LA Fitness will in July close its gym in East Cobb after more than twenty years in business. The more than 48,000 square foot gym anchors Merchants Exchange shopping center at 4400 Roswell Road, across from The Avenue East Cobb.
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The gym will close permanently as of 2pm July 20th.
According to a property flyer for the East Cobb shopping center, the gym's current lease was due to "expire" on June 30, 2027. Its closure comes on the heels of our exclusive report June 5 that Fitness International, its parent company, is bringing its upscale "Club Studio" fitness brand to the Avenue West Cobb along Dallas Highway in West Cobb.
It's worth noting, too, that LA Fitness closed its standalone gym along Barrett Parkway in Kennesaw this past December, a move which was seemingly the result of their property being sold and the new owners planning to redevelop the site.
The LA Fitness in East Cobb occupies a onetime Harris Teeter grocery (as does the LA Fitness in Toco Hills), and while we have confirmed that a replacement is in the works, it won't be a Harris Teeter return (as several on our Instagram post hoped for).
Are you surprised to see LA Fitness close its East Cobb location? If you are a current member, which location do you plan to move to? What would you most like to see open in place of LA Fitness in East Cobb?
Please share your thoughts below.
The one on Abernathy is so disgusting it needs to be closed!
ReplyDeleteI have worked out at that location for years it seems great to me.
DeleteI'm guessing it will be a Trader Joe's. I would bet anyone a thousand dollars it will be a Trader Joe's
ReplyDeleteYou’d lose that bet because there’s already a Trader Joe’s like a quarter of a mile away (at the most), at the corner of Roswell Road and Johnson’s Ferry Road
DeleteI’ll take that bet. Does Venmo work?
DeleteI'll gladly take your thousand dollars since there's already a TJs less than a mile from that location.
DeleteHey dummy. Trader Joe’s is literally 200 yards from the LA Fitness East Cobb.
DeleteTJ might move
DeleteToco Hill (no “s”)
ReplyDeleteI hope the non-fitness tenant works out.....thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis sucks! This is so close to home! Wonder if they will open another one close by
ReplyDeleteThe Toco Hills location was originally an A&P.
ReplyDeleteA&P Futurestore
DeleteI'd like to see a renovated LA. Fitness. If not that than a competitor gym. If not that then a multi purpose recreation facility. Pickleball, basketball, go carts, mini golf, etc.
ReplyDeleteIs the 1on Cobb parkway open
ReplyDeleteThat gym was nasty. The hot tub was all peed up and smelt like urine.
ReplyDelete"the hot tub was all peed up"...what are you, 6?
Delete"smelt"...try "smelled".
DeleteNo thanks. Not interested in smelling that. You try it.
DeleteWill it refund or let me discontinue if I find other LA Fitness is far away from my home?
ReplyDeleteTry asking them.
DeleteGood idea. And what if I want to see what the place is like? Should I try going there? Or what if I want to look at the equipment, should I try looking at it? Let me know, thanks.
DeleteI was a member of the Roswell gym for many years. It's a good location but the offerings for group classes have crashed-only a few available. When I was working out there, the group classes were going from 6AM to when the gym closed.
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