The Sports Mall is celebrating their 50th anniversary and you'd think with all the advertising…read morethey're doing, that they'd clean up their facility and bring in some up to date equipment. This place has been the exact same for as long as I can remember. We've been customers off and on for more than two decades, and a majority of the machines are still the same. The treads are worn on lots of equipment which can be a hazard, some labels are torn off and illegible, some seats are stained with spray tan, some cracking.
We enjoy the classes that they offer as part of our membership. The trainers and class staff are inspiring, very helpful and friendly, supportive and kind.
Unfortunately parts of the facility smell bad and it's inexcusable IMO. For example, that hallway passing the racquetball hall smells absolutely putrid. I have yet to see or detect that the berber (carpeting!!!) has been sanitized, shampooed, or replaced... Men sit between matches, pouring their sweat onto the carpet. Barf. That hallway has earned the moniker "stinky hall" for a reason. It truly smells sharp and foul.
The fans in the weight room aren't sufficient for moving the stale air. Some days this summer, I've thought I was having hot flashes and feeling faint - come to find out, the room was nearly 80°! They don't seem to keep the thermostats maintained at reasonable temperatures. That's not acceptable.
Upstairs, it's dreary AF. It feels tired. It looks the same as it did in 2003. Same dreary fluorescent lighting, too. Absolutely nothing updated on the walls.
The locker rooms are generally kept up with lots of lockers for patrons. Unfortunately the wet area can get kinda gross. In the women's one, I've occasionally seen clumps of hair and bandaids left in the showers. I've gone into stalls only to find that the showers weren't working properly. Trickling low water pressure or non-adjustable scalding water!!
Without the cover, the pool area is decent in the summer. The space feels dilapidated the rest of the year with that holey and aging cover. You can tell that kids are peeing in the pool so they counterbalance it by treating it with lots of chemicals. I've only gone to the pool once this spring, and haven't been back since I ended up with an itchy scabby chemical burn on my shins. :(
I don't play on the tennis/pickleball courts, but they appear to be really snazzy. Seems that they're kept up and well maintained from the looks of them. Basketball court seems good too. The hallways to get to all these places are fluorescent lit and dreary. I wish they'd update their spaces to reflect the higher end clientele they're serving or trying to attract... They can write off the maintenance, so I don't agree with some of the replies left by management. They could make changes, they just don't seem to want to.
Alas, I still go here because it's quiet and the equipment/benches/bars are usually open throughout the day, the people generally keep their eyes to themselves and most are respectful, versus the bustling "meat market" gyms like EōS and Vasa...
They really need to refresh and clean up this place. Currently two stars.