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Quality of Life
The Atlanta Hawks’ Nest
in Brookhaven is designed for the future By Bonnie Hunter cryotherapy, sensory deprivation tanks, and
in-ground hydrotherapy. Offering the most
advanced treatments in preventative and
Emory University and the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club have a rehabilitative sports performance training, the
partnership that is forging the future of sports medicine in Brookhaven. privately funded complex is the product of HOK
– a global design, architecture, engineering,
and planning firm. HOK did not take on the
Team. Emory’s state-of-the-art health and sports project alone. The international firm, which
medicine complex is a juggernaut of innovation. also designed the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in
It sits on a 5-acre campus, and as home to the Downtown Atlanta, worked with local firms to
Hawks, it is playfully referred to as the Nest. create and complete the complex.
Since 1968, the NBA team has been based By drawing on the strengths of the
PHOTO: SCOT T WANG
in Atlanta and since 2017, they have perfected community, such as the highly respected Emory
their skills in Brookhaven. The Complex is also University School of Medicine, to support and
the hub of Emory’s Sports Medicine program improve the performance and health of the
and Sports Science and Research division, Atlanta Hawks, the complex shows that great
giving the Hawks immediate access to Emory’s innovation takes teamwork. Coming together
Within the walls of the 90,000-square-foot world-class physicians. for the greater good can create advances and
Emory Sports Medicine Complex is the home of The Nest features two full-length basketball operations that are truly exceptional. This speaks
the Atlanta Hawks training and practice facility, courts, performance training areas, a film to the spirit of DeKalb County, where the future is
as well as the Hawks Basketball Operations room, and a fully dedicated recovery area with bright, collaborative, and state-of-the-art
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