To build the nation’s largest new climbing gym in 2024, Englewood-based Movement Climbing, Yoga and Fitness literally raised the roof 25 feet over a space that previously housed a golf retailer.

Located in the Centennial Promenade shopping center on County Line Road across the street from Park Meadows, Movement Centennial’s 55-foot-high climbing walls span 28,000 square feet and accomodate 105 routes. It opened last March, and in December, Climbing Business Journal ranked it No. 1 on its list of largest new climbing gyms of 2024.

“When we took over the lease, we popped up (the roof) and recapped the building,” gym director Kory Stratton said during a tour of the space this week while climbers spidered up an Olympic-certified speed wall. “The first time I was in here, just a little over a year ago, there was a cement truck and there was a puddle on the ground, because it rained and the roof wasn’t capped yet.

“To see it become this community space — people having fun, meeting new people, forming friendships, attaining their goals – feels really special to us.”

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