to reimagine a former shopping mall as a thriving, mixed-use, mixed-income development. The winning plan, entitled “The GreenLink,” presents a vision where the “wound” left by Austin’s highway I-35 is converted into an urban green belt interwoven with new development to “heal the land, heal the body, and heal the community.” Join us in congratulating the winners, as well as the runners up from Columbia University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ex6qtCXu