Rancho Sahuarita Featured on Realtor.com

Excerpted from “Green Homes Are So 2010: The Future Is Wellness Communities,” which originally appeared on Realtor.com. View the full Realtor.com article here.

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Arizona is usually associated with retirees and spa retreats, not millennials. So when developers planned Rancho Sahuarita with the intent to draw young families looking for a healthy lifestyle, surely there were skeptics. But this 3,000-acre community—with its 17 miles of bike paths and 15-acre lake, just 9 miles south of Tucson—has become a destination for concerts, art fairs, triathlons, and festivals. Homeowners can take yoga, tennis, ballet, or more than 50 other classes a week at the community clubhouse, which provides babysitting. Best of all, they’re all covered by monthly homeowner association dues of $93 per house.

To ensure wellness, Rancho Sahuarita partnered with Carondelet Health Network to operate a primary- and urgent-care facility within the development. Through Carondelet, local doctors offer “Walk with a Doc” and “Lunch and Learn” programs, which allow residents to ask questions they may not feel comfortable asking in a sterile doctor’s office.

Kids are a focus, too. There’s a “walking school bus” providing kids and parents the opportunity to walk everyday to the six on-site schools, and a “Be Well” summer camp offered by Carondelet. All of which has helped make Rancho Sahuarita one of the best-selling master-planned communities in the country, according to the ULI report. Home prices range from $220,000 to $350,000.

View the full Realtor.com article, “Green Homes Are So 2010: The Future Is Wellness Communities,” here.