Imagine a community — one that enables residents to walk, bike or take public transportation to go to the places they most frequently need to go every day, such as work, schools, grocery stores, shopping malls, parks and other public spaces, entertainment and recreational areas, and fitness and health facilities.  

We seek to create such communities. 

While the benefits of a healthy, sustainable community may be intuitively obvious to us, it is also supported by a number of studies.  According to a Swedish study, lifestyles affects life expectancy more than genetics.  In fact, professor emeritus Lars Wilhelmsen — one of the authors of the study — says: “It is often assumed that people with parents who lived to be very old are more likely to live to a grand old age themselves. But that’s just not true —our study shows that hereditary factors don’t play a role and that lifestyle has the biggest impact.”