mTAP Reports | ULI Atlanta

Center for Leadership 2026 mTAP Projects

We’re thrilled to announce that the Center for Leadership (CFL) Class of 2026 has partnered with these incredible organizations to tackle transformative projects across Georgia!

The mTAP (Mini Technical Assistance Panel) is the capstone project of the Center for Leadership, a program of ULI Atlanta. As part of their leadership development, participants form mTAP teams to provide pro bono technical assistance to a public agency or nonprofit organization in the Atlanta region. These teams tackle real-world land use, real estate, or community development challenges that align with ULI’s mission to shape the future of the built environment for transformative community impact. Through the mTAP, clients gain expert insights and strategic recommendations, while participants apply their skills to solve meaningful problems in the field. The following projects reflect the depth and breadth of the mTAP program:

2025 mTAP

Atlanta Beltline Partnership – Support for the Legacy Resident Retention Program (LRRP)
Atlanta Beltline requested that the team create a reliable, easy-to-use cost estimating platform (“tax projection model”) to set targets and strengthen the case for fundraising. The platform must be easy to use, target specific areas, and be able to be modified.

City of Chattahoochee Hills – Rico Road Parcel Land Use Analysis
The client requested that the team create a Land Use Master Plan for the 45-acre city-owned property; Build on the vision of three master plans: GA Tech Studio, ULI mTAP Study (2021), and Farmer D Plan. Recommend design principles, street typologies, & Sections; and present recommendations for future development

Little 5 Points CID & Little 5 Points Alliance – Little 5 Points Parking District
The client requested that the team create a strategy and recommendations to promote an effective Parking Managed District for Little 5 Points that properly utilizes existing parking capacity, as well as identifies opportunities to unlock the full potential for those facilities and develop new parking assets and/or programs.

Morris Brown College – Land Use Strategic Plan
Morris Brown College requested that the team develop a comprehensive Land Use Strategic Plan designed to align with the College’s mission and future growth goals. This strategic initiative will guide the Institution in optimizing its campus resources, improving infrastructure, and creating a sustainable environment for academic and community success.

DeKalb County Planning & Sustainability – Oak Creek Park Trail Feasibility Study
The client requested that the team conduct a feasibility study of the Oak Creek Park Trail that aims to explore and evaluate connectivity to Oak Creek Park while addressing key community needs and environmental challenges.

City of Stone Mountain DDA – Downtown Revitalization Strategy
The client requested that the team develop a property acquisition strategy; identify potential highest and best uses; and develop a strategy to partner with investors and developers to revitalize buildings to bring new businesses to the City of Stone Mountain.

2024 mTAPs

Decide DeKalb
Addressing Business Growth & Retention Along Redeveloping Corridors

Ebeneezer Baptist Church of Atlanta
Create a land-use plan to actualize EBC’s strategic plan. Focusing on: MLK Sr. Community Resources Complex (101 Jackson Street); 26 Jackson Street (vacant quadruples); 410 + 412 Edgewood Ave (vacant lots); and 407 Auburn Ave (vacant lot behind the Historic Ebenezer.)

Livable Buckhead
Provide advice and recommendations regarding an “Embodied Carbon Action Plan” and implementing embodied carbon standards.

Atlanta Public Schools (APS) – Lakewood Heights Elementary
APS sought innovative recommendations, an affordability analysis, and creative preservation approaches for the Lakewood Heights Elementary School historic structure.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Provide a landscape assessment of the stakeholder organizations operating in Atlanta working to preserve its stock of affordable single-family housing. (Appendix).

2023 mTAPs

City of Alpharetta
Prepare a strategy to consider for Brookside Parkway to increase occupancy beyond the 10-year average. Determine how this strategy can be implemented in such a way that negative impacts to the environment are considered, evaluated, and reduced.
Energy Reduction & Sustainability Resources for Industrial Buildings
Provide educational resources related to decarbonization and sustainability for industrial property owners.

Gwinnett Place Mall CID
Determine what regulations, procurement practices, and policies are impeding design and construction companies from implementing innovative sustainable, net-zero strategies. If there are barriers, how can they be innovatively eliminated?

Livable BuckheadProvide advice and recommendations on the following:

Bringing awareness and education on embodied carbon to the Buckhead community.
Identifying tools and benchmarks that developers and contractors can use to gauge their performance in reducing embodied carbon in commercial development.
Developing an actionable plan to facilitate developers’ and contractors’ reduction of embodied carbon in the built environment.
Differentiate Buckhead from other commercial districts in Atlanta through a sustainability initiative focused on reducing
embodied carbon.

Presentation, Embody Carbon Action Plan (ECAP), and Guidebook.

Mercy Housing
Identify strategies and actionable steps for the affordable housing industry, particularly developers of low-income housing tax credit (“LIHTC”) properties, to advance the efforts for sustainable building as an iterative step, ultimately towards a longer-term Net Zero vision.

City of Tucker
Recommendations to the City of Tucker for sustainable development along the City of Tucker’s planned trail system.

2022 mTAPs

Pittsburgh Yards
Prepare a marketing package to be used by the Client and Client’s brokerage team to assist in attracting a master developer and prospective end users.

Decide DeKalb
Develop recommendations for improved food access by encouraging investors to contribute and/or build grocery stores that provide access to fresh foods for residents within the area.

City of Atlanta Department of City Planning
Develop a strategic approach to implementing a design review process customized to the specialized needs of Atlanta.

Central Atlanta Progress – Forge Atlanta
Develop actionable recommendations to inform future predevelopment investment and strategic business planning for the Forge’s planned mixed-use interdisciplinary innovation district in the following core components: 1) Industry Context, 2) Programs/Land Uses, and 3) The Site.

Tucker-Northlake CID: “South of the Tracks”
Identify and suggest strategies for candidate parcels for redevelopment, historic properties that should be preserved, or are candidates for adaptive reuse, support the goals of the Downtown Master Plan, are consistent with the land use as established in the Tucker Comprehensive Plan and identify funding and revenue sources for redevelopment.

City of Decatur
Identify and compile information detailing naturally occurring affordable housing within the City of Decatur limits and providing a report of the findings.

Atlanta Land Trust
Develop a lease-purchase program for some or all of the 24 homes being developed by ALT and Invest Atlanta in the Vine City and English Avenue neighborhoods for legacy residents (below 60% AMI) providing them with a pathway to affordable homeownership and mitigating their displacement.

2021 mTAPs

City of Tucker
Develop a highest and best use development feasibility study to trigger the redevelopment of a 38+ acre suburban strip retail center in the inner ring suburb of Tucker.

Invest Atlanta
Highest and best use analysis for four contiguous parcels located in the Vine City neighborhood immediately west of downtown Atlanta, containing 7.8 acres of property formerly used by Morris Brown College.

Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC)
A strategy to guide desired investment outcomes for our neighborhood: The Sweet Auburn Green & Equitable District will be Atlanta’s premier “equity-district,” creating a socially impactful ecosystem for the transitional neighborhood.

City of Chattahoochee Hills
Assistance creating a master plan for a new downtown on 45 acres of city-owned property in the Rico Historic Crossroads Community.

City of Avondale
Assistance identifying land use and development options that deliver a quality product with good urbanism along its “Main Street” corridor.

Grove Park Foundation
Development study identifying opportunities for Grove Park Foundation to leverage and revitalize parcels it controls (along with other friendly landowners) along “Main Street” to catalyze results that align with the multifaceted mission of equity, access and affordability.

MARTA
Highest and best development option(s) for the 15-acre Windward Parkway Park + Ride lot that would complement and support the future Windward Parkway Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Station.