Snap Fitness, a franchise business that started in Minneapolis in 2003, will soon be moving into Dearborn.

Snap Fitness is moving into the former Boston Market building on Telegraph, just north of Cherry Hill in Dearborn.

The building at 136 north Telegraph Road that once housed a Boston Market is in the process of being transformed into a fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment that members can access 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Snap Fitness which launched in just 2003, today has more than 2,000 locations and some 400,000 members globally. The fitness center’s recipe for success appears to be taking the most readily used health equipment and putting it into smaller, passcard-secure locations with affordable membership pricing. Inc. Magazine’s  annual survey of fast growing companies listed Snap Fitness as the second-highest concept in the health category. Overall, Snap Fitness was one of the top 20 fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S., according to Inc.

The remodeling of the former Boston Market, located just north of Cherry Hill, is underway but temporarily came to a halt Tuesday, Dec. 1, when Dearborn city inspectors issued a stop-work order. City officials told us the stop work order was issued because remodeling work was being done inside the building without a permit. Gutting the building does not require a permit but once work begins on remodeling one is required.

Once the permit is issued, work on the inside of the building will continue. The Snap Fitness website lists the new Dearborn location but not yet a date for its official opening.

It is nice to see some new retail move into Dearborn. We welcome the new business owners to the neighborhood and wish them the best of luck.