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Gyms and Trends 2020

Climbing Gyms and Trends 2020
The new Bayers Lake facility of Seven Bays Bouldering in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For the first time, bouldering gyms accounted for more than half of the new gym openings in North America in 2020. (Photo courtesy of Seven Bays Bouldering)

At the end of last year’s Gyms and Trends report, when talking about the handful of North American climbing gyms that had closed permanently in 2019, we—at CBJ—noted that the reasons for closures were largely property-related issues, including rising rent prices and lease disagreements. In other words, some gyms had fallen victim to unfortunate but rather standard and predictable factors when it came to operations.

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