2025 ULI Housing Awards Webinar Series: The Wilder

When

2026-04-22
2026-04-22T13:00:00 - 2026-04-22T14:00:00
America/New_York

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    Each year, through the ULI Housing Awards, projects across the country showcase their impact on the industry through financing, policy, and partnership innovation. Winning projects highlight replicable strategies that can scale and expand housing supply nationwide. Each webinar in this ULI member-exclusive series will feature one of the five winners—showcasing their project case studies, pro formas, policy angles, financial strategy, and community engagement.

    The Wilder is an adaptive-reuse development project, transforming a 1970s roadside motel into 97 units of permanent, mixed-income workforce housing in the urban core of Nashville, Tennessee. Learn how recent policy changes, especially Nashville's Mixed-Income Housing PILOT program, allowed this project to support workforce level rents (60%-100% AMI) without traditional public subsidies or tax credit programs. Hear from the development team about the challenges of adaptive reuse conversions within the building's existing footprint, their broader community masterplan, and the extensive community engagement that helped fill a neighborhood need.

    Speakers

    Moderator

    Bonita Broadnax

    Sr. Director of Housing & Operations, Jeremiah Program

    Bonita Broadnax, currently Senior Director of Housing & Operations for the Jeremiah Program, is a housing and community development leader with extensive experience in affordable housing operations, compliance, and trauma-informed property management. She holds a master’s degree in international Community Development, a Graduate Certificate in Leadership in Affordable Housing, and professional designations including WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP), Fair Housing Compliance (FHC), Specialist in Housing Credit Management (SHCM), Trauma-Informed Property Management, and Certified Professional of Occupancy (CPO). Bonita’s work centers on advancing housing stability through equitable policy, operational excellence, and human-centered, health-focused design.

    Panelist

    Clay Adkisson

    Managing Partner, OPENWORKS

    Clay Adkisson is an urban designer and real estate developer passionate about building a better sense of “community" in our growing urban neighborhoods. A native Nashvillian, Clay’s design and planning work there has helped revive many of Nashville’s most admired neighborhoods into walkable, active urban cores. His experience designing and constructing retail, commercial, and affordable housing projects focuses on balancing needed neighborhood amenities with opportunities to create value for surrounding communities at large. Clay holds a Master of Urban Design from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Tennessee. When he is not trying to help improve the built environment, you can find him making furniture, running trails, or snowboarding a big mountain.

    Panelist

    Travis Miller

    Housing Policy and Program Associate, Nashville Metro Planning Dept

    Travis Miller is the Housing Policy and Program Coordinator for the Metro Nashville Housing Division. They lead work to align the city’s housing development programs with key policy priorities and supports the administration of the Mixed-Income PILOT and the Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program (CHIP). Travis focuses on expanding housing security and promoting equitable, community centered development across Nashville.

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