Snap Fitness Coming to Dearborn
Snap Fitness, a franchise business that started in Minneapolis in 2003, will soon be moving into Dearborn.
Snap Fitness is moving into the former Boston Market building on Telegraph, just north of Cherry Hill in Dearborn.
The building at 136 north Telegraph Road that once housed a Boston Market is in the process of being transformed into a fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment that members can access 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Snap Fitness which launched in just 2003, today has more than 2,000 locations and some 400,000 members globally. The fitness center’s recipe for success appears to be taking the most readily used health equipment and putting it into smaller, passcard-secure locations with affordable membership pricing. Inc. Magazine’s annual survey of fast growing companies listed Snap Fitness as the second-highest concept in the health category. Overall, Snap Fitness was one of the top 20 fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S., according to Inc.
The remodeling of the former Boston Market, located just north of Cherry Hill, is underway but temporarily came to a halt Tuesday, Dec. 1, when Dearborn city inspectors issued a stop-work order. City officials told us the stop work order was issued because remodeling work was being done inside the building without a permit. Gutting the building does not require a permit but once work begins on remodeling one is required.
Once the permit is issued, work on the inside of the building will continue. The Snap Fitness website lists the new Dearborn location but not yet a date for its official opening.
It is nice to see some new retail move into Dearborn. We welcome the new business owners to the neighborhood and wish them the best of luck.
December 4th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Another snafu by Dearborn’s building dept. Wake up someone wants to occupy one of your many empty buildings, and you have to play games with them. Mayor show your people something common sense.
December 4th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Far be it from me to poo poo new business in Dearborn but….
Don’t we have enough fitness buildings in Dearborn? Not to mention what this will do to the Performing Arts fitness center.
This would be laughable if not so sad. Why can’t we convince new and exciting businesses to come to Dearborn. We need to think outside of the box instead of same old, same old? For goodness sake, do we not have people in this administration with an ounce of creativity?
The Mayor should be embarrassed to go on a local radio station with Mayor’s of progressive cities.
Come to Dearborn where you can eat,drink and exercise yourself silly!
December 4th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
^^ Apparently, the only thing some people can do is bitch.
Good luck to the new business!
December 4th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Amen, Bob!!
December 4th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
MTST, no offense, but geez! I agree with Bob–could you please stop bitching? Were you one of those who thought that the proposed Kohls a while back was too declasse’ for Dearborn, too? Can you imagine how much better off if that had been built? Now, if this were another bar, I could understand, but what the hell? I hardly think this will draw any people from the ‘center,’ as it will draw a different demographic as well from a different location. This space has been empty for quite some time, and I for one am very happy to see this very visible empty spot filled, and with a somewhat unique business at that. We could do far worse…YEAH! and good luck to them!
December 5th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Hey MTST, guess what? I was just checking out their website and they really seem to be quite far from the same old, same old. They are inexpensive and extremely convenient when you consider the 24/7 model they operate under. I’ve driven past the one on Haggerty and it looks great! The Performing Arts Center is great but too expensive for me, out of my way, and the hours don’t work well for me. This location is cheaper, on my way home from work and on my way home from the Ford Road and Beech Daly area I frequent, and now I can go ANYTIME! It may be my perfect solution. This IS a new and exciting business model.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:49 am
complaining about a new fitness center??..unreal!…again please stop pretending to have a business background…these companies do much research into where they place their stores…they probably found a large number of under educated, fat ass dearborn/dearborn heights residents who inhabit a 1 mile radius of this property……
December 5th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
It was not my intention to sound anti-business for Dearborn. But it seems like we have become so desparate to fill empty buildings that we don’t care what goes in them. In this economy, who has extra money to spend at an exercise joint. Look around, more people have taken to walking. Talk to people who work or own Hair Salons. Business is way down because people may have some extra money for a hair cut but not for color or highlights which cost more money.
I am not a business owner; but just to throw out what I would have thought to be a worthwhile business in that building is a shoe store. Not a payless type store but something like a Hershey’s in Garden City. Talk about the demographics. The location is supported by neighborhood families who need and buy good shoes. Easy on and easy off with excellent parking. Why aren’t we attracting businesses like this in Dearborn?
Dearbornette:
I would have supported a Kohl’s in Dearborn. I shop there all the time at WESTLAND MALL. We should have more stores that sell goods that people need and don’t have to travel outside of the city to purchase.
If this is bitching, then so be it. It is my opinion. I guess I should be happy the city didn’t attract Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club opening up in Lincoln Park. After all, maybe people think we need another one of those in Dearborn too.
December 5th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I agree Deabornette!!!!!!!! Living on the far west side of Dearborn. it takes longer to get to the center than the work out does. Not to mention parking “way out yonder” and the cost. Dearborn needs to wake up and understand that everyone does not want to go through that much fuss just to have a little time on the tread mill.
December 5th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Does anyone know if the center is a money maker?