Tri-Valley Herald Building To Begin Building Better Buns

Fitness buffs are all abuzz over the 50,000-square-foot 24 Hour Fitness Club finally coming to the Tri-Valley Herald building in the Hacienda Business Park.

The huge club, set to open this winter according to the company's website, brings to Pleasanton a workout choice that includes a pool but not the higher prices of Club Sport.

Anyone who has worked in the business park and put up with the lackluster digs of the old 24 Hour on West Las Positas, half the size of the new one, knows this is big news for the old newspaper office that has been empty for about three years.

Rather weirdly, my connection to all of this is that I worked as a reporter and editor at the Herald AND worked out at the West Las Positas club. I definitely never imagined the fitness center would replace all of us intrepid cub reporters sweating it out on deadline.

Given the average fitness level of the average journalist (I can still picture one guy physically shaking the vending machine in the lunch room to dislodge a stuck Snickers bar), I can't help but marvel at the building's new purpose in life.