A longtime family-owned Chinese restaurant in Ballston has announced plans to close after four decades of business, to be replaced by a West Coast-based gym chain.

Hunan Gate Restaurant A message on the window of the store at 4322 Fairfax Drive near the Ballston Metro station announced that the restaurant will close next month. The owners expressed their gratitude and said they would sell all of the restaurant’s equipment.

“We have been pleased to serve our customers for over 40 years,” the message reads. “Unfortunately, we are closing permanently in early December 2024… It has been a pleasure to have served everyone for so long. We will miss all our customers.”

The Ballston restaurant has different owners than the Hunan Village on Langston Boulevard. recently closed Chinese restaurant with a similar name opened about 40 years ago.

Hunan Gate’s owners plan to retire, property manager Joel Dinkins said.

“We wanted them to stay,” he told ARLnow. “We’ll move on and hope we’ll have another good tenant in the area that everyone loves.”

Performance360A gym offering group strength training classes is on track to replace the restaurant in June, Dinkins said. web page Meanwhile, the planned opening date for the company’s Arlington location is listed as early 2025.

“Our waitlist is growing quickly and this is the only way to secure one of our special pre-launch memberships, which are selling out everywhere we open,” the website says.