The Athletic Club is proposing to move out of its current location on Washington Street to a new purpose built health and wellness centre on Wesley Street that will give it double the space.

The move will not only increase the club's size to 15,000 square feet, it will also mean the club will own its premises rather than rent it as it does currently.

The site on Park Road and Wesley Street in Hamilton currently houses a multi-storey building which is home to a hair salon, deli and three other independent businesses.

Wellness and planning communications director Jacqueline Teunissen said that while the company was hoping to begin construction in the autumn, the whole project has just entered the planning phase.

As part of that planning, The Athletic Club has launched an online survey to get input from its members and the general public about what they would like to see in a new health and wellness facility.

"Once we have analysed the results of our online survey, we will begin the planning stages for Bermuda's first public purpose built wellness facility," said Ms Teunissen adding that they will use survey responses to plan the space, amenities and services.

"A lot of residents might travel abroad and have seen different services that we might not have even thought of such as different types of yoga classes, different stress management programmes," she said. "We anticipate doubling our space so we will have lots of room for new members but also we want to make more services available such as a separate mind body studio and a separate spin studio so we will have more amenities at the new facility."

As incentive to offer input, The Athletic Club is offering survey participants the chance at 101 prizes valued at over $25,000, including a $5,000 travel voucher.

Ms Teunissen said, however, that things were at such an early stage of planning that they are currently "unable to guess the number of floors and rooms as drawings have not yet been commissioned."

"It is likely that we will rent space to vendors in keeping with our wellness services in order to meet the wants of our members, for instance a caf? or pro shop."

The proposed move is one of several changes happening in Hamilton's fitness industry. Just this month, the owners of Magnum Power Force Gym put their business up for sale while the owners of Total Fitness remain on the lookout for a new home after their landlord announced moves to knock down their Burnaby Street home and replace it with a mixed-use building.