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SEPTEMBER 2024
W I N D S O R ’ S F O R E M O S T B U S I N E S S N E W S P U B L I C AT I O N
INSIDE TRACK
Dr. Bart Kaczmarek, one of a group building a health clinic downtown on the site of a former Goodlife gym.
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By Ron Stang
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new health clinic in the core of Windsor hopes to shore up the needs of area residents and beyond. The still unnamed clinic will go into the former GoodLife gym location, at 1550 Ouellette Avenue, which closed four years ago. The building sold for $1.6 million last month to a group of partners, including physicians headed by Dr. Bart Kaczmarek, who has practiced out of the Medical Laboratories of Windsor building further up Ouellette. Kaczmarek is excited about the new medical center, which will accommodate several doctors’ offices, a pharmacy, a dentist and physiotherapy clinic. The move-in is scheduled for early next year. The facilities will operate on the first floor and basement, and there are as many as 50 parking spots. Renovations have “already started,” according to Kaczmarek, with “quite a bit” of investment to transform what used to be a women’s-only gym. Continued on page 4