It’s only been a year since Alex Bogusz opened Happy Hour Pilates, but she already has a second location in the works.
“I didn’t anticipate it to take off the way that it did. We’re running out of room,” Bogusz said of the existing location at 455 N. Walnut St.
Bogusz, who worked for a Pilates studio in Chatham before going out on her own last December, said she chose her current location “to accommodate as many people as possible, being centrally located, based on the business I had prior to that.”
She also liked the proximity to the two hospitals. “A lot of my clientele are people who work in health care,” Bogusz said.
But now, the freestanding 1,400-square-foot building is limiting her ability to grow.
“We typically have eight to 10 classes a day during the week and five or six on the weekends,” Bogusz said. “We have nine instructors. We’re in the process of hiring more instructors and a front desk receptionist.”
Happy Hour Pilates will soon offer classes at a west-side studio as well. Bogusz has signed a lease for a suite at 3259 Ginger Creek Drive, in the retail center that includes Vine & Rind and Potter Drug.
At 4,200 square feet, the new space is significantly larger than the current studio and Bogusz said she plans to offer reformer and mat classes at the west-side location. “We’ll have two studio rooms, new Pilates equipment and some things that are fun,” she said.
“We’ll keep the space we currently have as a reformer studio,” Bogusz said. “It’s good for us to branch out a little bit more.”
Construction is currently underway, with plans for the new studio to be open in January.