How To Enter: Online registration is required for entry with a non-refundable registration fee of $75 USD. A packet of Background Materials, with base maps, photographs, data, and additional resources, is available for download here.

Submission Requirements: Only one graphic “panel” is required and must be submitted online in PDF and JPG format. Your entry panel should be anonymous and visually powerful with jargon-free text in English that clearly and concisely communicates the essence of your idea. Entries will be posted as an online display; thus, all competition entries are considered public and not confidential once submitted. The boards will be printed and displayed for judging and a public exhibition to take place in San Francisco. Entries should be formatted as a 24” by 36” vertical layout (portrait). A pre-jury screening process will disqualify any entries that do not comply with the requirements. If you do not have one already, you will be prompted to create a free ULI account before accessing the submission portal.

Scope: Ideas of all scales and topics are welcomed, including physical, spatial, operational, utilization, economic, policy, and any other strategy that can produce positive outcomes. The goal is to generate exciting, transformative visions for Market Street that would make the City proud and attract visitors and businesses from around the globe.

Ideas will be shared broadly and allow us to think differently about how cities can produce ingenious, surprising, and successful approaches to their most vexing urban challenges now and in the future, including those amplified by the pandemic.

Successful entries will suggest ways to counter the disruptive effects of remote work while also putting forward viable strategies and visions for creating new patterns of urban energy, productivity and joy. The competition seeks to stimulate new ideas to accommodate and celebrate changing patterns in the workplace, housing, tourism, mobility, entertainment, leisure, recreation, and especially the public realm of the street.

It is recommended that entrants focus on communicating one unique idea per registered entry and that the idea visually shows how it impacts the of the entirety of Market Street from Van Ness to the Embarcadero, even if the idea is smaller than that in scale or is a policy or strategy to promote such change. Competitors must use separate registrations to submit more than one idea.

Winning ideas will be shared online and in a public venue following the competition. They will also be featured at ULI’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco in November, when over 6,000+ leaders in real estate and land use will convene to share best practices.

Submissions are open to all, not just ULI members.

Entry Instructions:

1. The submission portal can be found here. If you do not have one already, you will be prompted to create a free ULI account before accessing the submission portal.
2. The ‘Manage Collaborators’ button in the top right can be used to allow team members to access and contribute to the submission.
3. All competition entrants will be prompted to share applicant information. This information will be kept anonymous and will not impact your entry into this competition.
   
4. All applicants will only be required to submit one graphic “panel” that concisely communicates the essence of your idea. Please share your panel in both of the following formats:
   1. A PDF file formatted for printing an exhibition panel at 24″ x 36″ with a maximum resolution of 300 DPI.
   2. A JPG file formatted for web viewing in an online gallery. Ensure that the file is less than 5 MB and has a maximum width of 2500 pixels.
5. Once applicants complete all fields, you will be prompted to pay the $75 application fee.
6. Applicants save their progress and return to the submission at any time through the submission portal.
7. After submitting, applicants may use the same link to submit another idea. There is no limit to the number of submissions.

If you do not have a ULI account, the registration link will redirect you to this page first.

After logging in or creating an account, you will be brought directly to the competition submission portal. The ‘Manage Collaborators’ button can be found on the top right. Competition entry instructions can be found on the left.

If you have already submitted or started an application, you will be directed to this page after logging into your ULI account. From here, you can review past submissions or being a new one.

Schedule:

Competition Opens: April 2, 2025

Competition Closes: June 1, 2025, at 11:59 PM PDT

Jurors Convene in San Francisco: July 2025; dates TBD

Awards Ceremony: July 2025; date TBD

Competition Winners Announced: July 2025; date TBD

Public Exhibition of Ideas: Summer 2025; date TBD

Winner Exhibition and Panel at ULI Fall Meeting at Moscone Center in San Francisco: November 4-6, 2025