During a session at the ULI Fall Meeting last week, panelists involved in the ULI Healthy Corridors project discussed strategies for transforming unsafe, unattractive, and poorly connected commercial corridors into thriving places that further the goal of creating healthy and economically vibrant communities.

“Auto-centric commercial corridors make it challenging to walk or bike or access healthy food,” said moderator Rachel MacCleery, a ULI senior vice president who leads the Building Healthy Places Initiative. “The majority of pedestrian deaths in the U.S. occur along corridors such as this. Every community has them.” Many of these communities, she noted, are in low-income areas with minority populations. The Healthy Corridors project is working to inspire action to improve such corridors across the country.

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