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