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Mike Ratliff, Senior Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

\"NAREE_Health<\/a>

L to R: Rachel MacCleery, ULI; Tim Bryant, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (moderator); James Vick, SWA Group.)<\/p><\/div>\n

While developers have recently focused on creating a built environment that is healthy to our planet with energy efficiencies and sustainable building materials, the next generation of communities will also focus on the health of the end user.<\/p>\n

A discussion on Wednesday at the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) Spring Conference in Houston highlighted why creating happy and healthy spaces can also help keep a cheery bottom line.<\/p>\n

The reasoning behind a demand for healthier spaces is all too apparent. For the first time in history, American children might have a shorter lifespan than their parents, said Rachel MacCleery, senior vice president at ULI. We are in the middle of a health crisis where one third of the adult U.S. population is technically obese with a BMI of 30 or greater. Back in 1970 only one in eight adults would fall under the stigma. A large contributing factor is how we have built space.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have designed physical activity out of our lives,\u201d said MacCleery, as a slide of an escalator leading up to a gym appeared on her presentation. \u201cRather than make health the easy choice, we make it the hard one.\u201d<\/p>\n

But according to ULI research, making health an easy choice is fairly simple and cost effective. The organization profiled 13 projects that put an emphasis on health in a report titled Building for Wellness: The Business Case<\/a>. (We actually caught up with Anita Kramer<\/a>, project director and author of the wellness report at ULI\u2019s Spring meeting Vancouver.)<\/p>\n

The big takeaway was that buildings with features like clean indoor air, social engagement and fitness elements elicit a strong response from the market with faster sales and lease ups.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople want places that are good for them, and feel good to live in,\u201d MacCleery added. \u201cThere is value to be gained by developers, the industry and the country as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t just buildings that can make a city a healthier place. Infrastructure plays a huge role, and James Vick, a principal of SWA Group, presented a case study that was taking place right in Houston with a bayou restoration program.<\/p>\n

There are 12 bayous that connect the city, and had historically served in both recreation and transit. Over time, the bayous predominantly came to serve as a way to mitigate flood water. By the 1950s the majority of the system had been given concrete walls to improve its new function.<\/p>\n

Today a program known as Bayou Greenways<\/a> is taking a 1912 plan to use the bayou system as the \u2018backbone of an equitable, accessible\u2019 park system into fruition. The $215 milling public-private initiative is well underway to open 300 miles of space that will reconnect the city to its bayous.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it is no more of a cost than putting in a 10 foot-wide trail to invite people back to the bayou,\u201d Vick said. \u201cThat\u2019s all it takes to create a new set of experiences for the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Houston locals are definitely embracing the plan, as Vick\u2019s contractors are telling him that people are trying to use the paths before the concrete is even dry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is just an inherent need for use to reconnect to the natural beauty of the bayou, and we really should have built this 100 years ago,\u201d Vick concluded.<\/p>\n

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