An Olympic style state of the art track facility in Louisville's West End is bringing thousands of visitors to this long neglected area of the city.

Our Kelsie Starks takes us inside the Norton Health Care Sports and Learning Center, which first opened its doors in 2021 and has since been a catalyst for more business and the west end of Louisville.

So this is our 200 meter indoor track facility.

Two pole vault pits, two halls on a jump pits, two high jump pits.

We have everything we need to perform, anything from youth meets to college meets to Olympic trials here.

So here in the main lobby, there's a lot of different outlets that people go to, whether they're coming in the doors for an event or they are coming to our amazing concessions that happens here or they are going for various programs, youth programs, afterschool programs, and what I consider one of my favorite places, the Fun Zone.

This amazing part of the facility always gives you a good sweat.

Mainly because we have the virtual rockwall as well as the bowling alley.

We host a lot of birthday parties here.

We host various staff retreats, church retreats.

But it is a good time for both kids and adults.

So up here is where a lot of the behind the scenes action we usually have.

So anywhere from the media journalism that occurs, get those articles in to our timers.

Audio visual I.T.

work is all in these booths.

And honestly, it gives them the best view in the house.

Really.

On any given day, we can have a track meet going on, a after school program, going on all while the next day we're having an ACT prep academy.

So we see it all within this facility on this campus as a whole, getting state control and then raising all the money through a combination of city money, private philanthropy and new market tax credits.

Bank debt was a very, very complicated financial process.

And then there's the whole aspect of figuring out what we're going to build.

Had never been built in this city before or in Kentucky.

But this is an Olympic NCAA level sports facility.

Centers like this.

Big sports facilities bring people from outside the community to spend money not only from outside the West End, from outside of Louisville, from outside the state of Kentucky, actually even from outside of our region.

People are coming.

It is happening.

People are coming from all across the country to Kentucky, to Louisville, to the west end of Louisville, which has seen decades and really generations of disinvestment, is it says to the community, you are worthy of this level of investment.

You are worthy of $53 million of philanthropy, that you're not only worthy of an investment, do worthy of something beautiful, of something that doesn't exist anyplace else in this state.

A beautiful facility, indeed.

So coming up on this week's Inside Louisville meets the decor.

Reynolds, the driving force behind building this complex.

She explains how she made her vision a reality and it almost didn't happen.

Watch that interview this Sunday on Inside Louisville at noon 11 a.m. Central right here on KCET.