Anytime Fitness plans move to ‘bigger space’ on Walton Road
Published 7:00 pm Saturday, December 16, 2023
- Jordan Cunningham, who manages the local Anytime Fitness, pauses for a photo in December 2023, at the 24-hour gym in the La Grande Town Center on Island Avenue. Anytime Fitness is moving to a larger space on Walton Roady in February 2024 and plans to expand its machines and programs.
LA GRANDE — Practitioners of the sweaty arts and sciences might find it useful to know that Anytime Fitness is moving to a new location come February.
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The 24-hour gym, which has done business in the La Grande Town Center on Island Avenue since its opening in 2004, will take up new quarters in a building at 10701 Walton Road, the spot formerly occupied by AC Powersports.
Anytime Fitness has simply outgrown its current domicile, said Manager Jordan Cunningham.
“(The new location) is about two and a half times the size of our current one. It’s a bigger building, bigger parking lot and bigger space overall,” she said.
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Anytime Fitness is a chain of fitness centers that has grown to 5,100 locations worldwide since its beginnings in Minnesota in 2002. Members have access to the facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Since 2018, the La Grande franchise has been owned by Nathan Fortlage, of North Carolina. Cunningham has been the local manager since mid-October.
She has 10 years experience as a fitness trainer.
During daytime business hours, the local franchise offers its clients personal coaching and training. Cunningham said that is the one of Anytime Fitness’s most important features.
“We are primarily a coaching facility. Beyond being a full access gym, we emphasize personal training,” she said.
The local gym is equipped with a full array of strength training gear including free weights and weight machines, and aerobic machines like treadmills, ellipticals and stair climbers. Cunningham said the inventory will be expanded at the new location.
“We’ll be taking a lot of stuff from here, but we’ll be adding a lot of brand-new equipment too,” she said.
There are plans to add a couple of personal trainers to the staff and to improve and expand training programs, said Cunningham.
“There will be a group training room at the new location, and we’ll be running some really good promotions once we’re there,” she said.
She added that the new facility will feature a sauna and a red light therapy bed. Red light therapy is an emerging therapy that uses low-level red light to improve skin condition.
A precise date for the opening of the Walton Road facility hasn’t been set. Cunningham said it likely will happen around the middle of February.
“I’m looking forward to the new schematics and having more space,” she said. “It’s always exciting when a new attraction comes to town, and this will feel like a brand-new thing.”