Arvida Good Friends Living Well Centre is next to its Park Lane retirement village in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Park Lane offers independent villas and serviced apartments through to modern care rooms for rest home and hospital-level care, almost every type of living arrangement is available.
The Arvida Good Friends Living Well Centre is open to residents and the community.
“So, we built Natter Café, and that’s in the bottom level. It doesn’t look like a retirement village café. It’s modern. It’s funky. It’s great coffee, great food, and it’s really well used by the local community,” Jeremy told Masterclass.
“We also built a gym. The gym uses equipment that incorporates smooth air technology to harness the natural muscular movement of your body, resulting in a safer and highly effective exercise experience.
“We have about 500 members of our gym, 400 from the community and 100 from the village. So, we’ve got 400 paying members. They pay $20 a week to come and use the pool and the gym.
“In July, 2,500 people used the pool and gym. We also run Tai Chi and yoga and all sorts of other classes and we have 1,300 uses of our activities in the activity room.
“This asset that we’ve created not only benefits us, but it also benefits the community. We have also tenanted out part of our building to on-the-go physiotherapists.”
Jeremy then explained they had created a ride share business and also talked about aspects of the Centre that have not worked.
The SOURCE: The Wellness Centre provides a valuable marketing tool for Arvida.
