Main Entrance Amenities

Amenities at main building entrances help create pedestrian-focused sidewalks and streetscapes that increase opportunities for regular physical activity, promote social interaction, and can support equity for vulnerable populations.

Key Terms

• A Main Building Entrance is the primary entry point (s) that most pedestrians are anticipated to use, opens internally to the building's lobby or principal ground-level circulation space, and opens externally to the most heavily trafficked pedestrian right of way. Entrances from parking garages are not included.
• Wayfinding is the process of orienting users to their location within a set environment. Wayfinding most often utilizes navigational signage or directional signage to cue users to their surroundings, providing distances, destinations, and other helpful information to help aid and ease traversing a site.

For full strategy and documentation requirements, please refer to the digital scorecard made available on the Fitwel Platform. 

Strategy Insights

• Sidewalk amenities must be level with the main building entrance floor level.
• This strategy requires at least two qualifying sidewalk amenities at ALL main entrances. A project with two or more main entrances must make note of all main entrance locations, all relevant correlating sidewalk amenities, and all walking distances.
• Sidewalk amenities must be accessible to the general public. Amenities located indoors (in a lobby), behind a gated private area, or requiring a purchase (such as at a cafe) cannot qualify.
• Ledges that are connected to a planter or a similar design must be intended to serve as seating (e.g., its width must allow for comfortable seating); regular planters and window ledges cannot double as seating.
• “Parklets” are converted parking spaces that are reallocated for pedestrian and public use and include furnishings such as seating, benches, tables, planters, etc.
• Basic street signage cannot qualify as wayfinding.

Documentation Guidance

• When showing an amenity that is designed to double as seating (e.g., a seating feature attached to a planter), include plentiful annotated photographs to confirm that the amenity is intended to be used for seating.
• When showing public art that is not located directly on the sidewalk, include plentiful annotated photographs to confirm that the public art is visible from and intended to be seen from the public sidewalk. 
• The walking distances of 100 feet / 30 meters or less must be measured walking distances of the outdoor space, from the main building entrance(s) and along the sidewalk route. Walking distances that cut through building interiors do not qualify.

Sample Documentation

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