Izzo name to adorn new medical center in Lansing

MARK SANCHEZ, CRAIN'S GRAND RAPIDS BUSINESS

e developer behind a new medical center in Lansing is naming the facility after longtime Michigan State University men’s college basketball coach Tom Izzo and his wife, Lupe.

e $25 million clinic on McLaren Health Greater Lansing’s new health care campus will carry the name “Izzo Family Medical Center” in recognition of Tom and Lupe Izzo’s support for numerous causes and charities in the Lansing area, and for what Gillespie Group founder and CEO Pat Gillespie calls their “positive contributions to the region.” e Izzos also are investors in the project.

“ ey do so many things in this community that go unrecognized. We just thought it would be a great way to celebrate what they’ve done, what they do and continue to do on a daily basis here in our community,” said Gillespie, who graduated from MSU in 1992 with a degree in construction management.

“It was tting,” Gillespie told Crain’s Grand Rapids Business. “Peo-