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title: "Fairfax Times: Competitive swimmer plunges into Fairfax with Big Blue Swim School"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/ca8204ab-afc7-409f-85f3-d69440eeba06
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/fairfax-times-competitive-swimmer-plunges-into-fairfax-with-big-blue-swim-school-2710385
category: "Swim"
industry: "Education & Childcare"
segment: "Swim"
published: 2019-07-01T15:10:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:30:01.277Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/10b8681c1d43df8a17f173d1ae92bc0f3386.jpg
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# Fairfax Times: Competitive swimmer plunges into Fairfax with Big Blue Swim School

**TL;DR:** Big Blue Swim School opened its first Virginia location in Fairfax and plans to expand to five more locations in the state. The company expects to have 45 new locations by the end of 2019 and 150 locations by 2020.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-07-01. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/fairfax-times-competitive-swimmer-plunges-into-fairfax-with-big-blue-swim-school-2710385).*

## Story

Big Blue Swim School’s first Virginia location is coming to the Greenbriar Town Center on Lee Jackson Memorial Highway in Fairfax, according to the Fairfax Times. The lease was signed in June and the location is anticipated to open in 2020.

Big Blue Swim School is looking to bring five more locations to Virginia over the next two to three years. The company expects to have 45 new locations by the end of 2019 and 150 locations by 2020 in markets such as Florida, Texas, Southern California, Denver, Charlotte, Northern New Jersey, Georgia and Washington, D.C.

“Families are in need of this type of service,” said Scott Thompson, Chief Development Officer, as reported by the Fairfax Times. “They want a clean, efficient way to help their children learn to swim, and they don't want to have to think or work too hard to make it happen. It just fits in their lifestyles.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- unit expansion (topic)
- Education & Childcare (sector)
- location growth (topic)
- Big Blue Swim School (company)
- Scott Thompson (person)
- swim school (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/fairfax-times-competitive-swimmer-plunges-into-fairfax-with-big-blue-swim-school-2710385). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/ca8204ab-afc7-409f-85f3-d69440eeba06).