New owners remodeling former Gold's Gym

By Anna Tuckett

Logan’s Planet Fitness will be moving to a newly renovated gym in the old Gold’s Gym building the first week of January, when the fitness club projects the changes will be completed.

Sports Academy and Planet Fitness, who share the same owner, assumed Gold’s Gym’s membership base after it closed in August. The gyms renegotiated a lease with the owner of the former Gold’s Gym building and started remodeling it to better fit their needs.

Planet Fitness general manager April Bankhead said the gym is outgrowing its current facilities and the new building will have twice the room.

The renovations include new equipment and facilities, with added daycare and group fitness classrooms for Sports Academy members to use.

“It’s going to be gorgeous. We will open it up and put lots of windows on the back,” said Dan Smith, the general manager of Sports Academy. “It will be a fun gym to walk into now.”

The new location, at 981 S. Main St., will allow Sports Academy members who live on the south end of Logan to have a closer option. The gym will continue to provide services for members at its northern location in addition.