Anaheim / North Orange County
The fitness operators we could confirm in Anaheim are concentrated in Anaheim Hills. Santa Ana Canyon Road carries 24 Hour Fitness, Orangetheory, HOTWORX, StretchLab and a taekwondo school at Anaheim Hills Festival and LA Fitness at 5757, and Club Pilates is a short drive east on Weir Canyon Road. We did not confirm a chain gym or boutique studio in the flatland corridors or resort-area centers from the brands' own pages, so the flatlands are less proven for boutique fitness than Anaheim Hills rather than proven empty.
Population
344,521
Median HHI
$95,227
Median age
36.2
Homeownership
46.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
Primary retail corridors
Harbor Boulevard · Lincoln Avenue · Euclid Street · Katella Avenue · Ball Road · State College Boulevard · Imperial Highway
Specific shopping centers in Anaheim that already carry credible co-tenancy for this use. Listed in approximate order of fit.
8020 East Santa Ana Canyon Road
Anchors / key tenants: Target, Nordstrom Rack, Hobby Lobby, 24 Hour Fitness, ULTA
Anaheim Hills’ affluent suburban center — different trade area than the rest of Anaheim. Target, Nordstrom Rack and Hobby Lobby anchor the center, with casual dining, fitness, and family-service retail. The former Edwards theater closed in 2022 and that part of the site is approved for apartments.
Existing operators are the most honest comp for whether a use can support Anaheim rents. These are publicly visible fitness space businesses currently trading in the market.
24 Hour Fitness (Anaheim Hills Festival)
Anaheim Hills Festival, Santa Ana Canyon Road, Anaheim Hills, CA
Listed on the center directory (phone 714-637-4262, 24 Hour Fitness club 00195), and named on the owner's redevelopment site among the tenants that 'aren't planning on going anywhere'.
Orangetheory, HOTWORX, StretchLab and Taekwondo Family Fitness (Anaheim Hills Festival)
Anaheim Hills Festival, Santa Ana Canyon Road, Anaheim Hills, CA
All four are on the Festival directory: Orangetheory (heart-rate interval classes), HOTWORX (infrared sauna workouts, studio page 'anaheim-anaheimhillsfestival'), StretchLab (assisted stretching) and Taekwondo Family Fitness (Black Belt World, martial arts). With 24 Hour Fitness that is five fitness users in one center, so exclusives and radius clauses are worth reading closely.
LA Fitness Anaheim Hills
5757 Santa Ana Canyon Rd, Anaheim Hills, CA 92807
The only Anaheim-area club on LA Fitness's California club list, west of the Festival on the same road.
Club Pilates Anaheim Hills
701 S. Weir Canyon Rd, Suite 117, Anaheim, CA 92808
Address from Club Pilates' own studio page. A small-suite boutique studio in the Weir Canyon Road part of Anaheim Hills.
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Size threshold: 18.36.040 splits Dance and Fitness Studios at 4,000 sq ft of gross floor area, and both classes include health clubs and general fitness training. Table 8-A (18.08.030) permits the small class in all five commercial zones, but the large class (4,000 sq ft or more) is prohibited in the C-NC Neighborhood Center zone and permitted in C-R, C-G, O-L and O-H (accessory to an office building in O-H). A 6,000 sq ft gym cannot go into a C-NC center at all.
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Parking is not the obstacle here: Table 42-A (18.42.040) parks both Dance and Fitness Studio classes at 4 spaces per 1,000 sq ft, the same rate as Retail Sales-General and the rate inside a Commercial Retail Center-Large. A 20,000 sq ft gym backfilling a retail box needs 80 spaces either way, so a gym does not raise the parking requirement for a former retail space.
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Entertainment-style concepts: Recreation-Commercial Indoor (arcades, bowling, family fun centers, bounce houses and other indoor amusement not listed elsewhere) needs a conditional use permit in every commercial zone, decided by the Planning Commission (18.66.040). Its parking is set by type (5 spaces per racquetball court, 2.4 per 1,000 sq ft for skating rinks) or by a parking demand study under 18.42.040.010.0108 for other uses. A climbing, trampoline or pickleball concept should get its use class from Planning in writing first.
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Noise and operations: 18.08.030.120 requires commercial uses to operate wholly within a building and not be objectionable by noise, vibration or similar causes. There is no fitness-specific hours rule in Table 8-A, so the practical limit is the lease and the neighbors. For dropped weights or amplified classes in an inline suite, ask the landlord about the slab and demising wall construction before you sign.
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Anaheim Hills Festival rules: Festival Specific Plan No. 90-1 (18.108, Table 108-B) permits both studio classes in DA-1, DA-2, DA-3 and DA-5 and prohibits them in DA-4, and Recreation-Commercial Indoor is permitted in DA-1, DA-2 and DA-5, conditional in DA-4 and prohibited in DA-3. Confirm the development area of the building you are touring. The owner's site also says roughly 450 apartments are proposed on the vacant Regal Cinema site, which would add residents within walking distance of the center's gyms.
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Beach Boulevard corridor: under the Beach Boulevard Specific Plan (18.122, Table 122-B), large studios are permitted in the MU-M, MU-H, N-C, R-C and O areas and need a CUP in S-P and P-R. That matters for 39 Commons, where the City reports a second phase with a grocery store and more retail.
Zoning, licensing, and demographic figures on this page come from the public records below. Codes and licenses change, so confirm with the city and the licensing agency before you sign.