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title: "Crunch Franchise Brings Fourth State-of-the-Art Crunch 3.0 Gym to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/439fa23d-7c52-4651-acaa-71637ad2ff99
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20260603_crunch_franchise_brings_fourth_stateoftheart_crunch_30_gym_to_the_minneapol.html
category: "Gym & HVLP"
industry: "Fitness"
segment: "Gym & HVLP"
published: 2026-06-03T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-10-31T16:11:00.173Z
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# Crunch Franchise Brings Fourth State-of-the-Art Crunch 3.0 Gym to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

**TL;DR:** Crunch Fitness has opened a $6 million gym in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, featuring its new Crunch 3.0 design and various amenities. The gym, Crunch St. Paul Highland Park, is operated by franchisee The Undefeated Tribe.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2026-06-03. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20260603_crunch_franchise_brings_fourth_stateoftheart_crunch_30_gym_to_the_minneapol.html).*

## Story

Crunch St. Paul Highland Park will feature the new Crunch 3.0 design, combining modern aesthetics with enhanced functionality to deliver an upgraded fitness experience. Fusing fitness with entertainment to make serious exercise fun, Crunch St. Paul Highland Park will offer:

- Expanded strength and functional training areas

- Top-quality cardio and strength training equipment

- Power half-hour circuit training

- Personal training

- Olympic lifting platforms

- Group Fitness studio with Crunch's world-famous group fitness classes

- Hot Yoga Studio

- Ride cycling classes

- Functional HIITZone™ training area with indoor turf

- Advanced HIIT classes

- TRX®

- Relax & Recover® services including HydroMassage& beds, red light therapy

- Tanning

- Kids Crunch babysitting

- Full-service locker rooms with showers and a sauna

Crunch St. Paul Highland Park is operated by Crunch Fitness franchisee The Undefeated Tribe.

"We are so excited to bring the Crunch Fitness brand to St. Paul and offer outstanding and affordable fitness," said Tony Hartl, Founder and CEO of The Undefeated Tribe. "With world-class-equipment and amenities, round-the-clock hours and memberships that start at $9.99 per month, we can't wait to open our doors to St. Paul residents."

Crunch was top in the fitness category and top overall in the Entrepreneur Franchise 500®. The brand has appeared on the list for 13 consecutive years and was inducted into the 2026 Hall of Fame and Consecutive Ranking Club. Crunch was also recognized on the annual Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing companies. It continues to expand nationwide and push the bar with innovative offerings for its members.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- Fitness (sector)
- new location (topic)
- Crunch Fitness (company)
- gym expansion (topic)
- fitness franchise (topic)
- Undefeated Tribe (company)
- Tony Hartl (person)
- Minneapolis-St. Paul (location)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20260603_crunch_franchise_brings_fourth_stateoftheart_crunch_30_gym_to_the_minneapol.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/439fa23d-7c52-4651-acaa-71637ad2ff99).