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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Four Oz Fitness locations sold

Two Washington state business owners who have operated gyms in the Seattle area have purchased four Oz Fitness locations in Spokane and plan to spend more than $1 million to upgrade the facilities and training equipment. Jeff Carlson and Chip Schwerzel are taking over local Oz Fitness stores previously operated by owner Ian Riley. The four gyms are in downtown, north Spokane, the South Hill and Spokane Valley. Not part of the deal is the Airway Heights Oz Fitness franchise. For more than a decade the two operated 10 Vision Quest gyms in western Washington. Earlier this year they sold those 10 gyms to Fitness International, which operates LA Fitness facilities across the western United States. The profits from that sale were used for the Oz Fitness purchase; no terms of the sale were disclosed. In a news release, Carlson said, “Seattle was great, but Spokane is really our type of city: hard-working, blue-collar people that are proud of where they live.”
This story is developing and will be updated.