What if wellness was as easy as walking down the front door of your home? Home gyms are more than just yoga mats and some weights, but what if they’re a full gym, sauna, or cold plunge? What if you knew that your neighbors also pursue a healthy lifestyle?
These visions are built by Bellvale Park City, combining the best design and innovations of a residential community aimed at attracting wellness enthusiasts on the slopes of the new Deer Valley Resort East Village Base Area.
In late February, the group held an event in honor of the completion of two model homes, as well as the completion of Solace and R1, making it a dream celebration.
It was a collaboration, a major mission of Muggleby development partners Chad Muggleby and Jason Rickers, and with support from Caller Wellness and AI massage company Escape, we found ways to incorporate wellness into our home.
“Building it inside the house is something you don’t see. No one else did,” Rickards said. “We come from the Muggleby heritage. Muggleby’s homes are some of the best custom homes. And we all have the background to its construction.”
Muggleby said that when it comes to design, a construction element of Bellvale, it follows the principles of recreational real estate, the ability to hike, bike and ski just outside the house, but it also depends on the idea of the house as a sanctuary.
In addition to the Belvale Wellness Centre and Adventure Centre, each Velvale 115 residences will be built in their own sanctuary space, designated areas for wellness activities, if each buyer has the meaning. This is because they believe wellness is inherently individual, said Ariana Smies, senior project engineer at Kohler.
“Not everyone has the same kind of wellness routine,” she said. “Having spaces that can cater to the meaning of wellness means that everyone can recharge a little more effectively because they have a different definition of wellness.”
Each house has a steam shower, sauna and cold plunge tub. Each one is a cutting-edge Caller Wellness product. The rest of the room can then be designed on request.
It was important to make the sanctuary space customizable, as each person’s health goals and needs differed. For example, Smies said when it comes to strength building, individuals may avoid using ice baths right after training. But if someone wants to build a mental fortitude, an ice bath is the perfect way to pass the natural limits of your brain.
Some, like Johnny Moseley, are American freestyle skiers and Olympic gold medalists who made history at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, and their strict routines using saunas and cold plunges, deliver performance and peak recovery.
Velvære’s philosophy coincides with the needs of the most elite athletes for everyday people seeking to live a healthier lifestyle, Moseley said. That’s what drew him to the project in the end.
“When you’re competing as a big-name skier, there’s a lot of routines and rituals that come with getting there,” he said. “In some ways, I see this a bit like a mini Olympic training centre. You have an environment, a community. And sticking to your goals, and sticking to this routine is about the other people you are around, the community you surround yourself.”
Like the Olympic Training Center, the Velvære community is designed to bring together like-minded people.
“We now feel that wellness is something that people can connect with around us,” Rickards said. “Through these connections, it’s not only physically beneficial, it’s mentally, emotionally and psychologically.”
It also helps you to not only head for applet drinks after skiing days, but also to be pursuing the same goals that you can say, “Let’s have contrast therapy treatment,” Moseley said.
Concentrating these services at home is also a way to remove barriers to success.
“People just go home, they do their things, then they go and do their activities,” Rickards said. “If you want to go for cold memories, you have to go to one place. If you want to get a massage, you have to go for another massage. There was no community based on that.”
He said he thought Park City was one of the few towns that embraced the concept, and that he thought of other ski towns like Big Sky and Aspen in Montana.
The elements of mental health reach thoughtfully designed spaces that rely on organic, natural-centric materials. After all, it’s a luxury and being in a great space makes a difference, Smease said.
Organic materials are chosen for furniture, cabinets, surfaces, and fully furniture interior fabrics. We also prioritized natural shapes, round corners on the countertops, natural edgewood tables and supplies.
“It’s meant to make you feel unconsciously in nature,” Rickards said.
They tried to think about what was behind the wall, and Muggleby said it included air purifiers, water filters, circadian rhythm lighting and more organic building materials.
“80% of the ways you get sick are the function of your home or work environment,” he said. “What can we do to make these environments better? That’s what Velvære does.”
The price of the 68 pair home is $52.25 million for nine unique floor plans (3-5 bedrooms, up to 5 bathrooms, totaling 3,089-5,505 square feet). These homes are currently available for purchase. Additionally, in addition to ski-accessible property lots ranging from 0.29 to 3.3 acres, buyers bring their own builders and build on their own timelines.
In the future, there will be 12 three-bedroom, three-bathroom chalet-style cabins across from the planned wellness centre.
Model Home tours can be scheduled on the website velvaereparkcity.com.
Smees said he hopes that the concept of Bellbert will inspire similar community thinking that requires work for wellness, but that could be fun too.
“To be more aware of the decisions you make in your daily life and to be more intentional about how you live your life, something I think I overlook a lot,” she said.
Muggleby said for him it was ultimately a pursuit of longevity:
“We all want to be as active as possible. …I really believe that the environment in which we place ourselves every day will help us promote our ability to age well.”
