BETA Academy (http://www.betamartialarts.com/) was founded on January 1, 2009. Since that day, our home has been on the basement floor of the Capital City Public Charter School located at 3047 15th Street, NW in Washington, DC. While the mat space is a little less than 900 square feet, the total occupied facility (including changing and bathrooms) is approximately 1,500 square feet.
We are the only school in the DC area to offer a complete Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Thai Boxing, and Mixed Martial Arts program. With the explosive popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) the demand for like schools, such as ours, is sky rocketing. In less than six months, we have signed up over 50 members and that number continues to grow every month exponentially. At this rate, we will need a bigger facility in less than a few months. Most of the students at BETA Academy will tell you that we already need to move.
Even with the worsen economic climate, the DC commercial real estate market remains unshaken. It is extremely difficult to find a space that is accessible and affordible. Home for BETA Academy will always be in DC so are doing our best to find a suitable location in and around our current location; Columbia Heights, DC.
Our current plan is to continue subletting until we can increase our student body enough to justify a standalone space.
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