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Woodbury's HealthEast Sports Center To Be Renamed This Spring
The sports center's website is already using its new name, and on-site signs are set to be replaced in April, officials said.
WOODBURY, MN — Woodbury’s HealthEast Sports Center is set to get a new name this month to reflect corporate-ownership changes over the past five years.
The complex will soon be called M Health Fairview Sports Center, due to Fairview’s 2017 merger with HealthEast and 2019 partnership with the University of Minnesota and M Physicians, city officials Wednesday said in a news release.
The sports center’s website is already using the new name, and on-site signs are set to be replaced in April, officials said.
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“We take pride in working through partnerships to achieve the goals of the community and look forward to working with M Health Fairview to ensure a smooth transition for our other partners, visitors and customers,” Mayor Anne Burt said in the release. “We have a shared mission of promoting healthy lifestyles, and the sports center is a premier showcase for healthy, active living.”
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The Woodbury City Council approved a $1.8 million, 14-year sponsorship agreement for the sports center in April 2017 with HealthEast, which later merged with Fairview.
Fairview can opt to extend the partnership at the end of the agreement in 2031, according to the release.
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The sponsorship agreement will not change due to the sports center’s renaming, Woodbury officials said, adding city funds will not be used to replace any signs.
Revenues from the naming-rights sale — which equate to about $128,000 per year — have been put into reserve funds that will be used for initiatives “that promote healthy, active lifestyles at the sports center or in other areas of the community,” officials said in the release.
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