{"id":387374,"date":"2026-01-24T04:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:53:20","slug":"best-buy-preps-shutdown-in-san-jose-ahead-of-fitness-center-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387374\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy preps shutdown in San Jose ahead of fitness center opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 The Best Buy store at Santana Row in San Jose is preparing to close its doors and eliminate dozens of jobs as a fitness center gets ready to take over the space.<\/p>\n<p>The retail store\u2019s closure is expected to eliminate 60 jobs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/06\/05\/san-jose-santana-row-fitness-health-athletic-economy-property-build\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 3090 Stevens Creek Blvd. location<\/a>, according to an official notice the company sent to the state Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts are scheduled to take effect around March 17, the WARN notice shows. The layoffs are permanent because the store is closing.<\/p>\n<p>At least some of the 60 affected employees will have the opportunity to land jobs at another Best Buy location, according to the WARN notice.<\/p>\n<p>Life Time, a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lifetime.life\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">company that describes itself<\/a> as an \u201cathletic country club,\u201d has already signed a lease to occupy the space that Best Buy will vacate.<\/p>\n<p>The building totals 60,000 square feet and is two stories, according to Property Shark. The initial term of the lease is 15 years, Santa Clara County public documents show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSantana Row is a great location,\u201d Meghan Akradi, a vice president of real estate with Life Time, said during a June 2025 interview with this news organization. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to do better than Santana Row in terms of iconic properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The future San Jose location is expected to feature an array of amenities, according to Life Time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have great fitness areas, fitness studios, personal training sites, yoga, pilates, cafe, work lounges, a sauna, and hot tubs,\u201d Akradi said. \u201cWe will have a kids\u2019 academy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 The Best Buy store at Santana Row in San Jose is preparing to close its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[97803,84,776,42865,8063,1294,6647,102,1371,2739,50,4655,146232,142234,142235,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-development","tag-economy","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-jobs","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-real-estate","tag-san-jose","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}