– Daniel Mattsson-Boze, owner of the CrossFit business, said thankfully the building was empty at the time of the incident.
“I got a knock on my door from JSO and they asked if I owned the gym. I said ‘Yeah’ and they said ‘Well there is a truck sitting on your wall.’ So I came down here and there was a blue Dodge Ram in the wall,” Mattsson-Boze said.“Still have people coming in and operate like normally. We won’t have anyone here to make sure everything is structurally sound,” Mattsson-Boze said.
According to Mattsson-Boze, the gym was established in 2014 but it was initially located on Park Street. It just moved to this new location about six months ago. “This is unfortunate but we will not let it hold us back. I think we will be up and running before too long,” Mattsson-Boze said.“We have people go very quickly through here and quite loudly. But it is quite sad. Obviously, I don’t think it was intentional,” Paul Marshall, who lives in the area, said. “Sadly, it is a residential neighborhood with people going quickly to get onto I-10. Sometimes people forget that the I-10 in Roosevelt do not continue onto arterial roads and go quite quickly.