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9 Accommodate a grocery store

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Photo: Mark A. Steele Photography Inc.

Evidence Based Strategies

  • Provide space to accommodate a full-service grocery store, particularly in neighborhoods where there is unmet demand for healthy foods.

Best Practice Strategies

  • Check local zoning code requirements and industry standards to ensure that retail space meets minimum square footage, ground-floor ceiling height, glazing, and other specifications related to grocery stores. Prezone space for a grocery store where possible.

Peter Rummell

Principal, RummellMunz Partners
Jacksonville, Florida
 
  • Health is the new value add in real estate. Fifty years ago, developers figured out that sports added value to real estate. Thus were born fairways with housing lined up along them and tennis centers at the heart of resorts. Today, health and its various activities and amenities are going to do the same.
  • People will be attracted to places that help them be healthier, just as 40 years ago they were attracted to a view down a fairway. The difference is, in today’s vernacular, healthy living is driven by both hardware and software. Not only do you need to produce the fairway, you need to teach them how to use it.

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Acknowledgements

The Center for Active Design served as contributing author and expert content advisor for this project.
The project was supported by the Colorado Health Foundation, the estate of Melvin Simon, and the ULI Foundation.

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