Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 11

163 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 11 father and I always felt it would be good for me to have experience at another business. I liked where I worked, but I was expecting my first child and was traveling a lot. I asked my dad if I could come back. They needed somebody to help with technology. I have a degree in Entrepreneurship, but I had also worked as a Technology Trainer, so I ended up helping with that.” In 2008, Matt bought out his father’s two original partners. When Lappin left four years later, Jack bought his shares. At the end of 2016 Matt purchased shares from his dad to become majority owner and Jack bought out the last remaining partner in 2020. He and his father are now the sole owners. “I became President in 2008 and now I have my team,” Matt reports. “Brent Frueh is the General Manager and has his business partners. In the early 1990s, one of those partners traveled 70 miles to Saint Paul, MN and noticed a multipurpose club. It gave him the idea to build one in Rochester. The other two partners agreed, and the three men hired an industry consultant, Greg Lappin, to guide them through the process of turning their concept into a reality. A feasibility study was performed before hiring the Ohlson Lavoie Corporation (OLC), an architect firm with experience designing fitness clubs. Lappin stayed on as General Manager, staying in that role until 2012. During Lappin’s time at the RAC he was given the opportunity to join ownership. Matt Remick came to the club in 2000. He recalls, “When it opened, I was a freshman at the University of St. Thomas. I also worked at an industrial distribution company because my ROCHESTER ATHLET I C CLUB