Building Healthy Places Initiative
A city renowned for its vibrant culture and sweeping coastal skyscrapers, Miami set the stage for this year’s ULI Health Leaders Network Introductory Forum. Spanning the course of three days, Cohort 8 learned from local practitioners and explored the various ways in which the city marries real estate and land use with health and social equity. The Health Leaders toured historical and contemporary neighborhoods, provoking thoughtful discussion on how Miami development compared to their own local contexts.
Amblebrook, an innovative retirement community in the historic setting of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was specifically designed to remedy this social disease. It shatters the mold of the conventional 55-plus community.
The Veterans Community Project serves any veteran who took the oath to defend the Constitution, regardless of discharge status, length of service, or branch of service. The program strikes an effective balance between community and individual dignity, employing a robust combination of housing and services. As a result, the program has a high success rate of 85 percent in transitioning unhoused veterans to permanent housing.
ULI Trustee Colleen Carey aims to build a health-focused community in Lyndale Gardens in Richfield, a growing suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her firm has ambitious plans to build public-facing infrastructure to serve all Richfield residents, not merely the development’s future tenants. These amenities include an amphitheater, walking trails, public plazas and a children’s splash pad, as well as farmers market and community meeting space.
Are you a developer of a master-planned community responding to market demand for walkable and bike-friendly neighborhoods? An architect whose portfolio includes university campuses or mixed-use retail development with millennials in mind? A property manager tasked with ensuring tenant satisfaction and long-term leases? If so, then ULI’s new Building Healthy Places Toolkit has a wealth of ideas for you.
