New Sports Health Facility To Be Built Next To Jets HQs

New Sports Health Institute To Be Built Next Door To Jets HQs

New Jersey-based hospital operator Atlantic Health "will build a world-class sports health institute, reportedly the first of its kind in New Jersey, next to" the Jets' HQs at The Green at Florham Park, according to Lawrence Ragonese of the Newark STAR-LEDGER. The new facility adds to Atlantic Health's "close ties to the Green at Florham Park project," as the company in '07 acquired the naming rights to the Jets' $75M, 120,000-square-foot HQs and training facility located within the complex. Atlantic Health Dir of Orthopedic Services Joseph DiPaolo said that the sports health institute, which will be a 100,000-square-foot, four-story structure, will "offer comprehensive medical, psychological, nutritional and physical rehabilitation services to cover the needs of a wide variety of athletes, from professional, college and high school participants to weekend warriors." The facility is estimated to cost between $30-40M to construct and equip, and construction will begin this year. DiPaolo said that the facility "will be modeled on some well-known sports medicine facilities in the nation," including the Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Alabama. In addition to the Jets HQs, the sports health facility and an office complex at the Florham Park site, developer Rockefeller Group Development Corp. is "planning to build a 425-unit 'active adult, high end' residential complex and a Marriott Renaissance ClubSport, which would include a 250-room hotel blended with a 75,000-square-foot health club and spa" (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 1/22).