Paula Harris

Let the SUN Shine—on Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

By Paula Harris, Principal, Senior Vice President, Golub & Company There’s nothing but blue sky in the future of Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods (SUNs)—live-work-play areas with a strong appeal to upscale renters and companies seeking to employ them. The challenge for institutional investors is to identify and capture the best opportunities for high-yield investment. We’ve all seen this trend in recent years: companies have stepped up their pursuit of talented college graduates in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Whereas in the past, workers gravitated to cities where the jobs were, today companies are growing in markets where STEM workers choose…