Club Pilates fills final space in Helena commercial building

Owner Liz Maruca said the studio was expected to open in late July or early August, giving the buildout a clear timeline after months of work. The Helena site will be Maruca’s third Club Pilates studio in Montana, following locations in Bozeman and Billings. That expansion underscores how the brand, founded in San Diego in 2007, has grown into a network of more than 1,300 studios worldwide.

The Helena opening also showed how fitness is continuing to anchor parts of the city’s commercial growth. Club Pilates will join fast-casual restaurants in a corridor where daily traffic is already being pulled by multiple tenants rather than a single standalone business. Filling the last space in the building makes the project look less like a speculative shell and more like a completed retail cluster with a stable lineup of uses.

Inside the studio, the launch was still in its final training phase. Instructors were working through certification, a process that takes about six months, while teachers from Bozeman were expected to help cover classes in Helena. The schedule was set to include introductory 30-minute sessions for newcomers and more advanced classes for experienced members, giving the studio a range of options from the start.