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The Urban Land Institute (ULI) said it has selected 11 developments as finalists in its Awards for Excellence competition for the EMEA region. The 2009 finalists were selected from 39 entries from 17 countries. The winners of the competition will be announced on 27 May at ULI's Trends Conference in Vienna, Austria.

The Awards for Excellence are conferred on outstanding real estate developments in all sectors, ranging from office, residential, recreational, urban/mixed-use, industrial/office park, commercial/retail, new community, rehabilitation to public projects and programmes. Criteria for the awards include leadership, contribution to the community, innovations, public/private partnership, environmental protection and enhancement, response to societal needs, and financial viability.

The 11 finalists (developers in parentheses) are:

1. Akaretler Row Houses / W Hotel, (Akaretler Turizm Yatirimlari), Istanbul, Turkey
2. American University in Cairo New Campus, (AUC), Cairo, Egypt
3. Barrow Street, (Fabrizia Developments), Dublin, Ireland
4. Cabot Circus, (Bristol Alliance, a joint venture between Land Securities and Hammerson), Bristol, UK
5. Dickens Heath Village Centre, (Parkridge Holdings), Solihull, UK
6. Elm Park, (Radora Developments Ltd), Dublin, Ireland
7. Eos Generali, (Bouygues Immobilier), Paris, France
8. Hilton Tower, (The Beetham Organization), Manchester, UK
9. Leoben Judicial Complex, (BIG-Services, Immobilienmanagementgesellschaft des Bundes mbH), Leoben, Austria
10. Liverpool One, (Grosvenor), Liverpool, UK
11. Mountain Dwellings, (Hoepfner and Danish Oil Company), Copenhagen, Denmark

ULI's Awards for Excellence programme was set up in the US in 1979. A European (now EMEA) competition was added in 2004, followed by the ULI Awards for Excellence Asia Pacific and the Global Awards in 2005.