California Family Fitness delays opening of K Street gym

Rendering courtesy of California Family Fitness

The opening of the California Family Fitness downtown club will be delayed until early next year, and will cost more than a million dollars extra.

The opening of the California Family Fitness downtown club will be delayed until early next year, and will cost more than a million dollars extra, company officials said.

The 32,000-square-foot club planned for 1012 K St. is now scheduled to open in January instead of late this summer.

Because it is an old building with no known original building plans, CalFit had to hire engineering experts, including an engineering testing company to take core samples, said Larry Gury, CalFit cofounder and one of its owners. That specialty engineering work took a lot of time, he added.

In addition, structural steel will be needed to reinforce the walls for the project?s multiple levels. The order for custom-made steel has been placed, but will take two months to arrive, Gury said.

That extra work and custom concrete will add more than a million dollars to the project?s original cost of $3.5 million, Gury said. But California Family Fitness will make the investment without scaling back on the project, he stressed.

In another update to the project, CalFit has hired the primary companies for the project. A.P. Thomas Construction Inc., which has done most of the gym chain?s clubs, is the general contractor, while Jplus Architects Inc. is the architecture firm. Both are local companies.

Members who signed up during the California Family Fitness presale for the new downtown club can use the company?s existing downtown club in the basement at 428 J St. or CalFit?s other 15 locations in the region.

The five-level gym will feature a rooftop area with an outdoor basketball court and lounge with fire pits. The club also will offer a recreation center with a pool table and ping-pong ? amenities not available at the company?s other locations.

In addition, the gym will have towel and laundry service, massage bed services, sauna and steams rooms, a smoothie bar and locally prepared organic foods.

Kelly Johnson covers retail, insurance,?marketing and media, manufacturing and distribution, sports business, nonprofits and education for the Sacramento Business Journal.

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