Local gym chain Queen City Athletics plans to open a Bucksport location next month as its latest expansion. <\/p>\n
The site at 124 U.S. Route 1, which formerly housed a U.S. Cellular\u00a0store, will\u00a0become a space to work out with 24\/7 access, according to owner Shawn Demaray. He also plans to offer some personal training and strength conditioning, including for student athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a great location,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like there\u2019s a need for it there and it will do well.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s on track to open in May, and will be the company\u2019s fourth location following Veazie, Ellsworth and Hermon. Demaray said he\u2019s found a niche by opening in smaller towns with strong high school sports teams along major roads that don\u2019t have convenient access to a good gym. <\/p>\n
The 1,500-square-foot Bucksport site will be fully stocked with equipment including treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, a stair stepper, squat racks, a squat machine, other strength machines and free weights, along with functional equipment like resistance bands and medicine balls. It will offer a \u201clittle bit of everything,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Queen City Athletics\u2019 Veazie location is inside Eastern Maine Sports Academy and features indoor turf for training high school sports teams in speed and agility. A former all-conference UMaine football player and coach at area colleges, Demaray opened his first location in Veazie just over four years ago, offering personal training, fitness classes and athletic development<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some student training will also take place in Bucksport, according to Demaray, but it will primarily be a spot for members to work out. People with memberships will have access to all Queen City Athletics locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 24\/7 access, flexibility between locations and online membership purchasing all provide a convenience that customers respond to, Demaray has found. <\/p>\n \u201cThe number one thing people want is convenience when it comes to the gym,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n He\u2019s looking to continue expanding and is currently exploring locations including Dover, Lincoln and Millinocket. <\/p>\n Memberships can be purchased online as family, individual, senior or military packages for a week, a month, several months or a year. The business plans a pre-sale on memberships and a grand opening in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local gym chain Queen City Athletics plans to open a Bucksport location next month as its latest expansion.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[499,103,61,60,41349],"class_list":{"0":"post-387390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-surprise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}