August 23, 2013 • MISSISSIPPI BUSINESS JOURNAL • www.msbusiness.com
AN MBJ FOCUS:
CONSTRUCTION
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The fitness facility is designed to help people who need rehabilitation, including athletes, but will also provide opportunities for sports and fitness activities.
Madison Healthplex eyes winter opening » Center will provide upscale fitness facility options, as well as medical office clinics By BECKY GILLETTE I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com
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HEN THE NEW, $16-million Madison Healthplex Performance Training Center opens late this year or early in 2014, there is going to be more than a little something for everyone. There will be everything you would find in an upscale fitness facility, or even most college sports performance training complexes and medical office clinics, as well. The facility will be designed to help people who need rehabilitation, including athletes, but will also provide opportunities for sports and fitness activities for the entire family from children to elders and for amateur, high school, college and even professional athletes. The 96,000-square-foot facility currently under construction is a partnership and joint project of Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center and
Baptist Health Systems. “A partnership like this between Baptist and Mississippi Sports Medicine will create a facility offering services unlike any other offered in this market,” said Baptist Health Systems president and CEO Mark Slyter. Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler couldn’t be more jazzed about the new offering coming to Madison. “This is an exciting time in the history of Madison,” Butler said. “This is only the beginning. Madison will one day be the area of specialized medicine for the state of Mississippi." “We at Mississippi Sports Medicine are excited about this project,” said Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center Administrator Robert Lodes. “This facility is unique to the state of Special to the Mississippi Business Journal
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About 20,000 of the 96,000 square feet will be for medical office clinics for the Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center and the Eye Group of Mississippi.