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Hype Athletics requests $10 million to build Brownstown community and wellness center
Summary
Hype Athletics and Rep Thompson requested $10 million to purchase property (about $2.5M) and construct a community wellness center in Brownstown to expand ABA therapy, youth and mental-health programming, and workforce services for Downriver communities; presenters projected jobs and client counts but offered those as program projections rather than contractual commitments.
Hype Athletics representatives asked the House Appropriations subcommittee for $10,000,000 to purchase property and construct a community and wellness center in Brownstown to serve the Downriver region.
Rep Thompson and Hype Athletics speakers described a center that would add applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy, mental-health access, youth sports and workforce programs. Presenters said the organization operates successful centers elsewhere in Dearborn and Wayne and argued the Brownstown facility would address gaps in ABA and behavioral services downriver. Program leaders gave projected outcomes: about 35 permanent jobs, 80–100 seasonal jobs, 350 behavioral clients served and 120 children receiving ABA services at the new center; they also said purchase of the site would cost about $2.5 million, architectural planning about $560,000, and the remainder would fund construction.
Members asked about program projections, veteran services and the funding breakdown; presenters cited partnerships with Michigan Rehabilitation Services (MRS), local veteran groups and Michigan Works and said the attendance and placement figures are modeled on experience at existing locations. Presenters emphasized the project’s community and workforce impacts but provided program projections rather than binding commitments. No formal committee vote on the appropriation occurred in the transcript.
