The announcement of the seven award winners capped a six-month process that began when ULI New York opened nominations in September 2015. A total of 14 finalists across the six award categories were announced recently.

The award winners (with project descriptions) are:

Excellence in Housing Development

Hunter's Point South Living – Queens, NY

Developers: Related Companies, Phipps Houses, and Monadnock Development

Hunter's Point South is a multi-phase, mixed-use affordable housing development on a 30-acre post-industrial waterfront site in Long Island City. The development involves inter-agency coordination along with inter-sector collaboration, pairing private developers and these public agencies, ULI states. When completed, the project will include approximately 5,000 units of housing, making it the largest new affordable housing development in New York City completed since the 1970s.

Excellence in Repositioning or Redevelopment

Brookfield Place – New York, NY

Developer/Owner: Brookfield Property Partners

Located along the Hudson River just south of Tribeca, Brookfield Place is an 8-million-square-foot office and retail complex formerly known as the World Financial Center. In 2011, Brookfield embarked on a $300-million renovation project to reenergize the common areas and redevelop the retail offerings to serve a growing Lower Manhattan. The changes expanded the retail to include 375,000 square feet of luxury and contemporary fashion, a 30,000-square-foot French style marketplace Le District, the 30,000-square-foot fast-casual Hudson Eats, and top-tier dining options. A new dramatic glass pavilion on West Street serves as the main entryway to the complex.

Excellence in Institutional Development (co-winners)

September 11 Memorial Museum & Pavilion – New York, NY

Owner: National September 11 Museum & Memorial

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum site, is a 314,000-square-foot complex. The museum opened to the public in May 2014 and has since experienced more than 4.3 million visitors. Complementing the power and simplicity of the pools and the trees, Snøhetta has designed a visually accessible, unimposing building which is fully integrated into the Memorial site. With its low, horizontal form and its uplifting geometry the pavilion acts as a bridge between the memorial and the museum. Concrete, raw and polished, is the predominant material of the floor and walls that survived within the 70 feet deep excavation of the remediated World Trade Center site.

St. Ann's Warehouse – Brooklyn, NY

Developer/Owner: St. Ann's Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse is a 36-year-old performance organization based in Brooklyn Heights. A haven for foreign, avant-garde and puppetry performance, the theater was working out of temporary spaces in Brooklyn until now. Its new permanent home in an 1860s restored tobacco warehouse was developed in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Excellence in Mixed-Use Development

East Harlem Center for Living and Learning – New York, NY

Developer: Jonathan Rose Companies (owner, apartments) and Harlem RBI (owner, school and office)

The East Harlem Center for Living & Learning at Washington Houses, located on the corner lot of 2nd Avenue and East 104th Street in East Harlem, is an approximately 160,000-square-foot multifamily and mixed-use building that consists of 89 affordable housing units, a 70,000-square-foot K-8 charter school and 6,000 square feet of non-profit office space. New York City Parks' Blake Hobbs Park was rehabilitated and reimagined as part of the project and serves as the entry to the DREAM Charter School from 2nd Avenue.

Excellence in Civic Space

No. 7 Line Extension Project – New York, NY

Owner: NYC Transit

The new 34th St-Hudson Yards station features modern amenities that introduce subway service to the far West Side of midtown Manhattan, fostering transit-oriented development in the emerging, mixed-use neighborhood and supporting the Hudson Yards development. The station makes the No.7 line the only subway line south of 59th Street to provide service west of 9th Avenue. The design for this new deep station addresses passenger safety, comfort and convenience, as well as technical system requirements such as egress, power and ventilation. Designed to accommodate more than 35,000 passengers in a peak hour, the new station will be the busiest station serving a single line when the area is fully developed.

NEW YORK CITY—The winners of the inaugural “Awards for Excellence in Development” by the Urban Land Institute New York run the gamut from affordable housing, mixed-use, office, as well as entertainment- and civic-oriented projects.

Six of the seven award-winning projects are located in New York City. ULI-New York bestowed its Excellence in Office Development to Coventus Partners, LLP and developer Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. for the seven-story Class A office facility for the Center for Collaborative Medicine in Buffalo, NY.

