Dr. Kenneth Cooper said he has been changing the U.S. fitness landscape since the 1970s, and McKinney residents have been reaping the benefits for the past 10 years through the Cooper Fitness Center, a 76,000-square-foot fitness facility located on a 51-acre complex in Craig Ranch.
Approached by longtime friend David Craig about 10 years ago, Cooper said he was interested in partnering with the Craig Ranch development to establish a concept called Cooper Life, something he described as an experimental medical community.
With the decline in the housing market during the 2008 recession, Cooper had to abandon the project. However, since then things have started happening at the Craig Ranch fitness facility, which survived the economic downturn.
“Since the fitness center is truly one of the most beautiful in America, we knew we wanted to keep it alive,” Cooper said. “We hired a general manager, Roger Sargent, to focus on the fitness center to make it thrive.”
