Can Basecamp Fitness require me to use their designated architectural vendor for my first studio?
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.
- 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, if you do not use their designated architectural vendor to create your Construction Documents, you must pay Basecamp Fitness's then-current fee to review and approve your Construction Documents. However, if this is your first Basecamp Studio, Basecamp Fitness may require you to obtain your Construction Documents from their designated architectural vendor.
If you choose to use your own vendor, the vendor must meet any standards and specifications that Basecamp Fitness requires. If you do not use Basecamp Fitness's designated architectural vendor for the creation of your Construction Documents, you will pay a nonrefundable fee of $2,700 to review your Construction Documents.
Basecamp Fitness also states that your Basecamp Studio must be developed in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, codes and other governing requirements, as well as their mandatory specifications that they provide to you, and with any Compliance Drawing. You may not begin construction of your Basecamp Studio until you have received written consent to your actual design for your Basecamp Studio. You must supply Basecamp Fitness with accurate site information for your proposed location to allow them 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.