Powerhouse Gym this week unveiled a sign of its largest fitness center in the world at Partridge Creek Mall in Clinton Township.
The Michigan-based company, which has been around for 49 years, is putting the finishing touches to the renovated space formerly occupied by Carson’s department store at the mall on Hall Road (M-59).
A Powerhouse sign was attached to the two-story, 120,000-square-foot building at the east end. It generated immediate interest as numerous motorists stopped by observe the storefront’s new look.
“It looks so sleek,” one commentator said on social media.
In a statement, The Mall at Partridge Creek an exact opening date is not yet pinned down.
“We look forward to the largest Powerhouse Gym in the world opening at The Mall at Partridge Creek,” representatives of the shopping center said in a release.
The largest Powerhouse Gym in the world is scheduled to open at the Mall at Partridge Creek in Clinton Township in early 2026, a mall spokesperson said this week. (MITCH HOTTS — THE MACOMB DAILY)
“Construction is in full swing as the team works toward an opening date. Construction timelines can shift as projects evolve. Powerhouse is currently scheduled to open in winter 2026. The Powerhouse membership office is currently open and is actively enrolling members.”
Earlier estimates indicated the facility would open its doors in the first quarter of 2025.
The fitness chain expects to invest about $11 million into interior renovations and focus on providing a variety of fitness services to its members, William Dabish, Powerhouse co-founder told The Macomb Daily in 2023.
Members can expect amenities including a swimming pool, basketball court, yoga, cycling, dry sauna, a track, a spin room with nightclub-style lighting, personal trainers and fitness classes for all ages.
The addition of Powerhouse at the open-air mall on Hall Road (M-59) leaves it with one remaining anchor store vacancy in the former Nordstrom location. The company decided in June 2019 not to extend its lease as a number of well-known department store retailers found their brick-and-mortar formats being infringed on by digital retailers.
Clinton Township Supervisor Paul Gieleghem dropped some hints about plans for Nordstrom at his State of the Township address in October.
He said “it will be a development that is retail but there is an active active and involvement component to it. I think it’s going to be an experience for people, not just the shopping.”
Powerhouse is expected to generate additional foot traffic into the mall, as well as fill a hole in the struggling shopping center that has sat mostly vacant since Carson’s left in 2018.
