Chilliwack Landing Sports Centre

Sports centres and gyms are not quite the same listing, though the two overlap enough that the line between them gets blurred. What they have in common is floor space, and floor space is the constraint that shapes this whole category in Chilliwack. Most of the independent operators here have solved it by taking industrial units behind Sardis, where the ceilings are high and the rent is not, or by working around the columns in older commercial buildings. A city of roughly 112,500 people that grew 11.6 per cent in five years generates more demand than it has obvious buildings to put it in.

The category is in better health here than the size of the city would suggest. National chains are excluded from this directory, which leaves independent gyms, strength and conditioning rooms, boxing and martial arts clubs and a run of smaller studios. Part of the demand comes from Canada Education Park at the south end, where the university, the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre and the Justice Institute of BC put a lot of people who train seriously into one part of the city. Municipal leisure centres are listed separately.