The big names that took home ULI awards included Brookfield Property Partners, Related Companies, Jonathan Rose, New York City Transit and the September 11 Museum & Memorial.

“We are proud to help drive the conversation around sustainable development by recognizing leaders in our field who are changing the game and doing it right,” says ULI New York chairman Robert C. Lieber. “Our inaugural awards were just a first step in a long-term effort to raise the bar even higher for New York real estate. We look forward to making the Awards for Excellence in Development the top industry competition in New York for many years to come.”

The announcement of the seven award winners capped a six-month process that began when ULI New York opened nominations in September 2015. A total of 14 finalists across the six award categories were announced recently.

The award winners (with project descriptions) are:

Excellence in Housing Development

Hunter's Point South Living – Queens, NY

Developers: Related Companies, Phipps Houses, and Monadnock Development

Hunter's Point South is a multi-phase, mixed-use affordable housing development on a 30-acre post-industrial waterfront site in Long Island City. The development involves inter-agency coordination along with inter-sector collaboration, pairing private developers and these public agencies, ULI states. When completed, the project will include approximately 5,000 units of housing, making it the largest new affordable housing development in New York City completed since the 1970s.

Excellence in Repositioning or Redevelopment

Brookfield Place – New York, NY

Developer/Owner: Brookfield Property Partners

Located along the Hudson River just south of Tribeca, Brookfield Place is an 8-million-square-foot office and retail complex formerly known as the World Financial Center. In 2011, Brookfield embarked on a $300-million renovation project to reenergize the common areas and redevelop the retail offerings to serve a growing Lower Manhattan. The changes expanded the retail to include 375,000 square feet of luxury and contemporary fashion, a 30,000-square-foot French style marketplace Le District, the 30,000-square-foot fast-casual Hudson Eats, and top-tier dining options. A new dramatic glass pavilion on West Street serves as the main entryway to the complex.

Excellence in Institutional Development (co-winners)

September 11 Memorial Museum & Pavilion – New York, NY

Owner: National September 11 Museum & Memorial

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum site, is a 314,000-square-foot complex. The museum opened to the public in May 2014 and has since experienced more than 4.3 million visitors. Complementing the power and simplicity of the pools and the trees, Snøhetta has designed a visually accessible, unimposing building which is fully integrated into the Memorial site. With its low, horizontal form and its uplifting geometry the pavilion acts as a bridge between the memorial and the museum. Concrete, raw and polished, is the predominant material of the floor and walls that survived within the 70 feet deep excavation of the remediated World Trade Center site.

St. Ann's Warehouse – Brooklyn, NY

Developer/Owner: St. Ann's Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse is a 36-year-old performance organization based in Brooklyn Heights. A haven for foreign, avant-garde and puppetry performance, the theater was working out of temporary spaces in Brooklyn until now. Its new permanent home in an 1860s restored tobacco warehouse was developed in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Excellence in Mixed-Use Development

East Harlem Center for Living and Learning – New York, NY

Developer: Jonathan Rose Companies (owner, apartments) and Harlem RBI (owner, school and office)

The East Harlem Center for Living & Learning at Washington Houses, located on the corner lot of 2nd Avenue and East 104th Street in East Harlem, is an approximately 160,000-square-foot multifamily and mixed-use building that consists of 89 affordable housing units, a 70,000-square-foot K-8 charter school and 6,000 square feet of non-profit office space. New York City Parks' Blake Hobbs Park was rehabilitated and reimagined as part of the project and serves as the entry to the DREAM Charter School from 2nd Avenue.

Excellence in Civic Space

No. 7 Line Extension Project – New York, NY

Owner: NYC Transit

The new 34th St-Hudson Yards station features modern amenities that introduce subway service to the far West Side of midtown Manhattan, fostering transit-oriented development in the emerging, mixed-use neighborhood and supporting the Hudson Yards development. The station makes the No.7 line the only subway line south of 59th Street to provide service west of 9th Avenue. The design for this new deep station addresses passenger safety, comfort and convenience, as well as technical system requirements such as egress, power and ventilation. Designed to accommodate more than 35,000 passengers in a peak hour, the new station will be the busiest station serving a single line when the area is fully developed.