The warehouse-like building at 17203 Bamwood Road, just off FM 1960 West, has a bit of an interesting history. In 1980, a gymnastics center at 17203 Bamwood was built, known as "Gym-an-i Gymnastics Center". In the early 1980s, recently defected Olympics team trainer Béla Károlyi invested in the gym and ended up buying it in 1982 (renaming it as "Karolyi's Gym") and spurring the creation of many similar facilities in the area. In 1996, the Bamwood facility was purchased by James Holmes of College Station and renamed Acrofit Gymnastics (more on Acrofit Gymnastics can be seen at Brazos Buildings & Businesses). Károlyi continued to operate Karolyi Ranch until it was shut down as part of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal (Karolyi passed away in 2024).
This facility continued to operate as Acrofit until around 2000 when Acrofit opened a new facility at 2103 Anders Lane in Kemah. I'm not sure if both locations co-existed at the same time (probably not) but this location was gone by 2004 (which was when the College Station location closed).
High Energy Lighting Inc. was later here and which has since renamed Famous Stages, Inc. and is in use as their warehouse (their showroom is elsewhere in town).
This is an updated version of what originally appeared on Carbon-izer.
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