{"id":293959,"date":"2026-04-30T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:12:07","slug":"large-gym-chain-to-close-long-beach-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293959\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Gym Chain To Close Long Beach Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 LA Fitness has announced that one of its locations in the Long Beach area is closing soon.<\/p>\n<p>According to a notice posted at the LA Fitness facility at 2180 N. Bellflower Blvd. in Long Beach, just south of Stearns Street, that gym will be permanently close on May 25 at 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that time, your access will expand to include all of our LA Fitness locations nationwide,&#8221; the notice states.<\/p>\n<p>No reason has been given for the closure, but Patch has reached out to LA Fitness&#8217; corporate offices for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest LA Fitness to the soon-to-close Bellflower location is the facility at 4438 E. Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach, near the Traffic Circle.<\/p>\n<p>That club has recently been remodeled and has new workout equipment, refurbished saunas and new paint and flooring, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>The Bellflower Boulevard location&#8217;s closure is the latest in a string of LA Fitness gym closures across the U.S. this year, including Texas, Ohio, Virginia and Minnesota, among other places.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons for the closures have varied, with some due to landlord disputes, declining memberships and consolidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 LA Fitness has announced that one of its locations in the Long Beach area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-293959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}