Fitness Chain Signs Big Lease At Miami Worldcenter

A large fitness chain has signed a deal to lease space at Miami Worldcenter.

California-based Fitness International LLC signed the lease on November 4, according to a filing with Miami-Dade County.

Fitness International operates multiple brands, including LA Fitness.

The company is leasing approximately 35,363 square feet at Worldcenter in a 10 year deal, with four additional five-year options, the filing states.

As part of the deal, the company was given exclusivity through parts of Worldcenter.

In addition, Worldcenter is pledging that at least 95% of parking spaces in Worldcenter’s garage will be available for use by Fitness International. Customers of other retailers at Worldcenter will also have access to those spaces on a first-come first served basis.

Up to 90 minutes in the parking garage will be free if validated by Fitness customers, with unlimited free parking for 25 employees.

The seven-story garage is above the leased premises and must maintain at least 1,100 striped spaces, the filing says.

 

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Kitty W.
6 months ago

Great. A new nearby bathhouse.

Se me paró
6 months ago

Call it hammam, it’s more discreet.

Downtowner
6 months ago

Works for me! :p

Anonymous
6 months ago

Do you mean that there is sex happening there?!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Dude, I thought we were being discrete here?

Bathhouse Bottom
6 months ago

Sign me up

Anonymous
6 months ago

I love hammams. Had the most amazing one in the Middle East and a really nice strong man washed the majority of my entire body in the appropriate way. After you get to soak up the steam in cavern like rooms made entirely of white marble and get served tea and sweet delights. I highly recommend this type of service if we are lucky to have it in Miami.

VMR
6 months ago

Nice addition to the project. It will drive daily users and a lot of foot traffic to the site to support the businesses there.

Anonymous
6 months ago

We need Equinox!!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

It will follow, for sure. Probably even more than one.

Relatable
6 months ago

Related owns
equinox, so no…

Anonymous
6 months ago

Related companies from New York owns equinox not the related group from Miami. There’s no reason they wouldn’t if it was a good business decision. They are not exclusively in related companies projects

Slim Shady
6 months ago

No but the TNM article says that LA Fitness has exclusively.
It would be hard to believe if that exclusively carried into individual buildings though.

brosef
6 months ago

Bro, Related Companies of New York and Related Group of Miami are the same people.

Anonymous
6 months ago

False, Related Companies was founded in 1972 and Perez founded the Related Group seven years later with the backing of the former.

Anonymous
6 months ago

iconic comment

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

Good the Brickell one is overcrowded

Anonymous
6 months ago

I am a bit confused on what the vision for Worldcenter is…

Anonymous
6 months ago

Like, is it going to look just like Brickell or have a soul of its own?

Anonymous
6 months ago

It would be lucky to look like Brickell, but will probably be a more common version, like what Midtown NYC is to the rest of Manhattan (but still far nicer cleaner and more tropical) since it’s a major transit hub.

Duh
6 months ago

It’s a high end mixed use neighborhood with retail.

Anonymous
6 months ago

So just like Brickell?

Anonymous
6 months ago

I mean yeah pretty much

Slim Shady
6 months ago

Not exactly.
Miami world center land was all assembled in about 10 years, planned, and the infrastructure was all developed by the same team, and the buildings are individually owned and will mostly complete in 2025.
Brickell took about 100 years to fill in.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Brickell was a developed neighborhood by the end of the 1920s Florida land boom. It just redeveloped vertically starting in the 1960s. MWC was industrial property assembled and demolished for a clean slate only relatively recently.

1000 Museum Resident
6 months ago

Indeed, never understood how such a well funded development group has failed tremendously.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not soul at all. As Brickell. A wannabe New York.

Anonymous
6 months ago

From the look at these new restaurants in New York with banana leaf prints, neon and [fake] plants, I’d think NY was a wannabe Brickell.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Down downtown?

Anonymous
6 months ago

This is perfect! It will add to consistent activation of Miami World Center.

Anonymous
6 months ago

How about opening a damn Starbucks??!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Not just Starbucks, this area deserves a Starbucks Reserve!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Frankly, I’ll be happy with a Starbucks. At this rate, we’ll end up with a damn Dunkin’ Donuts.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Yes to the Reserve but Starbucks really? There’s so many better coffee shops that could open here. How about Blue Bottle?

Slim Shady
6 months ago

Blue bottle pulled the plug on about 5 of the S. Florida stores.

Anonymous
6 months ago

They’re dumb then. But I’d give them another shot

Duh
6 months ago

I can’t wait to see this whole area come alive

Anon
6 months ago

i been asking for a LA fitness in Edgewater for years. I’ll settle for this one in park west, that’s close enough.

Yanno
6 months ago

Frequently there is a sign in front of Paramount saying parking is full, residents only. It is my understanding that parking lot is shared the world center lot. Where will all the cars fit? Or possibly I’m missing something.

Hopefully less cars are getting stolen from those lots as well as that was a major problem earlier this year at paramount.

One more lane bro
6 months ago

Make sure to drive 25 minutes for 5 blocks to go work out, there are 1100 spaces

Anonymous
6 months ago

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Anonymous
6 months ago

Only in America the gyms has parking spots. So ridiculous.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Sorry your governments don’t allow you to drive. You can leave if it bothers you 🇺🇸

Beguiled One
6 months ago

Why LA Fitness? Get us a Gold’s Gym.

