These are some can’t-miss programs relating to health at ULI’s upcoming 2017 Spring Meeting in Seattle, Washington from May 2-4.

May 2, 2017 (Tuesday)

Building Healthy Places Interest Forum
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Forum; Limited Capacity; Email [email protected] for more information
This fifth biannual forum features tours, panel discussions and presentations with a focus on health, housing, and stormwater. The ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative, ULI Center for Sustainability and ULI member leaders, are jointly hosting this convening which is open to ULI’s Full and Associate members.

Building Healthy Places and Center for Sustainability Reception
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Reception; By Invitation Only
Email [email protected] for more information

Tours

ULI Creative Placemaking: Self‐Guided Tour of Seattle
Self-Guided Tour on Google Maps and the Spring Meeting App
Highlights: Creative Placemaking
Learn about the context of development for Creative Placemaking, the integration of arts and culture in community revitalization, with our self-guided tour of 19 diverse and innovative sites in Seattle (12 in the city center, and 7 in the surrounding neighborhoods). Click on each pin on the interactive map or open the PDF booklet to learn about public transportation, history, photos and resources of each tour location. Email [email protected] with your comments and suggestions.

Tacoma: City of Destiny
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Tour; Separate Ticket Required
Highlights: Creative Placemaking; Healthy Corridors; Active Transportation; Stormwater Management
With a vacancy-to-vitality mind-set, the City of Tacoma is channeling growth and supporting development through artistic adaptive re-use projects, a pedestrian-friendly downtown core, an expanding light rail and innovative stormwater management.

Pioneer Square: Still a Work in Progress
11:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Tour; Separate Ticket Required
Highlight: Creative Placemaking
Pioneer Square offers a rich layering of history, innovation, and reinvention, weaving Native American culture with architectural heritage, legacy, and new global commerce into a robust cultural scene that also hosts professional sports and the community’s social services. 

Continuity and Change: Seattle’s Capitol Hill Story
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Tour; Separate Ticket Required
Highlights: Creative Placemaking
“The Hill” offers breweries and bars, some of the best coffee roasters in the city, interesting local shops and features 2016 Global Awards finalist, Chophouse Row, an adaptive re-use of a former auto parts store and parking lot into a mixed-use housing development.

Transit + Housing Innovation = Remaking Neighborhoods
8:15 AM – 4:30 PM
Tour; Separate Ticket Required
Highlights: Healthy, Affordable Housing; Creative Placemaking
Retrace Seattle’s legacy of streetcar suburbs on modern light rail where new transit options leverage residential choices, addressing explosive growth, economic, and social shifts. This tour features 12th Avenue Arts, artist housing built on city land and a 2015 ULI Global Award for Excellence Winner.

Island Time: Bainbridge by Ferry
9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Tour; Separate Ticket Required
Highlights: Food and Real Estate; Creative Placemaking
Bainbridge Island is a leader in sustainable development, home to the carbon-neutral Grow Community (profiled in ULI’s Building Healthy Places Toolkit), the geothermal and solar-powered Bainbridge Art Museum, the redesigned streetscapes of Winslow and the scenic skyline of Puget Sound.

May 3, 2017 (Wednesday)

Pike Place Market and the Waterfront: Reinvesting in Connections
7:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Tour; Separate Ticket Required
Highlights: Active Transportation
Waterfront Seattle, a $3.1 billion redevelopment of the Alaskan Way viaduct, will reconnect downtown Seattle neighborhoods with the city’s central waterfront through a series of pedestrian and bicycle-friendly projects, including: Pike Place Market’s MarketFront, a salmon-friendly Seawall and the Seattle Aquarium’s upcoming Ocean Pavilion. 

Healthy Corridors Stakeholders Breakfast
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Sheraton Hotel, Aspen Meeting Room; By Invitation Only
Highlights: Healthy Corridors
A networking breakfast for current and past stakeholders involved with the ULI Healthy Corridor Project, and the corridors engaged with the Creative Placemaking project.

Health Leaders Network Information Session
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Convention Center, Room 205; Open to all
Highlights: Healthy Corridors; Active Transportation; Food and Real Estate
Learn about the ULI Health Leaders Network, a new ULI professional development program which will empower participants to incorporate health into real estate and planning decisions through development and design strategies.

Creative Placemaking Lunch
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Convention Center, Room 304; By Invitation Only
Highlights: Creative Placemaking
Learn about Creative Placemaking and network with others who are undertaking Creative Placemaking efforts.

The Housing Paradox: Why Can’t We Build Enough Housing to Match Job Growth?
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Highlight: Healthy, Affordable Housing
Join our cross-sector panel as we discuss strategies and opportunities to address skyrocketing rents and housing prices that exacerbate regional inequality, feel unaffordable even to highly paid new workers, and strain transportation networks.

Thursday, May 4, 2017

The Silicon Valley of Saving the World
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Seattle Children’s Research Institute; Separate Ticket Required
Find out how an urban global health campus produces ground-breaking innovations with global and local impact through key players like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and the Center for Infectious Disease Research.

Transformation of the Waterfront and the Renovated Pike Place Market
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Hard Rock Café Seattle; Separate Ticket Required
Learn how diverse partners are working together to implement a vision for the waterfront after the removal of the Alaskan Way viaduct, that will re-knit the fabric of the city and create a stunning new public realm.

Pioneer Square Art Walk & Pub Crawl
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Tour; Separate Ticket Required
Highlight: Creative Placemaking
Experience the nation’s first art walk, First Thursdays in Pioneer Square, with a self-guided tour of local galleries, shops, restaurants, the country’s largest collection of Richardsonian Romanesque historic buildings and a game of Duffleboard, a Seattle hybrid of mini-golf and shuffleboard.

New Project Profiles

Read new Building Healthy Places profiles of projects in Seattle, High Point and Via6.