The fast-growing San Diego business club that is filing lawsuits against the county over COVID-19 restrictions has just added another 25 members.
Last week, 25 gyms filed a lawsuit against San Diego for the right to reopen. According to the order of residence in the state and the restrictions of the purple layer that followed, the academies are not allowed to operate indoors.
Gyms like the Boxing Club in the East Village, which sell themselves as luxury venues for training and wellness experiences – there is even a chandelier hanging over the boxing ring.
“It’s really hard to sell luxury when you’re working out in a parking lot,” Artem Sharoshkin, CEO of Boxing Club, told NBC 7.
In March, like many fitness center owners across the county, Sharoshkin closed for months.
“At the beginning, they said we were literally putting people’s lives at risk,” Sharoshkin recalled.
But now, nine months after the pandemic started, Sharoshkin struggles to understand why his nearly $ 2 million facility needs to remain empty.
“I can’t tell you a week when we don’t think, ‘Are we going to spend this month?’ “Sharoshkin said.
Now, the Boxing Club is among the 25 gyms that are suing the municipality in a new lawsuit.
“That’s enough,” said one of the lawyers representing the academies, Charlotte Najar. “You need to resign and stop interfering in allowing gym owners to run their businesses.”
Najar said that at this point, closing gyms and allowing retailers to remain open is not just arbitrary, it is unfounded by the county’s own metrics.
“We are saying no,” Najar said. “We are not going to allow gyms to open. But are we going to allow liquor stores and tobacconists to open? “
Between June and December, the county reported more than 118,000 positive cases of COVID-19. After they were reported, county officials interviewed more than 68,000 people who contracted the virus and screened for possible exposures in the community.
Academies are possibly linked to 277 cases, or 0.4%, of potential exposures. Compare that with retail, which was linked to more than 6,300 exhibitions, or 9.2%. Workplaces claimed the highest possible exposures, with more than 22,600 positive cases.
“Now that we have the clear evidence that supports what we believed to begin with, we have to reopen the academies,” said Sharoshkin.
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- Performance 360
- TITLE Boxing Club
- F45 Bressi Ranch
- Self-made training center
- Grinder Gym
- Crossfit PB
- San Diego strength and well-being
- PMSI, doing business like APEX School of Movement, San Diego
- Brainstorm Fitness
- Kickforce
- ACTS Jiu-Jitsu
- Carlsbad Kick Boxing
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- F-Max Fitness, SP
- Hardcore Fitness
- 10th Planet San Diego Jiu Jitsu
- The Boxing Club Sport & Fitness
- Powerful Pilates,
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- F45 La Jolla
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