AREA FIT FOR PURPOSE

A COUPLE have secured the first studio of its kind in Brisbane in an inner city location with a ready-made clientele.

The owners of three F45 franchises, Nina and Andrew Woodhouse, have a five-year lease on the ground floor at 26 Commercial Rd, Newstead, for the new concept FS8 – a combination of reformer and mat pilates, yoga and full body tone within a 45-minute group training class.

It is franchisor F45’s flagship Brisbane studio for the new concept with another five in Australia including one in Noosa.

Nina Woodhouse said their search for a 200sq m square shaped space in Newstead was “challenging”.

“We looked at a few spaces in the area and this one was the one that we thought would work really well. We just needed to move a wall to make the space suitable,” she said.

After an extensive makeover they moved into the 396sq m tenancy which was previously occupied by property agency Blue Commercial.

They will pay between $420/sq m and $500sq m in the deal struck by Your Commercial’s Jayde Mavrik.

Ms Woodhouse said they have had an F45 studio in Newstead and believed suburb was ripe for the FS8 concept.

“We’ve been in Newstead for six years and we’ve done a lot of research into the area,” she said.

“We needed to be in a central area to appeal to the market because parking here is terrible. It will be a lot easier for people to stay committed to their goals and accountable who don’t have to worry about parking to try to get to the studio which take a lot stress out of it.”

Ms Mavrik said the Woodhouses completed a full refurbishment of the old office which included installing state-of-the-art equipment, bathrooms, change rooms and blow bar.