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Creating places where people, nature, and investment can thrive together. 

The vision is yours. We bring together the strategy and the expertise to maximize its value.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The places we shape are overlooked drivers of health. 

The decisions that most affect how a place shapes people are made early: where to build, what to build, and how it meets the land. Yet health and ecology rarely sit at the table with cost, schedule, and return, so their value goes uncounted.

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Origin of Well works at that early stage. We help owners and project teams read the land, understand the people it will serve, and set a strategy that strengthens human health, ecological health, and long-term value, from first concept through occupancy.

​"When we design the environment well, human life rises naturally within it."

THE METHOD

We integrate what the market continues to treat as separate. 

Our work moves through three connected disciplines. Each brings the right expertise and evidence into the decision at hand, so what gets built, how it gets built, and how its value is measured stay aligned.

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Development Strategy

Team Formation & Alignment

Capital Structure

Site Feasibility

Program Definition

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Wellness Integration

Environmental Design

Neuroscience of Place

Social Connection

Programming & Ritual

Operator Alignment

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Outcomes Orchestration

Value Creation

Performance Metrics

Long-term Stewardship

THE APPROACH

For those ready to build something that lasts. 

Origin of Well begins every project with a question: What is the life you want to create here?

Origin of Well works alongside landowners, organizations, investors, and project teams to realize the potential of their places, and pursues select development opportunities of its own.

MISSION

Origin of Well treats place and nature as inputs and human health as an outcome, and builds both into the business case before design begins.

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EXPERIENCE

A foundation built across disciplines. 

Over 22 years of leadership in development, design, and sustainability inform the perspective and expertise behind Origin of Well. 

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Julie Somarriba, MBA

Founder & Principal Advisor

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
 SUSTAINABILITY & WELLNESS
CAPITAL PROGRAMS
DELIVERY ADVISORY

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

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