Bowling Green’s business scene beams with new happenings as a new Bowling Green Fitness for Women is due for Lovers Lane soon.

According to the management team of Angela Bratcher and Carol Poe, by January 2008 the former YMCA building at 1056 Lovers Lane will become the new home of Bowling Green Fitness for Women.

The current location in the Ashley Center has been a good location for Bowling Green Fitness for Women since 2002, according to Bratcher, but the move to the former YMCA site gives the all-female membership new boasting rights, including three racquetball courts, and other features.

Aerobic coordinator Susan Harris said she is excited for the move and regards the location as “phenomenal.”

According to Bratcher, pricing will start at $19.95 with four to six aerobic classes per day including pilates, yoga, cycling, group cardio and “The Zone,” a power combo class that features weights and aerobic sessions. Inquires may be directed to 783-9005 for pricing, activities and corporate rates.

In other news, commercial Realtor Tom Baker recently revealed that a new Subway restaurant will be located next to Shenanigans Liquors, which has been open for about a year off Campbell Lane.

The road extension of Fields Drive recently began work to connect it to Patton Way.

“It’s going to be a tremendous asset to that area, and will really help with that traffic flow,” Baker said. “It’s a real testament to how positive the growth is out there.”

The former Subway near Kroger has been relocated to the new Subway, according to Baker.

In the same area, the building at 773 Bakersfield Way that once held Rack’s Outdoors, is for sale or lease, according to J-Mar Properties representative Brad Martens.

“It can be an office, restaurant or retail,” Martens said.

The 5,392-square-foot building was once owned by Joe and Ashley Allsup, owners of Rack’s Outdoors, who no longer reside here.

On Fairview Avenue, the owners of Sunset Cleaners recently retired, selling the business to entrepreneur Trae Hill. The sale was completed in October, but Hill said he is just now getting a chance to change the name to Look Sharp Dry Cleaners in an effort to establish a new brand name for the business.

“I’m going to try to do my best to accommodate customers in every way,” Hill said, adding that he’s willing to meet the needs of customers wanting special requests. “I’m hands on. I am here every day. I look at 90 percent of the garments before they ever leave the store, and I think that says a lot right there.”

Derral Corder, former manager of Big B Cleaners, which changed hands last year to Nashville-based ownership, is the new general manger for Look Sharp Dry Cleaners.

Hill has been talking with his customers for weeks to spread the word about the changes.

“Being in real estate in the last five years, I obviously used a lot of the dry cleaners in town and I was not happy with any of them,” Hill said. “I tried them all and they weren’t up to my standards.”

Hill says the opportunity with Sunset Cleaners just kind of fell in his lap.

“The opportunity was there. I was ready for a new challenge,” Hill said.

Hill has owned other businesses in the area, including Pro Medical equipment in the ’90s, and several Batteries Plus franchises.

“I’m pretty much a hometown guy,” he said.

New features for cable customers

Bowling Green customers of Insight Communications will notice new features today on the company’s recent launch of Insight Digital 3.0, an upgraded service that will provide digital cable customers with more high-definition channels, 19 new “On Demand” channels, new digital channels and a new main menu, according to an Insight news release.

Insight has automatically upgraded all existing Insight Digital 2.0 customers to the new Insight Digital 3.0 service at no additional charge.