 Mercer purchased the former Georgia Music Hall of Fame building in downtown Macon in 2012; the extensively renovated building reopened in 2014 as the home of Mercer Medicine, a multi-specialty physician clinic and a division of the School of Medicine.Mercer opened a large retail-residential center on the Macon campus in 2011.The center, called Mercer Lofts, houses the Barnes & Noble operated university bookstore, other shops, and student apartments.