LA Fitness to open at Elmwood and Hertel Center

You neglected to mention the large parking lot. We must organize a boycott.

You can save the monthly membership $ and instead walk from your parking spot to the door and burn a few thousand calories in the 2-3 hours it would take.

Irondequoit and Henrietta are "Greater Buffalo"?

It is a gym and will have like 10,000 members. they NEED a big parking lot. besides, it is on arguably one of the ugliest stretches of Elmwood there is... lol a boycott. maybe you should organize a boycott of the vacant dickies donughts that has been gracing the corner of elmwood and hertel for the past 15 years.

Wait...Dickies has been vacant for 15 years now?

That Dickies has literally been there since I can remember. One day, I was waiting for the bus to go home when I worked at Kinkos and I went in and got a donut. It was like I was transported to a truck stop coffee shop in Kentucky. And it was the worst donut I have ever had.

Save your money and join the JCC.

I am not one for big box chains, but it is good to see something happen on this parcel.

And don't forget about the new Autozone that is opening in the old Don Pablos building. Another empty building gone occupied.

If you want to improve the intersection/corner of Hertel and Elmwood buy the land to make a third turning lane for Elmwood and Hertel. I do everything possible to avoid the traffic a couple of times a day.

it would be nice to get some politicos off their asses to get the corner of Elmwood nad Hertel out of Frank Denny's hands. This unsightly corner of vacant land has been even before Dickies went out of business..home to some abandoned cars, hucksters who set up shop to compete with taxpaying small business owners.
He apparently would rather sit on this busy intersection piece of property than see a prosperous business developed there...politics with / during Maiello's mayoral stint stopped the new firehouse from being built here, and instead at the closed in tight location where Mc Donalds once stood.
Seems Rocco Termini has his eye on the defunct FWS warehouse building just down the street...more lofts??

Great addition to this part of the city. I belong to LA Fitness in Minneapolis and can speak first hand to what a well run operation it is. My fees are $25 per month, which is a deal for everything they offer. I believe there is an initial fee as well, but considering you can use any club in the country... Well worth it!!!

Anyone that complains about this addition is probably one of the obese individuals chain smoking cigarettes waiting for a bus that is all too common.

I hope people support this!!

I think it would've been wise for them to front the street if the parcel allowed, with parking in the back. It seems like they chose being barely visible over the in your face exposure that being close to the street would provide. Corporate conventions, maybe.

I would be very frustrated about this story were it not for the fact that with BR, I know what to expect, schizophrenia! At least the sex shop is LOCAL...

"Anyone that complains about this addition is probably one of the obese individuals chain smoking cigarettes waiting for a bus that is all too common. "

That's a pretty stupid comment.

Exercising is a little mainstream and cliche. "Is PBR organic?"

I wonder if Benderson actually paid the fine for demolishing the historic Kittinger building without a permit.

I was quite offended a month or so ago when I discovered LA Fitness's "unique" advertising strategy. Someone had driven down my block (and a couple other adjacent blocks) and thrown onto everyone's lawns little plastic baggies weighted with sand and containing a paper flyer for this new location.

I am confident that advertising by random littering is illegal, and all it did for me was guarantee that I will never go to LA Fitness.