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Healthfields: Transforming Community Health through Brownfields Redevelopment
The Phoenix B2H Project
EPA Western Brownfields WorkshopSeptember 29, 2016
Health ≠ Healthcare
* Dr. Doug Jutte, Executive Director, Build Healthy Places Network
Definition of HealthHealth is a state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
* Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946.
Our zip code is more important to our health than our genetic code.
From 1890 to 1990, life expectancy in the U.S. increased by 30 years.
Only 5 years can be linked to better medical care.* Farley, T., & Cohen, D. Prescription for a Health Nation: A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World. (2006)
• Safe neighborhoods• Places to be physically active• Affordable, healthy homes• Transportation options• Fresh food retail options• Social connections
Health Starts Where You Live, Work and Play
Today’s Health Challenge: Obesity
Charlotte’s Light Rail Users:
Lost 6 pounds
Reduced obesity risk by 81%
*MacDonald, J., Stokes, R., Cohen, D., Kofner, A. Ridgeway, G. The Effect of Light Rail Transit on Body Mass Index and Physical Activity. American Journal of Preventative Medicine. (2010) 39(2): 105–112.
Creating Transportation Options
Providing Access to Healthy Food
Integrating Brownfields and Health
Success to Date:$304 million in private investment 285 acres of previously contaminated land restored 3,300 jobs created or maintained
Metro North Corporate Park
5th Street & Buckeye Project
Phoenix Brownfields Funding
2000 Capital Improvement Bond Program includes $3.4 million Acquisition, investigation and cleanup for city projects only
2006 Capital Improvement Bond Program includes $4 million $2 million for grants to private sector
o Development fees, public infrastructure improvements, remediation in areas of public infrastructure
$2 million for city projects
Environmental Job Training$200,000 EPA Brownfields Job Training Grant 41 participants trained51% Job Placement Rate
Del Rio Area Brownfields Planning Project$175,000 EPA Area-Wide
Planning grantRio Salado to Broadway,
7th Ave. to 16th St.Focused on 3 sites 80 acre former sand/gravel 10 acre former industrial 90 acre former landfill
Community-based brownfields land use plan
Adopted in 2015 PlanPHX