The national fitness club chain, Planet Fitness is expanding and adding to their Inland Northwest presence with a new location now in the permitting phase in North Spokane. The company, operating under Fit SpokNorth,LLC filed for a change of use permit for a new location at 9534 N. Newport Hwy. This will be located in the southern end of the building that was once a Shopko store, just north of The Y in North Spokane. This will be the last vacant space in the building as the other spaces are already occupied by a Ross and HomeGoods stores.
Building plans included in the permit filing show the new Planet Fitness will take a 24,501 square feet space for a gym, storage area, tanning/massage and locker rooms/showers. As the information for this new location is coming from a source other than Planet Fitness or its franchise holder no opening date is available just yet. The tenant improvement project is expected to cost $1.2 million and while the general contractor is shown as TBD, the architect on the project is DKMullin Architects of Moscow,ID.
This will be the fourth Planet Fitness location in Spokane and Kootenai County as others are already open at 1617 W. Northwest Blvd in Spokane, 13112 E. Sprague Ave. in Spokane Valley and 200 W. Hanley in Coeur d' Alene. Planet Fitness is a New Hampshire based company with around 2800 locations in North America, Australia and the Dominican Republic, for more information, visit their website at http://planetfitness.com
