New gym to grandfather in Peak Fitness' Elliott Road contracts

Peak Fitness customers whose Chapel Hill gym is closing this month will be able to transfer their memberships to a second club in town that is being sold, that club’s new owner said Friday.

Laura Haid, vice president of operations for Peak, said the company’s Elliott Road gym in Chapel Hill will close by July 1.

The Farrington Road club, also in Chapel Hill, is being sold to Chris Zoubek, who ran it when it was Millennium Health & Fitness.

Zoubek plans to honor Peak’s Elliott Road contracts for the rest of their term. After that, he said, former Peak members can join the Farrington Road club like anyone else. The gym will offer month-to-month memberships, now $24.99 a month. The arrangement “keeps us accountable,” Zoubek said. “I want to make sure people want to stay here as opposed to being stuck in a contract.”

Peak plans to continue running its nearby U.S. 15-501 club in Durham, though Haid said that could change.

Zoubek said he would like to work out a deal where members could use all three gyms, as some currently do on their Peak memberships.