Solidcore is bringing its resistance-machine workouts to Upper Arlington, staking out space in the former Bed Bath & Beyond box at The Shops on Lane Avenue alongside a pizza restaurant and a wellness center. The high-intensity, low-impact fitness studio will occupy part of the roughly 20,000-square-foot footprint left vacant after the home goods chain's 2023 closure, giving the brand another Columbus-area presence as the shopping center reshapes itself around dining, retail, and wellness.
The move was first reported by WhatNow, which noted that Solidcore will share the redeveloped space with Piccolo Buco and Pause as new occupants. WhatNow Columbus reached out to Solidcore for details on the upcoming location but had received no response at the time of publication. Piccolo Buco, a Neapolitan-style pizza concept developed by Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurants, is opening its first Ohio location as part of the same subdivided space, according to earlier Hoodline reporting. Pause, meanwhile, is described in the same report as a wellness center rounding out the trio of new tenants.
A Former Big-Box Anchor Gets Carved Up
The former Bed Bath & Beyond store closed following the retailer's bankruptcy, part of a nationwide Chapter 11 filing in April 2023 that liquidated roughly 360 namesake stores and freed up large-box retail space across the country, per background compiled by WhatNow. In the interim, the space saw temporary use including a Spirit Halloween location before landlord Kimco Realty began renovations ahead of permanent tenants. The former Bed Bath & Beyond footprint is now being divided to accommodate multiple new tenants rather than a single big-box replacement, a strategy landlords nationwide have increasingly leaned on as they split 20,000-plus-square-foot vacancies into smaller boutique spaces.
Solidcore's workouts center on resistance-based fitness classes built around proprietary reformer machines, with 50-minute sessions designed to fatigue slow-twitch muscle fibers rather than deliver traditional cardio. Founded in Washington, D.C. in 2013 and acquired by private equity firm Kohlberg & Company in 2023, the company has grown to more than 150 studios nationwide, with annual revenue climbing from $10 million to over $200 million by 2025 under CEO Bryan Myers, according to Westfair Communications. Single-class drop-in rates have exceeded $37 in major metropolitan markets, per Revenue Brew. Hoodline previously covered a similar Solidcore expansion into a long-vacant storefront in another market.
Joining an Already Crowded Wellness Lineup
Solidcore is joining a growing roster of new businesses coming to The Shops on Lane Avenue, entering a shopping center that already houses fitness and wellness tenants including Barre3, CycleBar, Athleta, Ulta Beauty, and Carbon Health, according to a Colliers property filing. Spray tan salon GoGlow is also slated to join the center, adding another beauty-focused tenant to the mix. The shopping center is expanding its overall mix of retail, dining, wellness and fitness offerings, with fast-casual chain CAVA also planning a location there.
The redevelopment push extends beyond fitness. Anthropologie is developing a roughly 9,000-square-foot store at the shopping center that will include the Anthropologie Weddings bridal concept, as Hoodline reported a day before the Solidcore news broke. Café concept Fox in the Snow has also recently landed along the same Lane Avenue corridor, part of a broader wave of new business growth in Upper Arlington that Hoodline has been tracking throughout the summer.
An Affluent, High-Traffic Corridor
The Shops on Lane Avenue sits at 1675 W Lane Ave in Upper Arlington, less than a mile west of State Route 315 and under two miles from Ohio State University's main campus, according to a Colliers filing on the property. West Lane Avenue itself carries more than 28,000 vehicles a day, the same filing shows, putting the center on one of the area's busiest commercial corridors. Kimco Realty, which took over the property in its roughly $2 billion all-stock acquisition of RPT Realty in 2024, estimates the average household income within a one-mile radius at $210,370, with more than 142,000 residents living within three miles.
That affluent trade area has helped make the center's Whole Foods Market anchor one of the busiest in the state; foot-traffic analytics from Placer.ai cited by Kimco Realty ranked the store fourth in total customer visits among all 10 Whole Foods locations in Ohio during 2025. The property has reinvented itself before: originally built in 1952 as an open-air retail complex, it was enclosed in the late 1970s as the indoor Lane Avenue Mall before being converted back into an open-air lifestyle center in 2004, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The addition of Solidcore, Piccolo Buco, and Pause marks the latest chapter in that decades-long cycle of reinvention.
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