On December 23, 2013, LA Fitness announced the acquisition of The Buffalo and Rochester Athletic Clubs in western New York. After careful consideration, the board of directors has made the decision to sell all the Lifestyle Family Fitness clubs in Florida to LA Fitness." According to Lifestyle CEO, Stuart Lasher, "we evaluated our option to remain an independent company or to sell to a larger organization. On July 2, 2012, the company completed the acquisition of all 33 Lifestyle Family Fitness Clubs in Florida. LA Fitness then began closing some former Bally Fitness clubs near existing LA Fitness facilities and remodeling others. On November 30, 2011, the company completed the acquisition of 171 clubs, for $153M, from Bally Total Fitness. In the 2009 Collier Township shooting, also referred to as the LA Fitness shooting because it took place in an LA Fitness health club in Collier Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, four people were killed. Within a year, all but one of the former Pure Fitness clubs were closed. In 2010, the company acquired ten locations in Phoenix from Pure Fitness Arizona. In 2007, the company expanded outside of the United States by acquiring six fitness clubs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Through the mid-1990s, the company expanded by acquiring under-performing fitness clubs in southern California, and by developing, opening and operating newly constructed properties. LA Fitness was founded in 1984 by founder Chinyol Yi and Louis Welch in Los Angeles, California. History LA Fitness in Markham, Ontario, Canada The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Irvine, California. LA Fitness is an American gym chain with more than 550 clubs across the United States and Canada.
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