{"id":23268,"date":"2021-05-25T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalwellnessinstitute.org\/?page_id=23268"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:26:14","slug":"wellness-communities-and-real-estate-sector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalwellnessinstitute.org\/press-room\/press-releases\/wellness-communities-and-real-estate-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"New Initiative Focused on the Booming Wellness Communities & Real Estate Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Contact: Beth McGroarty
\nbeth.mcgroarty@globalwellnessinstitute.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 +1.213.300.0107<\/p>\n

Global Wellness Institute (GWI) Announces the Formation of a New Initiative Focused on the Booming Wellness Communities & Real Estate Sector <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Initiative to expand on GWI\u2019s landmark \u201cBuild Well to Live Well\u201d report and will explore the myriad of ways wellness is being embedded into every aspect of our living spaces and what this means for future real estate developments<\/em><\/p>\n

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Miami, FL \u2013 May 26, 2021 <\/strong>\u2013 The nonprofit Global Wellness Institute (GWI), the leading research and educational resource for the global wellness industry, welcomes a new Initiative to its fold: Wellness Communities & Real Estate. Joining 30+ industry-specific collaborative groups<\/a> hosted by GWI to further the international conversation about wellness in its many and varied forms, this Initiative serves to further the insights found in GWI\u2019s 2018 landmark \u201cBuild Well to Live Well\u201d research<\/a>, the first-ever in-depth study on the booming wellness communities and real estate sector. That research valued the market at $134 billion in 2017 and predicted 6% YOY growth through 2022 ($180 billion), a number that researchers anticipate will be higher thanks to the new laser-focus on health and wellness in every aspect of our post-pandemic lives.<\/p>\n

The Initiative, which aims to quantify how both health and quality of life can be optimized by intentionally creating built environments that are proactively designed to support the holistic health of those who live, work, play and learn there, is co-chaired by two leaders in wellness communities and real estate: Helen Foster and Teri Slavik-Tsuyuki.<\/p>\n

Foster runs Foster Strategy, which counts notable wellness community developers in the US as clients, including Willow Valley Communities, a 55+ senior living community in Pennsylvania and Rancho Mission Viejo, a southern California-based wellness community of 3,500 homes and growing. While Slavik-Tsuyuki is one of the architects behind the\u00a0America At Home Study<\/a>, which surveyed US consumer sentiment about design, health and wellness in homes and communities as a result of the pandemic and was named \u201cone of the most influential women in homebuilding\u201d by\u00a0BUILDER Magazine<\/em>. As founder of tst ink, Slavik-Tsuyuki works with community developers, homebuilders and entrepreneurs to create innovative spaces that allow people to live their best lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs neighborhoods and communities became more central to our daily lives during COVID\u2014and will likely continue to be where we spend most of our time\u2014more of us are aware that health and wellness outcomes are a direct result of the environments where we live, work and play,\u201d said Co-Chairs Foster and Slavik-Tsuyuki. \u201cUnderstanding how homes and neighborhoods can increase personal wellness is key to GWI\u2019s mission of empowering wellness worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative\u2019s key goals include:<\/p>\n