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The Sports Club/LA is a collection of large luxury health clubs located in Los Angeles and in several large city real estate projects in the United States.[1]

History

Company founders Michael Talla and Nanette Pattee Francini met as teenagers on Spring Break in Mexico in 1969, and later founded a bikini company, Foxy Lady.[2] They went on their own and pursued separate ventures, with Talla founding a raquetball gymnasium and Francini going on to become Miss Aspen and a Budweiser girl. Reuniting professionally, the couple opened the first of the company's health clubs in Santa Monica, California as "The Sports Connection", in 1979. The club became popular amongst Hollywood celebrities, and was the inspiration behind the 1985 John Travolta / Jamie Lee Curtis film, Perfect. In 1987 they opened the first of several larger clubs called the "Spectrum Club" and Sports Club/LA. They would later sell off the Spectrum and Sports Connection clubs to concentrate on Sports Club/LA. In 1994 the company went public as The Sports Club Co., and in 1995 opened the first of several clubs in New York City, initially called "Reebok Sports Clubs."[3]

In 2006 Sports Club/LA locations outside of Los Angeles were projects purchased by Millennium Partners, one of the company's original investors.[4] That year Millennium Partners created, Millennium Partners Sports Club Management LLC, to operate all of the Sports Club/LA clubs as well as Reebok Sports Club/NY.[4][5]

The company entered an exclusive partnership with the Life is good Playmakers who raise money for childcare professionals.[6] Sports Club/LA supports the annual Life is Good music festival and hosts fundraising events in the clubs throughout the year.

There are seven Sports Club/LA health clubs as of 2014.[7] These include: The Sports Club/LA complexes in Boston, Chestnut Hill, Miami, San Francisco, Washington D.C and New York's Upper East Side as well as Reebok Sports Club/NY.

References

  1. ^ George Epaminondas (2002-04-28). "Find Home, Sweet Home, At the New Haute Gym". New York Times.
  2. ^ Susan Reed (1987-11-30). "You Don't Need a Great Body at L.a.'s Cushiest Health Club, but a Big Name and Fat Wallet Help". People Magazine.
  3. ^ Heidi Feldman. "The Sports Club Company". Answers.com.
  4. ^ a b Sarah Duxbury (2007-09-16). "Sports Club/LA signs on to run Millennium gym". San Francisco Business Times. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dage= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "The Sports Club Co. Proposes Selling Six Clubs and Going Private". Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro. 2005-02-11.
  6. ^ "Life is good® and the Sports Club/LA Announce Partnership to Benefit the Life is good Playmakers". Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Sports Club/LA and Reebok Sports Club/NY Choose MALIN + GOETZ as New Amenities Partner". PR Newswire. Retrieved 16 September 2013.

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