MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - Spartan Dance and Fit Center is partnering with DTN Management to redevelop the old C & H Marketplace in Carriage Hills Complex off Lake Lansing and Hagadorn Roads into a new 12,500 square feet dance and fitness complex. The project construction will begin at the end of October of 2015 and is set to be completed by July of 2016.

Originally starting in downtown East Lansing, Spartan Dance and Fit Center has been in the East Lansing community for the last six years.

"It was very important for me, the staff and for our dance family and clients that we stay close to where our location is now," said Tiffany Russell, owner of Spartan Dance and Fit Center.

Russell says the dance center has nearly 450 students this year and about 220 adult memberships, which is why the center is moving into a larger location.

"We've continued to grow over the last few years to the point our lobbies and classrooms are not big enough to handle the amount of students and adult fitness clients we have coming into the center."

The new center, which will be about 1 mile from the current center, will feature brand-new locker rooms and 2,000 sq. ft. of lobby space that includes a kids play area, an iPad recreational zone, as well as an adult-only office area with free Wi-Fi. The new center will also feature a cafe in the lobby area that offers healthy snack options, coffee and even a juice bar.

"It's really bringing everything that we are lacking here currently into the next space as far as comfort and amenities go," said Russell.

Additionally, Russell says that they are working on partnering with a local business to offer healthy meal options to go.

"That way when our dance parents are leaving, or our fit center people are walking out at 6:30 p.m., they don't have to go home and start cooking or stop on the way and pick up something that's not healthy, which goes back on all the work they just put in."

Spartan Dance and Fit Center is a family lifestyle center that offers a variety of children's and adult drop-in classes, special workshops, summer dance camps and fitness lifestyle programs. Some classes offered include hip-hop, jazz, Zumba, lyrical, tap, ballet, salsa, ballroom, yoga, cheer and creative movement.