2024 Vision Award Winner
Sinclair Black, Principal of Black + Motal

The ULI Austin Vision Award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in his or her lifetime within the Austin region. The Vision Award represents the highest honor one can receive from ULI Austin, and it speaks to an individual’s impact not just within the real estate industry but to our community as a whole.  This year, we are honored to present Sinclair Black, Principal of Black + Motal, with the 2024 Vision Award.

View Press Release for more information about Sinclair Black and ULI Austin’s Vision Award.

Best Project Design: This award recognizes a completed project which demonstrates excellence in design that exemplifies or supports ULI’s mission.

Winner: Texas Children’s Hospital North Campus
Texas Children’s Hospital, one of the top-ranked hospitals in America providing pediatric and maternal-fetal care, has opened a brand-new, greenfield hospital for children and women in Austin, Texas. The four building, $485 million facility brings the premier Texas Children’s Hospital brand to Central Texas, and with a local flare.

Nominated projects included (finalists highlighted in red)
301 Congress Avenue
1515 E Cesar Chavez
Dell Jewish Community Center
Nix Patterson
Texas Children’s Hospital North Campus
Uptown Sports Club

Best Project Innovation: This award highlights originality and creativity in development and can include aspects of design, place-making, supporting public transit, sustainability, financing (including public/private partnerships), innovative land use or community planning or other inventive features.

Winner: Community First! Pavilion
The new Community Pavilion and Art Installation at Community First! Village creates an inviting space for neighbors and visitors to gather, provides shelter at the community’s mailboxes, and enhances pedestrian safety at this bustling intersection, embodying their mission to provide shelter and community to those previously suffering from chronic homelessness.

Nominated projects included (finalists highlighted in red)
301 Congress Avenue
4000 Medical Parkway
Community First! Pavilion
St. John Encampment Commons
Travis County Civil & Family Courts Facility
Zilker Studios

Most Influential Project: This award recognizes a completed project that creates a positive impact beyond its immediate borders and energizes the development of the surrounding community, resulting in a lasting effect on the built environment.

Winner: Travis County Civil and Family Court Facility
The Travis County Civil and Family Court Facility is a modern 13-story courthouse in downtown Austin, developed through a public/private partnership to replace the aging Heman Marion Sweatt Courthouse. Addressing the county’s growing demands, this state-of-the-art facility took over a decade to plan and was ultimately realized through an innovative Progressive Development approach.

Nominated projects included (finalists highlighted in red)
Dell Jewish Community Center
Eastside Early College High School
Travis County Civil & Family Courts Facility
Zilker Studios

Best Public Place: This award recognizes a completed project that provides the public with enhanced civic, open or public space access or experiences.

Winner: St. John Encampment Commons
St. John Encampment Commons transformed the easternmost section of the former Highland Mall parking lot into a signature urban park for the mixed-use ACC Highland campus redevelopment. The design demonstrates the economic importance of the public realm while creating a rich narrative about history, environmental responsibility and social equity.

Nominated projects included (finalists highlighted in red):
301 Congress Avenue
Community First! Pavilion
Dell Jewish Community Center
Round Rock Public Library
Skyline Park
St. John Encampment Commons
Travis County Civil & Family Courts Facility

Next Big Idea: This award goes to an upcoming project, master planning effort, redevelopment, program, policy or ‘idea’ that will transform our industry and our community. This award recognizes innovative ideas that can positively impact the region’s quality of life.

Winner: Brodie Oaks Redevelopment
The Brodie Oaks Redevelopment blends environmental stewardship, connectivity, and sustainable design, revitalizing a 1980s retail center into a $1 billion transit-oriented development with 1,700 residential units, affordable housing, 1.6 million square feet of office and retail space, and 3 miles of trails, cutting impervious surfaces from 84% to 54%.

Nominated projects included (finalists highlighted in red):
Austin ISD Repurposing Land
Austin Small Developer Training
Brodie Oaks Redevelopment
Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) Strategy Study
Great Springs Project
Highpoint at 2222
The Ivory
Old 6th
Rally Austin