via Midland Daily News
A gym for "normal people" is slated to open early next year in the building on Joe Mann Boulevard that formerly housed McDonald's Nursery. "This is for the normal people, the average person," co-owner Numan Ali said of the planned Planet Fitness. "We don't have the muscle guys." Ali, a Dearborn-area pharmacist, and his two business partners also plan to open Planet Fitness franchises in Saginaw, Bay City, Flushing and Port Huron next year, Ali said in a phone interview last week. Growth in the Dover, N.H.-based Planet Fitness has "just exploded in the last few years ... because it's such a great value," company spokesman John Craig said.
Memberships are $10 per month. "For value, we think there's nothing close to us," Craig said. "We have 3 million members around the country." Planet Fitness, founded in Newington, N.H., in 1992, now has 500 locations in 44 states. Ali said crews will be gutting the inside of the 15,000-square-foot building at 701 Joe Mann Blvd. He said doors will open for a "pre-sale" in early January. "We'll open up the doors and set up an area where we can show a video" so that potential members can see what a typical Planet Fitness looks like, he said. City of Midland property records show that E&A Real Estate Holding LLC of Dearborn purchased the property for $1.25 million in September from McDonald's Nursery.
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