What is the process for Basecamp Fitness to designate a design professional?
Basecamp_Fitness Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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- If you do not use our designated architectural vendor to create your Construction Documents, you must pay our then-current fee to review and approve your Construction Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this is your first Basecamp Studio, we may require you to obtain your Construction Documents from our designated architectural vendor.
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- If you do not use our designated architectural vendor for the creation of your Construction Documents, you will pay us upon demand a nonrefundable fee of Two Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($2,700) to review your Construction Documents.
The vendor you use must meet any standards and specifications we require.
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Compliance Drawing.
Before you begin construction of your Basecamp Studio, we will create a specific studio layout/design for your Basecamp Studio (a "Compliance Drawing").
If, however, you would like additional Compliance Drawing, you must pay us our then-current fee per Drawing.
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Prototype Floor Plan.
Before you begin construction of your Basecamp Studio, we will provide you with a prototype floor plan, as well as a list of the equipment, displays, fixtures and furnishings for your studio.
It will then be your obligation to conform the prototype plans to your space, and to construct your premises in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement in compliance with all local laws.
- A. Construction. Your Basecamp Studio must be developed in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, codes and other governing requirements, as well as our mandatory specifications (the "Mandatory Specifications") that we provide to you, and with any Compliance Drawing. You may not begin construction of your Basecamp Studio until you have received our written consent to your actual design for your Basecamp Studio. You must supply us with accurate site information for your proposed location to allow us to create a Compliance Drawing for you. This information will include, but not be limited to, as-built drawings, surveys, technical data, construction documents and site plans.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD pages 61–62)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Basecamp Fitness's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees may be required to use Basecamp Fitness's designated architectural vendor to create construction documents. Specifically, if it is the franchisee's first Basecamp Studio, Basecamp Fitness may require the franchisee to obtain construction documents from their designated architectural vendor. If the franchisee does not use Basecamp Fitness's designated architectural vendor, the franchisee must pay Basecamp Fitness a fee to review and approve the construction documents. According to Item 22, if a franchisee does not use Basecamp Fitness's designated architectural vendor for the creation of construction documents, the franchisee will pay a nonrefundable fee of $2,700 to review the construction documents. The vendor the franchisee uses must meet any standards and specifications Basecamp Fitness requires.
Before construction of the Basecamp Studio begins, Basecamp Fitness will create a specific studio layout/design for the franchisee's Basecamp Studio, called a Compliance Drawing. If the franchisee would like additional Compliance Drawings, the franchisee must pay Basecamp Fitness's then-current fee per drawing. Basecamp Fitness will provide the franchisee with a prototype floor plan, as well as a list of the equipment, displays, fixtures, and furnishings for the studio. It is then the franchisee's obligation to conform the prototype plans to their space and to construct their premises in accordance with the provisions of the agreement in compliance with all local laws.
Basecamp Fitness requires that the Basecamp Studio be developed in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, codes and other governing requirements, as well as Basecamp Fitness's mandatory specifications that they provide to the franchisee, and with any Compliance Drawing. The franchisee may not begin construction of their Basecamp Studio until they have received Basecamp Fitness's written consent to their actual design for their Basecamp Studio. The franchisee must supply Basecamp Fitness with accurate site information for their proposed location to allow them to create a Compliance Drawing for the franchisee. This information will include, but not be limited to, as-built drawings, surveys, technical data, construction documents, and site plans.