Aspen Club Living

The Aspen Club is proposing to establish a healthy living community that will be an internationally renowned model for sustainable, healthy living development. This is a program that pays tribute to the longstanding "Aspen Idea," as a place where people can develop in mind, body and spirit, as well as matching with and promoting Aspen's Canary Initiative, the Aspen Area Community Plan and the Civic Master Plan. For over thirty years, the Aspen Club and Spa has been recognized as the best health facility in Aspen. Today the Club has more than 1900 members, over 200 employees, and thousands of monthly physical therapy, sports performance, spa, and salon clients. With the development of the project described below, the Aspen Club will become a model for healthy living communities around with world as well as remaining a viable business that continues to serve the needs of Aspen locals.

The Aspen Club recognizes that healthy living extends beyond the traditional practices of exercise and nutrition. The Aspen Club believes that a healthy lifestyle encompasses the external environment, the buildings we live in, and our relationship with our neighbors. We have accordingly extended out our concept for Aspen Club Living.

Aspen Club Living is an integrated approach to sustainable healthy living development. We are excited to have just been accepted to be part of the prestigious new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED - ND) pilot program, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council in partnership with the Congress for New Urbanism and the National Resources Defense Council. LEED for Neighborhood Development is a rigorous, third party reviewed, rating system that integrates the principles of smart growth, new urbanism, and green building in to the first national standard for neighborhood design.

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The redevelopment of the Aspen Club aims to demonstrate what defines a healthy neighborhood and a healthy lifestyle. In this regard, it is an ideal fit with the goals of LEED for Neighborhood Development and for Aspen. In changing from a day use health club into an integrated healthy neighborhood with the Aspen Club, residential units and other mixed use opportunities, our goal is to provide a sustainable environment for a healthy life. Like the Duke Center for Living, Canyon Ranch, and the Cooper Clinic, the Aspen Club can and will become a nationally renowned community responsible for defining the concept of total wellness.

We have devoted the past six months to talking to neighbors, to members and to employees to better understand how they view the Club and how this project can be a benefit for our entire community. We feel we now have the support of the majority of our neighbors in addition to the existing support of our employees and members. Through this process our goal is to design an exceptional plan that will better serve our community, our members and our employees. This project does just that.