Fitness-center owners buy former home of Orchards Athletic Club

LOVELAND — The owners of the Fort Collins Club, a fitness center and health club in Fort Collins, have acquired a building in Loveland that once was home to the Orchards Athletic Club.

Todd Heenan, a minority owner in the Fort Collins Club and the new entity that purchased the building in Loveland, said plans are underway for a significant renovation of the building, with hopes of opening a health club there in 2018.

“It’s a pretty dilapidated building,” Heenan said, who is meeting with an architect Thursday to begin developing plans.

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