Awards for Excellence

The next Awards for Excellence will be held in Fall of 2023!

The Awards for Excellence Program is intended to be the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts in North Florida to identify and promote best practices in all types of real estate development. The awards recognize the full development process of a project: planning, construction, economic viability and management as well as design. The awards are competitively based and open to real estate developments and projects from around North Florida. Qualified submissions will be reviewed by a panel of independent judges from the local and national development community.

Visionary Leader 2021

Ed Burr is President and Chief Executive Officer of GreenPointe Holdings, LLC, a diversified holding company that brings together the necessary disciplines to create sustainable, high-value communities throughout the Southeastern United States. Burr is widely considered a leader in the real estate industry for his ability to analyze real estate potential and to lead companies that create unparalleled communities known for their recreational, residential and commercial value.

Prior to leading GreenPointe Holdings, Burr founded the LandMar Group LLC in 1987 and led the company’s creation of master-planned, award-winning communities in Florida and coastal Georgia. Burr’s career started as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand working in Miami and New York City. Burr also founded Hampton Golf & Lifestyles Management with former PGA of America President M.G. Orender in 1998 to develop and manage golf courses and community recreational facilities across the country.

Throughout his career, Burr has been actively involved in business, civic and community organizations. He has served as Chairman of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, Jacksonville Civic Council and Jacksonville Country Day School. He currently serves on the Board of the Florida Council of 100 and has served as Chairman of The Board of Trustees for Florida State University since 2014.

Actively involved in several national and regional development organizations, he is a past board member of the Northeast Florida Builders Association, a full member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a founding member of the ULI Center for Leadership.

Burr founded The Monique Burr Foundation for Children, Inc. (MBF) in 1997 to continue the work of his late wife, Monique Burr, a devoted child advocate. MBF is a nonprofit organization based in Jacksonville, Florida dedicated to providing the best prevention of abuse, bullying, human trafficking, and digital safety education programs to protect children and teens from victimization. To date, MBF Prevention Education Programs have been provided to over 4.5 million children/teens in Florida and have trained more than 5,000 adult facilitators in the United States. MBF Programs are implemented in 27 states, Washington DC and 3 additional countries.

ULI North Florida awards a Visionary Leader based on the following criteria:

The candidate must be an individual leader who has made a difference in “Place Making” for our community (anywhere in the North Florida District Council region)
The candidate must be a recognized leader, either public official or private sector leader, who has championed Best Practice principles in development or land use. The candidate does not have to be a member of ULI, but always preferred.
The candidate must have demonstrated multi-year, sustained leadership efforts for development in a targeted area such as downtown, open space and/or marketplace.