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Weymouth Club Shows Off Its New, Sleek Look

Kathy Kurtz Ferrari
Staff Writer
10/14/10
After nine months of planning and more than a year of construction, the Weymouth Club has a new, sleek look awaiting those who may want the same thing for themselves.

They are doing much more than just playing tennis at the club, located at 75 Finnell Drive in Weymouth and long recognized as one of Greater Boston’s premiere tennis facilities.

Owners Steve and Sally Goldman, longtime Milton residents, are proud of how far their club has come in the 22 years they have owned it.

“When we first bought the club, it was basically eight tennis courts and a small pool,” Sally said, sitting at a table in the newly upgraded upstairs café overlooking the main tennis courts. The original club was built by the Finnell family, of Milton, in 1974.

The Weymouth Club now boasts 10 indoor hard courts, three clay courts; a myriad of indoor, outdoor and therapy pools and an active swim team; group exercise and Pilates studios; workout classes; personal training; several thousand square feet full of weight machines, treadmills, stair-climbers and rowing machines; and much more.

For the younger set, the club even offers the new, 12,000-square-foot energy center, where children from 8 weeks to 16 years old can find just about anything to help keep them healthy, amused, active and creative.

“A lot of our decisions over the years have been based on families, because when we started owning this business, our children were young,” Sally said, remembering the days of raising their children, Greg, now 30, Diana, 28, and Leah, 25, in Milton. “We are quite committed to anything to do with kids.”

Children have many choices at the Weymouth Club, including spending time in the new Xrkade, which unites active video games with exercise for older kids. And many of the tennis courts after school are full of young tennis players taking a lesson from one of the many certified pros. The Weymouth Club proudly boasts of its many junior players who have gone on to play tennis in college.

Although tennis is a big part of their business, the Goldmans have found that many of their members want a club with options for exercise.

“Tennis is a big focus, but what we found is that having all the other things actually helps tennis. It’s a feeder system,” Sally said, adding that many members take advantage of other choices for exercise offered at the Weymouth Club.

And after the renovation, the club has never looked better.

“We’re just trying to up the look,” said Sally, walking around the updated facility. “It’s like your house; after a while you have to redo it. And a place like this, it gets a lot of usage.”

One of the most impressive things about the renovation, which cost roughly $800,000, was that almost all the work was done at night. The hundreds of members, many from Milton, saw very little interruption to their routines.

“The thing that was amazing to me was the carpeting. They did it in sections, a row, a row, a row,” Sally said, looking out over the hundreds of pieces of exercise equipment in the expansive, busy fitness room. “That was a huge, huge job.”

Almost every corner of the club got a facelift, including the locker rooms, front lobby, office spaces and dining areas.

“But with very little business interruption,” she added. Over the years, the Goldmans have done roughly 15 other upgrades to the club. “We’ve always had a philosophy of reinvesting in our business.”

But the main philosophy that the Goldmans want to share is one of a healthy lifestyle, which includes lots of exercise. Both Sally and Steve were tennis players in their youth, and Sally calls herself “an advanced exerciser.” She feels she can look at sports from a unique perspective, as she has been on all sides of tennis – as a ranked junior player herself, as a coach at Milton Academy and at Thayer Academy in Braintree, and now running a business.

“Exercise is good for you. It really is the magic bullet in many ways. …It’s good for your brain, it’s good for your mood, it’s good for your body and it’s social,” she said, citing the community that the club has created for its members, across all age ranges.

“People come here and they feel better. And they make friends. I really believe it in my heart and soul,” Sally said. “If you can make exercise a part of your life, whatever that is, a few times a week, it’s so good for you.”

To find out more information about the Weymouth Club, visit their Web site at www.weymouthclub.com, or call (781) 337-4600. Memberships are available, and some activities do not require membership.