[10] August 26, 2011
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On Tuesday, Emerald Heights Retirement Community in Redmond held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new fitness and wellness center scheduled to open next summer. From left, board of directors vice chair John Plovie, residents Don T. Williams, Bob Brett and George Scott, former board chair Daphne Schneider, residents Lew Fink, Jack Wright, Robert Duin and Bob Levin and Emerald Heights President and CEO Lisa Hardy. SAMANTHA PAK,
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Residents of Emerald Heights Retirement Community in Redmond will soon have 7.8 million reasons to look and feel their best. On Tuesday afternoon, they joined board members, staff and others for a groundbreaking ceremony for the community’s new $7.8 million fitness and wellness center. The new facility is the result of six years of planning and is scheduled to be completed June of next year. The building will include a 30-foot-by-60-foot swimming pool, equipment room for strength and cardiovascular training as well as an exercise room for tai chi, yoga and other group exercise classes. Previously, the campus’ multipurpose room was used for classes. In addition, the center will have a spa and beauty salon with two treatment rooms for massages, facials, manicures, pedicures and other pampering services. “It’s an exciting thing,” said Emerald Heights President and Chief Executive Office Lisa Hardy. “It’ll be so much bigger and better (than the current fitness center).” Hardy said the fitness and wellness center was prompted by high demand as 60 percent of the roughly 460 residents at Emerald Heights utilize the current fitness center. They have outgrown the current center, she said. The new building will be 12,000 square feet —
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more than twice the size of the current 5,975 square-foot building — and offer more options for residents. Hardy said with a bigger facility, she hopes more residents will be inspired to exercise. “We’ve really embraced wellness as a whole, as a community,” she said. To pay for the fitness and wellness center, Hardy said Emerald Heights has built up some cash reserves and they plan to use that to fund the project. The retirement community is also looking into banking partners to help with financing, but nothing is finalized yet. The planning process for the center began in 2005 as part of Emerald Heights’ master plan and was a collaboration among staff, board members, residents, the architecture firm and contractors. Building the new facility became a high priority in 2007 when Emerald Heights board members and staff saw how important it was to residents.
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