St. Pete Catalyst<\/a>.<\/p>\nFlorida gets its first location. Dove stumbled upon the franchise while scrolling through social media and secured funding through a small business loan.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if I ever thought of myself as a gym owner, but then there was just a thought in my mind that went ‘why not me?'” she said. “I was able to figure out how to get a small business loan. Once the loan and funding were there, I felt super confident in it.”<\/p>\n
Members receive 8-week programmed workout cycles. Parents can drop off their kids in the child care area while they train.<\/p>\n
“I just had a lot of friends who weren’t able to continue working out once they had kids because they couldn’t get a nanny or a day care,” Dove said.<\/p>\n
Daniel and Tiarne Bova founded The Yard Gym in Australia back in 2020. Nike announced in May that the franchise will become the first Global Nike Training Partner \u2014 a big deal. The athletic company will make footwear, apparel, and accessories for all trainers, instructors, and team members.<\/p>\n
The two organizations will co-create training experiences, activations, and community events.<\/p>\n
Dove signed a lease in October 2025 after Hunger Thirst Group decided not to move forward with a summer camp-themed bar planned for the space. Renovation work included adding two showers, renovating two bathrooms, and rerouting plumbing. St. Petersburg-based design studio Form43 crafted concrete pieces for the lobby, including a front desk and hydration station.<\/p>\n
“I think when people come in, they’re going to see that it’s more than just a workout,” Dove said. “They are going to be able to form relationships for a lifetime and I hope that it pulls people out of some of their darkest days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg resident Taylor Dove will open a Yard Gym franchise location Saturday at 2060 1st Ave. S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-303652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}