Atrium Well being has introduced it is planning to open a brand new well being heart in South Park and it is geared towards ladies’s well being. The transfer comes simply two years after Charlotte’s different massive well being system, Novant Well being, opened its personal ladies’s well being heart, additionally in South Park. For extra, “Morning Version” host Marshal Terry talks to Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger enterprise publication.
Mecia: Among the specialists we talked to stated it is a number of various things. First off, is the popularity that women and men have completely different well being wants that transcend variations in reproductive organs and giving beginning, however even to issues like coronary heart well being and neurology, I imply, that these are among the specialties which might be opening up in a few of these ladies’s specialty well being clinics that Novant and Atrium are opening. You already know, there’s been an rising understanding that women and men have completely different well being wants. And so this can be a technique to handle that. That is a part of it. The opposite a part of it’s that it is, I believe, a bit of little bit of a advertising and marketing area of interest within the sense that girls make most well being care selections in households. And so should you can enchantment to ladies and kind of get them within the door and expose them to your different companies, then it is a enterprise profit to you as properly.
Terry: Nicely, any thought why each are situated in the identical space? SouthPark?
Mecia: Nicely, the specialists we talked to stated that sometimes opponents do not prefer to cede floor to their rivals, in order that they prefer to find in the identical space. The opposite a part of it’s, , that South Park is in a wealthier space of city the place presumably extra persons are capable of pay for companies and have increased ranges of insurance coverage.
Terry: All proper. From well being to health now. The Morrison YMCA in Ballantyne is planning so as to add a retractable dome over its swimming pool. I assume that is so people can go swimming this time of 12 months when it is chilly.
Mecia: It’s. It sounds form of cool. They’ve a rendering, a video that exhibits this factor opening and shutting. It is it is fairly neat. The associated fee is about $2.5 million. The Y is fundraising for it. They’ve already raised greater than $1,000,000. And the thought is to make it so that you could swim there 12 months spherical. You already know, proper now, clearly, , sometimes outside swimming pools are open solely, , between round Memorial Day and Labor Day. This is able to lengthen the lifetime of the pool 12 months spherical. You get to swim groups, , water ballet courses, lap swimming. You already know, Charlotte tends to have a scarcity of indoor swimming pools for swim meets and issues like that. They’re additionally increasing the pool to eight lanes that is purported to be prepared by subsequent summer time. After which the aim could be to start out development on the dome on the finish of subsequent summer time.
Terry: All proper. On to some grocery retailer information now. Earth Fare has introduced it is closing its retailer in Davidson. And now I keep in mind Earth Fare closing all of its shops proper earlier than the pandemic, solely to then reopen some shops. What is going on on with them?
Mecia: Yeah, there’s been plenty of opening and shutting of Earth Fare proper earlier than the pandemic in February 2020. Earth Fare filed for chapter safety, closed all 50 of its shops. Pandemic hits in March of 2020, and grocery gross sales in all places else undergo the roof. A brand new firm buys the Earth Fare identify and reopens among the shops final 12 months and together with a number of within the Charlotte area. However now a few of these shops which have reopened have began to shut, together with one in South Park. This Davidson retailer was really a brand new retailer. It wasn’t an current Earth Fare beforehand, however it’s closing. There are nonetheless 4 Earth Fare shops within the Charlotte area. Who is aware of the place it goes from right here?
Terry So is it simply an underperforming retailer? I imply, have you learnt?
Mecia Yeah. I believe the corporate stated in a press release that there have been some geographical issues with this website. Possibly, , it is a bit of bit smaller, more durable to get to. I believe that is what a few of what they have been making an attempt to say clearly wasn’t performing to expectations.
Terry: Lastly, Tony, a Charlotte vacation custom is coming to an finish, the animatronic Bear Symphony that has performed vacation tunes in uptown Founder’s Corridor for nearly 25 years is not going to be there this 12 months.
Terry: Now, Tony, I’ve to inform you, I’ve fond recollections of seeing the Leonard Berstein Symphony Orchestra, because it’s referred to as. So why is it not coming again?
Mecia: Nicely, that is an excellent query, Marshall, and the reply is just not actually that easy. You already know, what we’re speaking about right here is eighteen robotic Christmas bears who’ve performed vacation music and Founders Corridor uptown since 1999, they did not play there in 2020 or 2021 due to COVID. Now that the pandemic has receded, although, the bears are apparently not coming again. I talked final weekend with the contractor who units up and runs the Bears, and he stated there are not any plans for the Bears to return to Founders Corridor, however he actually did not say a lot else. Now there are simply so you may get your vacation music repair.
There are quartets of singing robotic bears deliberate in Kannapolis this 12 months and perhaps in Mint Hill, however the outlook for that full 18-piece orchestra is unsure. Founders Corridor is owned by Financial institution of America and it is managed by actual property firm JLL. I’ve tried quite a few occasions this week to get any form of a proof from Financial institution of America and JLL about why the Bears are usually not coming again. They usually’ve been unresponsive to my inquiries. So it is actually a thriller at this level. And, , the Bears have been canceled. You’d hope that somebody would step up and personal that call and clarify it, since for lots of people, it’s a Charlotte vacation custom. However, , that seems to not be taking place. I’ll hold asking about it. And if I be taught something new, perhaps we are able to discuss it subsequent time.
Terry All proper, Tony, the vacations simply will not be the identical this 12 months. Thanks.
