{"id":1120,"date":"2015-11-17T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-11-24T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T06:06:09","slug":"wellbridge-acquires-maryland-athletic-club-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/chains\/wellbridge-acquires-maryland-athletic-club-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellbridge Acquires Maryland Athletic Club Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wellbridge-300x106.png\" alt=\"Wellbridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wellbridge-300x106.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wellbridge-200x71.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wellbridge-800x283.png 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wellbridge.png 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Wellbridge<\/p>\n<p><strong>BALTIMORE, MD<\/strong> &#8211; Wellbridge, a Denver-based company that operates a family of 21 premium athletic and tennis clubs across the country, announced the purchase of the Maryland Athletic Club (MAC) brand. This follows Wellbridge\u2019s acquisition of the MAC Harbor East location on July 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the efforts of people like Tim Rhode, who is a co-founder of the MAC, the brand has an impressive reputation and great name recognition,\u201d said Wellbridge President and CEO Ed Williams. \u201cKeeping the name is one way to demonstrate how much we want to be a part of the community. We look forward to building on the positive energy Maryland Athletic Club has already established.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, Wellbridge acquired the Bel Air Athletic Club in Bel Air, MD, and had been looking for additional opportunities to expand into the Baltimore area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the Harbor East neighborhood and other parts of the city, there\u2019s so much opportunity for growth,\u201d Williams added. \u201cWe feel fortunate to be a part of everything that\u2019s going on.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>The MAC Harbor East opened in September 2007 and Wellbridge has had the distinct pleasure of serving its members since July 2015 with the same high-quality programs, membership experiences and customer service that were synonymous with Maryland Athletic Club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BALTIMORE, MD<\/strong> &#8211; Wellbridge, a Denver-based company that operates a family of 21 premium athletic and tennis clubs across the country, announced the purchase of the Maryland Athletic Club (MAC) brand. This follows Wellbridge\u2019s acquisition of the MAC Harbor East location on July 1, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[134,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}