Tag: Chuze Fitness

Sentinel staff report–
Chuze Fitness is now open in Citrus Heights, with its official opening taking place Oct. 20 in a space formerly home to Sports Authority.

The Citrus Heights location includes amenities such as HydroMassage chairs, an indoor cinema area with daily movie showings, a pool, hot tub and more, the company’s website says.

Rates listed for membership range from $9.99 to $49.99, with the higher-level membership including unlimited access to the gym’s Kids Club. The club offers child care on site from 8 a.m. to noon, 7 days a week, and 4-8 p.m. on weekdays.

Chuze Fitness is located at 5995 Birdcage Centre Ln., in the Marketplace at Birdcage shopping center. Hours of operation are currently 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 4 a.m.-10 p.m. on Fridays, and 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends.

Spokeswoman Allie Droze told The Sentinel in an email that Chuze Fitness no long has 24-hour clubs.

The Southern California-based fitness chain has over 30 locations throughout California, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. The next closest location will be on Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, according to the company’s website.

Sentinel staff report–
Despite fitness centers taking a significant hit amid forced closures during the pandemic, the industry appears to be on the rebound with two new clubs slated to open in Citrus Heights.

First to open will be a new Chuze Fitness center located in the former Sports Authority building at 5995 Birdcage Centre Lane. The location is still being renovated, but is slated for a Summer 2022 opening date, according to the company’s website.

The location is currently offering discounted memberships, with enrollment fees also waived, as part of a “presale” offer online.

The Southern California-based fitness chain has over 30 locations throughout California, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, according to the company’s website. Amenities offered at many of the gym’s California locations include HydroMassage chairs, indoor cinema areas with daily movie showings, tanning beds, indoor turf areas, as well as pools and hot tubs. Some locations are also open 24 hours.

Another Southern California-based fitness chain is also slated to open a new location in Citrus Heights, at the Sunrise Village shopping center currently being renovated at the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Madison Avenue. City Sports Club is planning to open a 36,000-square-foot location in the center, according to plans listed online.

Plans for the club were first made public in 2019, with documents at the time showing a 50,000-square-foot club in the works. That size has since been reduced, according to the latest property description posted by the center’s owner, Merlone Geier.

The future sites of both fitness clubs are located in the Sunrise MarketPlace business improvement district, which is made up of hundreds of businesses in the Sunrise-Greenback commercial corridor. The district’s executive director, Kathilynn Carpenter, said Friday that Chuze Fitness will be first to open, followed later by City Sports Club.

By Mike Hazlip—
The concrete slab foundation of the former Sports Authority is being ripped up as work begins on a new fitness center that plans to occupy the building in the Marketplace at Birdcage shopping plaza in Citrus Heights.

Heavy equipment could be seen inside the building on Wednesday as crews worked to break up the concrete that was the floor of the former sports store. Sunrise Marketplace Executive Director Kathilynn Carpenter confirmed the Southern California-based fitness chain, Chuze Fitness, plans to move into the building.

The company initially had plans to open Summer of 2022, but Carpenter said “they have a lot to do” to meet that timeline.

A phone call to Chuze Fitness Wednesday was not immediately returned by press time Wednesday night.

Carpenter could not provide any details on the construction, but the company claims several locations have a pool, according to their website.

A “coming soon” banner announcing Chuze Fitness was hung over the door in August of last year according to a previous report by The Sentinel. The site is located at 5995 Birdcage Centre Ln.

The San Diego-based gym has over 30 locations throughout California, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, according to the company’s website.

Amenities offered at many of the gym’s California locations include HydroMassage chairs, indoor cinema areas with daily movie showings, tanning beds, indoor turf areas, as well as pools and hot tubs. Some locations are also open 24 hours.

The Citrus Heights Sports Authority closed its doors in July of 2016 and has remained vacant ever since. Multiple news reports show the company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy that same year and undertook a plan to liquidate its assets.