Wellness real estate has grown into a genuinely massive category as a result – the sector reached roughly $876 billion in value with 23.6% average annual growth since 2019, nearly double the pace of the next-fastest wellness segment. This shift is also reshaping fitness real estate, as developers increasingly favor projects that bring complementary wellness businesses together instead of relying on a single anchor tenant. A single fitness tenant used to be enough to anchor a development. Wellness businesses also tend to stretch customer dwell time in ways that ripple outward. The wellness real estate market is expected to keep climbing toward $1.8 trillion by 2030, which means this isn’t a passing design trend developers can wait out.