Business Bulletin

Compound Gym at Harbor Place Opens for Free Preview Classes This Sunday

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Harbor Place’s newest neighbor The Compound is ready to pump up Haverhill—and the gym is opening for business Sunday with all group fitness classes that day taking place free of charge. Owned and operated by Haverhill’s Anthony Ruiz and Lawrence’s Oscar Moscat, The Compound, occupies the 6,400-square foot space underneath The Harbor Place Residences. As the co-owners tell WHAV, custom gym equipment is being shipped from Lithuania as interior renovations are completed, and a formal grand opening is in the works for later this spring. Prioritizing both the mental and physical aspects of fitness, The Compound is a niche gym, Moscat tells WHAV. “The Compound is basically an environment for everyone who loves weightlifting and fitness but doesn’t like the distractions that come with that,” Moscat said.

Going Out

Methuen Chick-fil-A Plans Thursday Opening, Free Year of Food for 100 Fans

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The Merrimack Valley’s very first Chick-fil-A restaurant, under the leadership of Grant Stoffel, opens this week at 73 Pleasant Valley St. (Courtesy photographs)

Merrimack Valley foodies, here’s news to cluck about: The area’s first Chick-fil-A fast food location officially opens for business on Thursday—with owner Grant Stoffel giving away a year of free meals to 100 lucky fans. Located near Target on Pleasant Valley Street—a stone’s throw from The LOOP shopping complex—the 5,000 square-foot free-standing restaurant features seating for 116 and a two-lane drive thru, Stoffel tells WHAV. With the company since 2005, Beverly’s Stoffel comes to Methuen after seven years as head of the Northshore Mall location in Peabody. The business owner—who became one of the company’s youngest-ever franchisees at 23—tells WHAV he’s most excited to offer Merrimack Valley locals healthy, fresh food and a new standard of service—with a smile.

Going Out

150-Flavor Bruster’s Ice Cream Opening First Store at Haverhill’s 130 Main St.

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Rohan Patel owns and operates the Bruster’s ice cream shop at 130 Main St., in Haverhill. (WHAV News photograph)

I scream, you scream, well … Haverhill’s foodies know the rest! Pittsburgh ice cream chain Bruster’s Real Ice Cream is getting ready to make its mark on the Haverhill restaurant scene, with the opening of the company’s very first local scoop shop at 130 Main St., in the plaza across from G.A.R. Park and City Hall. Counting Domino’s among its neighbors, Bruster’s is owned and operated locally by Nashua, N.H.-based franchisee Rohan Patel. Acting as the store’s general manager, Patel told WHAV he anticipates opening for business the first week of December, with a 24-flavor menu of hard ice cream, cakes and other frozen novelties available through walk-up counter service.