Consider it or not, the story of The Mine began on a chunk of a serviette two and a half years in the past. Owings Mills-based developer Greenberg Gibbons bought The Outlets at Kenilworth in 2014. Ever since, the area has benefited from $20 million in investments to replace and modernize the mall that homes retailers like Dealer Joe’s, Ruth Shaw, J. Jill, About Faces Day Spa & Salon, and South Moon Beneath, simply to call just a few. 

“There was an thought for a well being membership at The Outlets at Kenilworth,” says Alex Jacobs, who owns Coppermine, Maryland’s largest supplier of youth sports activities and energetic programming for adults and households, with 12 areas in operation. “Due to the smaller footprint, we knew we wished to make it a boutique health idea.”

Throughout an preliminary walkthrough of the area, Jacobs, together with Coppermine’s COO Sean Rehak, Greenberg Gibbons’ CEO Brian Gibbons, and Greenberg Gibbons’ vice chairman Mark Bomse, poured over the again of a serviette—the place an architect from Greenberg Gibbons had sketched out an idea. 

“There was a right away feeling of consolation with the group,” Jacobs provides. “Coppermine is based on the folks.”

With an idea in thoughts, Jacobs reached out to longtime native health teacher Ann Marie Barbour, now the director of programming and operations for The Mine. Barbour was accustomed to Coppermine, the place she had labored beforehand as a free agent. Together with her 15 years of expertise within the boutique studio and health market, Jacobs says she “was the fitting particular person to run the ship.”