Deb McQuillan started working at the Waterford Township Fit Zone for Women in June 2005.
Less than two years later, McQuillan has opened her own Fit Zone site, a 4,700-square-foot facility in a shopping center on Southfield Road.
“I had almost bought a Curves franchise at one point,” she said. “I started working at Fit Zone and decided that’s where I wanted to put my money.” She signed up more than 150 members in the first week and hopes to have 500 women on her roster by this time next year.
That’s the kind of success story Gretchen Shannon, Fit Zone founder, would like to see as her chain of fitness clubs for women grows from 29 locations to nearly 70 in the next 12 months.
“We have a fitness center that every woman would want to be a member of,” said Shannon, who started Fit Zone for Women in 2003. “It’s not a bare-bones facility like some of the other facilities. We have real equipment that gives women real results.
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