BROOKHAVEN, GA. — The Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club and Emory Healthcare have partnered to build a 90,000-square-foot training and sports medicine center on Executive Park Drive in Brookhaven, which will serve as the team’s official practice site. The privately funded facility will cost roughly $50 million to develop, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The project will feature a fully dedicated recovery area including cryotherapy, sensory deprivation tanks and in-ground hydrotherapy. All non-sports orthopaedic specialties will be located two blocks away at The Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center. The team expects to break ground this summer, and the Hawks Basketball Operations Department will be housed in the facility upon its completion. In addition to the naming rights entitlement of the training and sports medicine facility, Emory will become the official sports medicine provider of the team. The Hawks’ new facility will be the first in the NBA to be co-located with an entire sports medicine center, allowing for expert and immediate treatment and on-site access to state-of-the-art equipment such as a 3 Tesla MRI scanner. Emory will utilize roughly 30,000 square feet that will offer preventative and rehabilitative treatment and sports performance training. The entire roster of doctors, surgeons and specialists from Emory’s current Sports Medicine Center will also make Brookhaven its permanent home and treat patients inside the new facility. According to ESPN, the new facility will be delivered ahead of the 2017-2018 NBA season.
From the April 5 press conference about the new facility in Brookhaven: From left, Atlanta Hawks president of basketball operations and head coach Mike Budenholzer; Atlanta Hawks principal owner Terry Ressler; director of Emory Orthopedics and Spine Center and chief medical officer of Emory Orthopedics and Spine Hospital Scott Boden; and Atlanta Hawks CEO Steve Kooning.
Emory Healthcare, Atlanta Hawks to Build $50M Sports Medicine Center, Team Training Facility
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