The YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, which are building a healthy lifestyle village in Brown Deer, are planning to build another healthy lifestyle village in Franklin. The healthy lifestyle village is a concept of creating a campus with a YMCA fitness center and a Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare clinic. The idea is people can go to the campus to learn, plan and take action to improve their health.
The Franklin healthy lifestyle village will be build on South 27th Street, just south of Rawson Avenue. There the YMCA will build a 45,000-square-foot fitness center and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare will build a 20,000- to 30,000-squaure-foot clinic with physican offices, walk-in care, laboratory services and general radiology, including mammography.
The YMCA received a $1 million naming gift for the facility from Terry and Mary Briscoe. Terry Brisco is the CEO of National Insurance Company in Brookfield. He also serves on the board of directors of the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee. The healthy lifestyle villages in Brown Deer and Franklin are both expected to open in 2009.
