Housing Opportunity 2014 - Healthy Communities through Healthy Policy--A State and Local Perspective, James Alexander
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Healthfields are redeveloped areas focused on healthcare services that can drive economic growth. A case study from Tampa, Florida showed how redeveloping an area in East Tampa into a "healthfield" centered around a new medical campus and health services generated new jobs and businesses, helping revitalize the long-struggling neighborhood through a smart growth redevelopment strategy.
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Housing Opportunity 2014 - Healthy Communities through Healthy Policy--A State and Local Perspective, James Alexander
- 1. Healthfields: New Resources for Redevelopment 2014 ULI Housing Opportunity Conference Denver, CO May 16, 2014
- 2. What is a healthfield?
- 4. What is a healthfield?
- 6. Tampa, FL
- 10. Smart Growth America is the only national organization dedicated to researching, advocating for and leading coalitions to bring smart growth practices to more communities nationwide. www.smartgrowthamerica.org 1707 L St. NW Suite 1050, Washington, DC 20036 | 202-207-3355
Editor's Notes
- Introduction – SGA (LOCUS, LLC, Brownfields Coaltion). Advocacy, policy development and technical assistance to make it easier to build places that are smart, sustainable, equitable, livable, healthy and resilient. Equity is central
- Vacant, abandoned, brownfield sites redeveloped with new uses that serve the health needs of the neighborhood’s residents - Abandoned gas station becomes a community clinic
- Abandoned laundry along a stream in Lawrence, MA becomes a park and community garden
- Old landfill becomes a drainage pond that incorporates play equipment, lighting, and a walking path
- WHY? Healthfields Health Disparities – Zip codes with higher poverty rates often have both lack of health facilities and wealth of vacant brownfield sites. Turning brownfields into an asset for redevelopment – can thepublic money we invest in brownfield clean-up and marketing serve us better if it increases access to care, healthy food, safe recreation, community support networks? Bringing health resources – clinics, state and federal funding for healthy infrastructure – to the table Mobilizing community residents to make things happen
- East Tampa Community Redevelopment Area Brownfield Assessment grant
- Ed Johnson, CRA Manager Sophisticated economic development professional focused on creating a better environment for the private sector 1. Belmont Heights Estates: HOPE VI completed 2006 (1997 grant) 2. Encore District – 28 acre Central Park neighborhood. Choice Neighborhood grant
- Grocery stores – new or renovated Public safety – police district station Health clinic – Tampa Family Health Parks – Robert Cole Lake Complete streets – bikeways and traffic calming in core of 22nd Ave Grocery store and attached retail – DESIRED, but not an easy deal to make. WHO LEADS? Non-profit clinics seeking out brownfields to redevelop State regulators with a backlog of sites to unload City, county and regional economic development officials Resident-led organizations – Community Redevelopment Authority in E. Tampa, Groundworks Trusts