Salvation Army taking over shuttered Venice Books-A-Million

Naples/Fort Myers/Charlotte

Double dealing: A pair of commercial properties in Fort Myers have changed hands. The first is a 16,851-square-foot building at 4231 Colonial Blvd., which sold for $2.15 million. According to Lee County property records, the buyer is a Fort Myers LLC named Properties of S&O. The seller was a local investor who paid $1.7 million for it in 2005. The warehouse building sits on 2.39 acres, according to LoopNet. The second property is a 3,492-square foot building at 1629/1631 Hendry St. The buyer is a local investor who paid $1.14 million. The seller is a trust. The single-story downtown building was built in 1925 and sits between Main and Second streets. Fort Myers commercial real estate firm LSI Cos. brokered both deals.

Working out: Crunch Fitness is taking over two of three New York Sports Club gyms that are shutting down in Lee County and will invest $1 million to renovate the properties. The New York gym chain says Crunch will honor the memberships at the two locations — 1755 Boy Scout Dr. and 9375 6 Mile Cypress Parkway — and allow members of the third club —1140 Ceitus Terrace in Cape Coral — to work out at a nearby facility. NYSC notified the state of its intentions to close the three gyms in a letter last week stating that the closings would be effective Sept. 1. The existing members were notified at about the same time and told improvements are coming to the two clubs now under Crunch. Among those is adding new equipment. NYSC started in New York in 1973 and moved into the Florida market in 2019 when it bought Around the Clock Fitness. A spokesperson, in an email to the Business Observer, says “the most important message we’d like to get to the community is that our members will continue to be cared for and have all of their fitness needs met.”