Aviemore’s brand new business park has its first tenants
A thriving fitness community in the strath has found a new permanent home after training under canvas for more than an year.
CrossFit Cairngorm is the first tenant to move onto the new Granish Business Park at the north end of Aviemore.
And owners Ruari Lambert and partner Ellie Dubois are branching out by opening a second venture - the Foxfire Coffee Bar - next door.
The fitness centre started out six years ago in a unit on the Dalfaber Industrial Estate before then having to relocate to the temporary base at the north end of the park.
But their loyal and ever-growing clientele have followed them and now the fitness group has a home to call their own.
Mr Lambert said: “When we moved CrossFit Cairngorm into a tent on Dalfaber Industrial Estate in 2023 we never through that the gym and our community would grow while we were there.
“Despite the hardships of training through a Highlands winter - including running our recent annual weightlifting comp at -10 Centigrade - our community has grown beyond what we could ever imagine.
“We have just moved into our new units on Granish Business Park with more members than ever.
“We are so excited to now be able to provide that growing community, now in its sixth year, with a home that is spacious, warm and comfortable to allow us to help our members build strength, fitness and thrive for years to come.
The Foxfire Coffee Bar will serve up speciality coffees with single origin pour over coffee, high grade speciality espresso drinks, matcha and speciality loose leaf tea.
Mr Lambert said: “We have been busy sourcing beans with new and exciting flavours.”
The cafe will soon be serving light food options too.
More about the new business park
The much needed new light industrial park serving the Aviemore area was approved by the Cairngorms National Park Authority’s planning committee in March, last year.
The Granish Farm Partnership is behind the 20 commercial letting units on 1.24 hectares next to the Aviemore Kart Raceway and Highland Council's recycling centre and the village's water treatment works.
Each unit provides a floor area of 100 square metres and is made from a steel portal frame construction with part timber clad and part metal sheeted elevations.
The new business park uses the existing road junction from the B9152 for access.
The industrial estate’s previously potholed rough link road is now much improved as a result of a planning condition to bring it up to adoptable standard by Highland Council as part of the development.
