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After eight years in Percy Street, Active+ Warkworth moves this week to bespoke new premises in Queen Street.
Alyssa Gordon, who co-owns the business with her husband, Campbell, says the 188sqm site will be nearly double the size of the current one, and offer more dedicated carparks for customers.
She says one reason for the move on August 21 is that the Percy Street property was not set up for a multidisciplinary team, now comprising eight physios, two occupational therapists and three admin staff.
In Queen Street, the fit-out is designed to accommodate the team, and also provide opportunities for nutritionists and psychologists to work alongside.
“So it’s going to better suit the wider team, to help our clients,” she says.
The prospect that Watercare may dig up the road soon after the move did make Alyssa a little nervous, but she is confident that the benefits of the move outweigh any risk. “Besides, I’m hopeful that with how things have progressed, the pipeline’s not going to go through Queen Street itself after all,” Gordon adds.
She says the team will have an opening celebration – once she’s able to shift focus from the hard work involved in the move – probably in September.
Alyssa attended Kaipara Flats School and Mahurangi College, graduated from AUT in 2009, and then worked at an Active+ clinic in Albany, before buying the Warkworth franchise. She lives in Kaipara Flats with Campbell and their sons, aged 6 and 9.
