Thursday, April 10 in Vancouver offered a full day of Building Healthy Places-related programming, and BHP sessions continued into Friday, including a morning networking opportunity at the Building Healthy Places Pop-Up Café. Read about, watch video, and download powerpoints (where available) from the below sessions that continued the conversation of how to build healthier places and communities.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Moderator John Silkey (left), Jeremy Hudson, Mark C. Edlen, and Marja Preston.

Building with Health in Mind: Real Deals Tell All

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 116/117
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Description: Hear from a diverse group of builders and developers as they discuss new approaches to integrating health and wellness into their active projects. Learn what works and what doesn’t. These real deals will illustrate how health can be intertwined through all aspects of real estate. They will share how building with health in mind delivers to the bottom line, while better serving the consumer and building community.

Moderator
John Silkey
Director, Milepost Consulting

Discussion Leaders
Mark C. Edlen [Download presentation]
Chief executive officer, Gerding Edlen Development Company
Jeremy Hudson [Download presentation]
Chief executive officer, Specialized Real Estate Group
Marja Preston [Download presentation]
President, Asani Development

Moderator Ronald A. Altoon (left), William Voegele, Elizabeth Shreeve, and Arno Matis.

Tying Cities Together: Using Civic Space to Increase Value and Build Community

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 114/115
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Description: The unintended consequences of post-war America urban sprawl was the negligent omission of civic space. To remedy this, place making applied as regenerative urban tissue and as centerpieces of ground up urban framework systems for suburban areas is an essential imperative of building healthy places. Why? Because it’s bankable, both at the micro-scale creating increased asset value, and at the macro-scale by building community.

Moderator
Ronald A. Altoon
Partner, Altoon Partners Architects

Discussion Leaders
Arno Matis [Download presentation]
Principal, Arno Matis Architecture
Elizabeth Shreeve [Download presentation]
Principal, SWA Group
William Voegele [Download presentation]
Vice president, development, Forest City

Discussion leader Sandra Kulli (left), moderator Maureen McAvey, Brian Povinelli, and Joe Rogoff.

Finding the Market for Health and Wellness: How Whole Foods and Westin Did It

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 114/115
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Description: A fundamental principle of successful real estate development is to make market-driven decisions, and that principle is particularly important for developers and investors who are looking at cutting-edge opportunities. ULI’s Building Healthy Places initiative is not based on a theoretical concept; it is an acknowledgement of a potentially profitable new market based on health and wellness. In this session, developers and investors who have successfully identified and responded to this market will share their knowledge and experience and lessons learned.

Read the Urban Land article
on this session here.

Moderator
Maureen McAvey
Senior resident fellow and Bucksbaum family chair for retail, Urban Land Institute

Discussion Leaders
Sandra Kulli [Download presentation]
President, Kulli Marketing
Brian Povinelli [Download presentation]
Senior vice president, global brand leader, Westin & Le Meridien, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Joe Rogoff [Download presentation]
Regional president, Pacific Northwest, Whole Foods Market

Moderator Kristin Neil Ryan (left), discussion leaders William J. Lenihan, Kathleen Matt, and Tom Byers.

Retrofitting for Healthy Living: Adaptive Reuse of the Outmoded and Obsolete

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 118/120
1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Description: From shuttered automobile manufacturing plants to outmoded office buildings, developers are engaging in innovative public-private partnerships to transform obsolete assets to meet the growing demand for healthier and health-related uses. This panel will present case studies of successful strategies for leveraging this demand and creating new value from underutilized assets.
Watch video from the session.

Read the Urban Land article
on this session here.

Moderator
Kristin Neil Ryan
Managing director, Jonathan Rose Companies

Discussion Leaders
Tom Byers [Download presentation]
Partner, Cedar River Group, LLC
William J. Lenihan [Download presentation]
Principal, Tevebaugh Associates
Kathleen Matt
Dean, College of Health Sciences and executive director, Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, University of Delaware

Making Spaces Work…Overtime

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 114/115
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Description: Public spaces are a key component of the tool kit for creating healthy places and done right create long-term value in the related real estate. Practitioners of programming, designing, building and activating public spaces will showcase a series of images and descriptions of great public spaces and present in detail several case studies. Their discussion will focus on how they have designed and activated spaces of varying scale to create value for multiple users.

Read the Urban Land article
on this session here.

Moderator
Michael L. Horst
Senior vice president, Larson Leadership Initiative, Urban Land Institute
Presenter
Edward T. McMahon [Download powerpoint]
Senior resident fellow, Charles E. Fraser chair for sustainable development, Urban Land Institute

Discussion Leaders
James P. Batchelor
President and chief executive officer, Arrowstreet
David P. Howerton [Download powerpoint]
Chairman, Hart Howerton
Richard T. Reinhard
Deputy executive director, Downtown DC Business Improvement District Corporation
Harriet Tregoning
Former director, Office of Planning, District of Columbia Government

Friday, April 11, 2014

Building Healthy Places Pop Up Café

Attendees at the Building Healthy Places Pop Up Cafe.

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 214
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Description: Please join us for coffee and a light breakfast to connect with colleagues who are working at the nexus of health and real estate. Hear from and meet the developers of three projects featured in ULI’s new report, Building for Wellness: the Business Case, which will be released in Vancouver:

• Marja Preston, Grow Community, Bainbridge Island, Washington
• Matt Griffin, Via6, Seattle, Washington
• Jeremy Hudson, Eco Modern Flats, Fayetteville, Arkansas

Discussion leaders Todd W. Lillibridge (left), Lauralee E. Martin, moderator Jeffrey H. Cooper, Kathryn E. West, and Mark Toothacre.

The Life Cycle of Medical Real Estate in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 114/115
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Description: Examine what distinguishes medical real estate value creation from that of other asset classes including its unique design, development, management and relationship to hospitals and the new integrated healthcare delivery models. Learn about the impact of the Affordable Care Act and how it will drive investment opportunities.

Moderator
Jeffrey H. Cooper
Chairman and executive managing director, Savills

Discussion Leaders
Todd W. Lillibridge
President and chief executive officer, Lillibridge Healthcare Services, Inc.
Lauralee E. Martin
President and chief executive officer, HCP
Mark Toothacre
President, Pacific Medical Buildings
Kathryn E. West
Vice president, real estate and facilities, Partners HealthCare System, Inc.

Moderator Toni Alexander (left), Richard A. Sonntag, Ed Romanowski, Greg Ashley, and Mick Matheusik.

Building Healthy Multi-Generational Resort Communities: Past, Present and Future

Vancouver Convention Centre West Building, Room 116/117
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Description: Learn inside stories from some of the resort industry’s most innovative and creative visionaries and developers on how they created successful trend setting projects throughout Canada, the U.S. and overseas, what they are doing next and why.

Despite the oversupply of many types of resorts, how are some projects being reinvented or developed to meet today’s multi-generational needs of the changing market? This interactive session will shed light on many of the myths and questions that resort and leisure based professionals have and what is needed to succeed in the years to come.

Moderators
Toni Alexander
President and creative director, InterCommunications, Inc.
Mick Matheusik
President, TREC International Inc and vice president, NAI Commercial

Discussion Leaders
Greg Ashley
Chief strategy officer, Replay Resorts
Ed Romanowski [Download powerpoint]
President and chief executive officer, Bellstar Hotels & Resorts
Richard A. Sonntag
Managing director, operations, Promontory