Several jobs could possibly be created if plans for a brand new 24-hour fitness center in a disused Inverness automobile showroom are given the inexperienced gentle.
Anytime Fitness Inverness is in search of to transform the street-facing half of the empty Arnold Clark Skoda showroom on the metropolis’s 26 Harbour Road.
If the plans get the go forward the prevailing constructing can be partitioned to kind two websites, with the south aspect which faces the principle street became the brand new fitness center.
The rear of the constructing can be retained to be used as a potential storage, in step with numerous different companies on the street.
Confirming plans for the 5000 sq ft well being membership, Anytime Fitness Inverness’s franchise proprietor Donald Mackay stated the location would create “a number of full-time and part-time” jobs.
He plans to speculate a “important six-figure sum” within the website, which, when full, would supply “a premium 24-hour well being membership facility” with model new “premium tools”.
The website would additionally boast altering areas and each group train lessons and private coaching choices for its clients.
“I’m optimistic about receiving planning permission for the brand new well being membership and with the ability to open an Anytime Fitness in Inverness,” he stated.
“We’re working carefully with the native council to finalise plans and supply the area people with a health facility they are often pleased with.”
He added: “With our membership being regionally owned, we are going to put neighborhood on the coronary heart of all the things that we do and hopefully sit up for supporting individuals in Inverness with their well being targets.”
If it does get the inexperienced gentle with planners the well being membership may open as early as this summer time.
The membership plans characteristic devoted free weights, cardio and purposeful coaching areas.
The intention is to offer what Mr Mackay calls “a facility appropriate for individuals of all health ranges”.
The former automobile showroom’s sizeable current automobile parking space can be divided between the constructing’s fitness center and storage websites.
Bays on the entrance and sides of the constructing are earmarked for fitness center clients and workers, whereas these on the rear can be made out there to be used by any future tenant of the storage and to offer any overflow parking as required.
A one-way site visitors system would even be launched on the location, making use of the 2 current entry factors from the constructing out on to Harbour Road.
Anytime Fitness has greater than 175 golf equipment throughout the UK and Ireland and all of its franchised golf equipment are independently owned.
Members of Anytime Fitness are capable of profit from a “be part of one, be part of all” coverage the place their distinctive entry fob will grant them entry to any of Anytime Fitness’s UK golf equipment, in addition to its wider portfolio of greater than 4500 different gyms world wide.
