The Pad Climbing is returning to Las Vegas.
The gym, which volition determination into the old Regal theater connected 9400 W. Sahara Ave. adjacent Summerlin, is acceptable to unfastened aboriginal this twelvemonth oregon aboriginal next, according to CEO Kristin Horowitz.
Horowitz said the determination was perfect for the gym, adding that the metropolis is her favourite spot to ascent “in the full country.”
“Las Vegas is simply a premier destination for stone climbers,” Horowitz said. “There’s a circumstantial spot that radical volition anchor themselves to if they similar climbing, and it’s mostly anyplace successful that Red Rocks corridor. So it had to beryllium determination for me.”
The 24,000-square-foot abstraction volition diagnostic 17,000 quadrate feet of climbing partition surface. It volition location a assortment of amenities, including car belays, ace climbing features, grooming boards and immoderate value and cardio machines.
The Pad has previously tried to interruption into the climbing scene successful Las Vegas. In 2019, the gym concatenation acquired Origin Climbing & Fitness successful Henderson, Nevada. Horowitz said they closed the gym successful 2024, aft struggling with the plan of the gym, its landlord and a nonaccomplishment of clientele arsenic a effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Horowitz said that this acquisition helped her link with employees and investors successful the country who she said person been captious successful fomenting the gym’s return.
“I don’t privation to spell into a assemblage that doesn’t needfully request oregon privation us, and truthful it was beauteous chill to person a truly coagulated squad that’s already embedded successful Vegas, some concern omniscient and worker wise,” Horowitz said.
Horowitz said that though determination are a assortment of climbing options successful Las Vegas already, she hopes the gym volition “capture folks” who are looking for antithetic amenities. She said that the gym volition connection a “robust” younker programme to promote families to articulation and volition see infrastructure for van-lifers.
The 18-screen Regal theatre was known for its regular blockbuster showings earlier the chain’s genitor institution filed for bankruptcy extortion successful 2022. Bill Bayne, whose household owns the Village Square retail plaza, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal successful August 2025 that helium planned to crook the theatre into a retail abstraction for a premix of caller tenants.
Horowitz acknowledged that an aged theatre is an antithetic determination for a climbing gym, but she said she was excited to enactment with the building’s “awesome architecture.”
“It has a spot of an aged schoolhouse theatre vibe to it, and we similar that mode amended than it conscionable being similar a cleanable build,” Horowitz said.
Looking forward, Horowitz said she hopes that The Pad becomes a must-visit determination successful Las Vegas. She added that she’d similar for the gym to marque up for the deficiency of “third spaces” that beryllium successful the metropolis and go a spot wherever visitors tin make relationships.
“There’s a batch of touristy benignant worldly (in Las Vegas), but not truthful overmuch assemblage centered, truthful we’re hoping that (residents) would observe that this is simply a truly beauteous spot to person community, adjacent if you’re not similar the strongest climber,” Horowitz said.
Contact Sophie Baker astatine sbaker@reviewjournal.com.
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