One fitness center at Merrifield’s Mosaic District intends to close shortly after the start of the new year.
The LA Fitness gym located at 8190 Strawberry Lane will shutter next month, with its last day scheduled for Jan. 13, according to an email sent to members.
The email directs members to instead visit the brand’s nearby location at 2982 Gallows Road — formerly a Gold’s Gym — which sits just two-tenths of a mile down the road in the Fairfax Plaza shopping center with Great Wall and the thrift store Unique.
“Thank you for the privilege of being able to serve you,” LA Fitness said in its email to members. “We hope to be able to continue to assist you as you pursue your fitness goals.”
The gym at the Mosaic District previously operated as an XSport Fitness until LA’s parent company Fitness International acquired the smaller chain last year.
One member who alerted FFXnow to the impending closure says the former XSport Fitness has “languished” after LA Fitness bought the location, “with things not getting fixed.” The XSport Fitness sign has never been removed.
“I’m pissed, since XSport has nice big windows and Gold’s is a windowless cave. Also, the Gold’s is now going to be overrun with two gyms worth of people,” the gym member said by email, questioning why LA Fitness has been allowed to buy so many competitors.
FFXnow has reached out to LA Fitness for additional information.
Whether or not LA Fitness will remain a priority in the block remains unclear, with a heavy dose of competition among area fitness centers.
Even with that gym’s departure from the Mosaic District, three other fitness brands still remain in the shopping center: the boxing-focused BASH, plus Solidcore and F45, which both offer full fitness classes in under an hour.
The Mosaic District will soon also welcome Onelife Fitness, which anticipates opening a 53,000-square-foot fitness center in the former Custom Ink headquarters in the second half of 2026.
Current plans will see the gym offer an “extensive” weight-lifting area with Olympic lifting platforms and free weights, multiple athletic turf training areas and more.
“We are thrilled to anchor the vibrant energy, upscale shops, and diverse neighborhoods of Fairfax’s Mosaic District and to continue investing in Northern Virginia,” Onelife Fitness CEO Ori Gorfine said last month in a press release.
