<p>Joey Thurman: Welcome to rural Illinois. I'm at Fox Fitness, inside of their Prisco Community Center, part of the Fox Valley Park District. I'm with Brett Meier. Brett, thanks for being here. What is your role with the Fox Valley Park District?<br /><br />Brett Meier: I'm the general manager of Fox Fitness. So I oversee the four fitness centers within the district.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: Okay. And when was this facility started?<br /><br />Brett Meier: This has been here for a long time. It had a refresh, a remodel in 2018. July 2018, the new fitness center opened here at the Crystals Community Center.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: And prior to that, what was this building?<br /><br />Brett Meier: This building years back, it was Marmion Military Academy. I believe it was in the seventies that it became Prisco Community Center. We had a small fitness center, which was just basically like a room. Then we added this edition and added this beautiful fitness center to the location.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: And rumor has it, Al Capone sent his kid here.<br /><br />Brett Meier: That's the urban legend.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: He didn't send his kid to the community center, and I wasn't around that's the legend. Oh, okay. We're going to have to check that out.<br /><br />Brett Meier: I can't, I can't verify that.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: You can't. He can't verify... Now, the Fox Valley Park District, what is the overall purpose of it to, to bring everybody together?<br /><br />Brett Meier: To enrich the lives of the citizens that live within the Fox Valley Park District.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: Amazing. So you guys have all these different centers, 168 parks, which is crazy. That's, that's a lot of parks. I think I've been to maybe ten parks of my entire life. So you're trying to serve the entire community, from the little ones to the aging population.<br /><br />Brett Meier: Yeah. We offer diverse programs for all ages. All the way from little toddlers all the way up to seniors.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: Oh, that's great. And is there specific programs for children versus families or how do people find out about that?<br /><br />Brett Meier: You can go to foxvalleyparkdistrict.org, and then we would have links to go to see our programs, which is enormous.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: Right. And how many people do you have that are coming through a facility like the Prisco.<br /><br />Brett Meier: Any given day, we probably have almost a thousand people coming through here.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: Wow.<br /><br />Brett Meier: That's for various, either for fitness or for other programs that we have.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: And then as far as this facility, what do we have. Obviously the weight room behind us. And I mean, there's a bunch of smacking going on over there. What's happening in there that?<br /><br />Brett Meier: That is pickleball, which is very popular. And we have scheduled pickleball hours down at all the facilities, but we definitely have quite a few here.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: And you were mentioning earlier that Fox Fitness is going to bring everything together because all these different locations that you have in the Fox Valley now there is a common name behind it, right?<br /><br />Brett Meier: Yes. We had fitness at all community centers. They ran a little bit differently. So in 2018, we came out with the Fox Fitness name. It's going to be our brand name. And then we just tried to consolidate and, and run all of fitness centers. Like if you have the same experience at one that you're going to have at the other.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: Right.<br /><br />Brett Meier: Similarities between all three of them. And so that's really helped us as far as marketing our brand and our product.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: When people have memberships, is it one membership overall or do they have specific locations?<br /><br />Brett Meier: We have a lot of other card options. What we try to do is find the right option for the person. So you can get a reciprocal membership, which is going to be good at all three. Memberships at Vaughan are good for all three community centers. The additional fitness center we have the Copley Two Boxing Club, is going to just be an additional $5 a month. If you want to add that in.<br /><br />Joey Thurman: Get some boxing in later.<br /><br />Brett Meier: Yeah.</p>