A new $45.6 million sports medicine facility is coming to Metairie and will be built next to the Saints and Pelicans training facility, Ochsner Health and the two teams announced Wednesday.

Called Ochsner Medical Complex - Airline, it will be on the corner of Airline Drive and Tom Benson Way. Construction is expected to start later this year with a projected opening in late 2027.

It will be an expansion of Ochsner's partnership with national sports medicine provider Andrews Medicine, which already provides orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine physicians, athletic trainers and physical therapists in cities across Louisiana as part of the Ochsner Andrews Sports Medicine Institute.

“This is a world-class medical facility that we should all be very proud to have in our community," Saints an

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