Anonymous
6 months ago

𝓔𝓠𝓤𝓘𝓝𝓞𝓧 𝓦𝓞𝓡𝓛𝓓𝓒𝓔𝓝𝓣𝓔𝓡 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓼𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓰𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮…❤️

Anon
6 months ago

It’s not happening.

Anonymous
6 months ago

We were supposed to get Bloomingdale’s, and instead we’re get Bowlero and LA Fitness. Worldcenter? More like vertical Kendall.

Anonymous
6 months ago

and Maple & Ash, Etta, Tu Vecino, Lucid Motors, RayBan, Fenty x Savage, and much much much more

anonlatino
5 months ago

minus maple & ash the others sound really good.

MMN
6 months ago

Not what needs to be taking up the retail space. This plus the Lucid are giant detractors from what MWC could be as a destination.

Anonymous
6 months ago

And what is your vision?

MMN
6 months ago

How about we start with a coffee shop. Lucid does 0 for people that live downtown. This 40k gym does little to nothing. The gyms present in these buildings are nicer than an LA Fitness which is really barley above a plant fitness.

People that live downtown/MWC/Parkwest/Overtown need expanded softgood and f&b concepts.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Well, they started with a coffee shop. Laurel Brasserie opens next week… also a fancy restaurant will open right next to it from the same owner. LA Fitness is fine but yes, I hope Equinox will also open up soon. Lucid is ok, it’s in the corner of Paramount and it’s not that big of a space. Lots will follow, there is so much room for sooooo much more!

1000 Museum Resident
6 months ago

I just dont understand how the gyms expansion team thinks it is wise to open a fairly large gym when every single building in the near vacinity has gyms. It seems that the MWC team will sign leases as long as it is a large or reputal tenant. Desperate.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Tea.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Starbucks sells tea.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Every building in Brickell has a gym and yet you have, LA fitness, 2 Equinox and more…and they are all always packed.

Kayce
6 months ago

There is more to a gym than the building gym may offer. For example, I will drive 30 minutes for specific classes, like Zumba and yoga, with teachers that are outstanding.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Every gym in the buildings are literally for the people that do not workout regularly. They are all very limited in equipment and space.

MMN
6 months ago

Laurel Brasserie is NOT a coffee shop. it’s a restaurant that will serve frog legs. Also not the greatest first restaurant . Maple and Ash, if it’s still happening, is much better. Look at the demographics of the people coming and going from these new building nearby. They are not frog leg cuisine people. I’m fully standing by assessment MWC is squandering to date its retail footprint.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Read what he said. First coffee shop, then LB.

bruh
6 months ago

Starbucks is down the street

Downtown Vagabond
6 months ago

Those of us that live in MWC have been clamoring for a gym that is not PowerHouse. This is exactly what MWC needed and what everyone in my building has been buzzing about all day.

1000 Museum Resident
6 months ago

I mean Paramount is a fairly nice building but the residents are trash so maybe not the best subject for opinions.

Anonymous
6 months ago

More tea.

Anonymous
6 months ago

All the residents are trash in high rises. You got to move to a boutique building around 25 floors tops – you get all the same service and amenities but have less people to deal with and people are more respectful because they know each other.

Pepe
6 months ago

You have never worked out a day in your life if you think the building gym is a replacement for a real gym like an LA Fitness.

1000 Museum Resident
6 months ago

Prefer a Restoration Hardware or H and M.

1000 Museum Resident
6 months ago

Im sure for a more than substantial body work most of these byilding guys are sufficient. Why is it that in these gyms (e.g., la fitness, powerhouse) woman go fully with makeup and people are talking and looking themselves in the mirror half the time. These gyms spread the trash, you included.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Sounds like someone hates the way he looks in the mirror. Go to the arcade, I’m sure you’ll feel better about yourself.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Depends on how good the building gym is and what your use is.

Anonymous
6 months ago

How about a book store or pet store? Where are people supposed to buy books and shop for puppies… I’m being serious. We don’t have any stores like this lol

Anonymous
6 months ago

Nobody buys books anymore.

Anonymous
6 months ago

I said the same thing once and got twenty thumb down votes for it.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Yes of course they do, even if at the very least to fill up their book cases for zoom calls or put out on their coffee table. Plus they’re great places to meet other intellectually minded people. Have you not been to Books & Books?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Surprisingly, Barnes & Noble was one of the few outliers that actually thrived during the pandemic, although maybe not enough that they will start opening new stores again.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Every gym in Miami is overcrowded. It is exactly what is needed in an area where there is no fitness center (with the exception of Powerhouse that just opened).

Downtown Vagabond
6 months ago

Powerhouse is way too expensive and relatively small. This is perfect for the area.

Magazine
6 months ago

What? Powerhouse is huge, if anything, too big. Too expensive? It’s like $100 / month.

what U talken bout Willis?
6 months ago

Well then, if it doesn’t succeed, it will go out of business. I’m sure you’ve seen businesses fail everywhere you’ve been.. right?

1000 Museum Resident
6 months ago

The lease is probably guaranteed for the full term (10-Years) with no burn off.