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Infinity Personal Training to join Parkside at Dolly Ridge

Infinity Personal Training to join Parkside at Dolly Ridge

An Auburn-based personal training service will soon join a mixed-use development.
Auburn-based Infinity Personal Training will open its third Alabama location, and this one is in the metro area.
The fitness studio and personal training service inked a lease for 1,246 square feet in Parkside at Dolly Ridge, located at 4317 Dolly Ridge Road in Cahaba Heights.
Infinity Personal Training offers customized fitness solutions through on-on-one personal training and group training. It has two locations in the Auburn area.
The lease brings Parkside at Dolly Ridge to 100% occupancy, roughly three years after lead tenant Grandview Medical Group Primary Care opened in the 14,935-square-foot mixed-use development. Other tenants include Kares Salon, BODYBAR Pilates, Atlanta-based contrast therapy chain SWTHZ and Nashville-based brunch concept Biscuit Love.
Harbert Retail's Casey Howard and Thomas Hickman represented both the landlord and tenant in the deal.
Hickman, using his company Dolly Ridge Development, bought the 1.1-acre site in 2019 before he joined Harbert Realty. In 2021, Dolly Ridge Development sold the property to Dolly Ridge Holdings LLC, which is associated with Harbert Realty.
Infinity is not the only fitness business opening in the metro. Fitness studio True40 plans to open its sixth metro location in the Trussville Entertainment District this week.
Virginia-based gym chain Onelife Fitness is blitzing Alabama with plans for six new locations in the works. The first, located in the former JCPenney space at Tannehill Promenade in McCalla, represents a $10 million investment.
The choice of location for Onelife's second Alabama gym made waves, as it is planned for the 68,000-square-foot former AMC Classic Lee Branch 15 movie theater at 801 Doug Baker Blvd. along the U.S. Highway 280 corridor.
Onelife will renovate the 21-year-old theater, which suddenly closed in March, through a $14 million investment.

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