A new fitness facility that will open in North Suffolk this weekend is a far cry from your regular gym, its owners say.

Business partners Nick and Christine Eremita, of Carrollton, and Dan and Parul Stevens, who call Harbour View home, have established BURNfit Athletics in a cavernous, 12,000 square-foot business unit at 1984 Northgate Commerce Parkway.

“The goal is to have two or three things going on simultaneously, so that kind of environment really required something like this,” Nick Eremita said this week.

Christine Eremita added, “We live not far from here, and I have been training in the area (for a number of years), so we have built up a good base of clients. We just felt like this was a great central location.”

In fact, Nick Eremita refers to his wife as the area’s “Pied Piper of fitness.” She has a following of about 80 fitness enthusiasts, he said, adding, “They enjoy working out with us.”

BURNfit offers these followers — and those that will join them — a permanent home, according to Eremita. “Plus, it offers something to our student athletes that really doesn’t exist in the area,” the former Army master fitness trainer added.

A grand opening and open house is set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Before then, the owners and their contractors and volunteers will be working flat out to get it ready.

“We’ve just hung up the climbing ropes, and we’re putting the floor down,” Nick Eremita explained.

More than 7,000 square-feet of artificial turf was being laid, where, with soccer goals set up, they’ll be running futsal tournaments. Futsal is a type of indoor soccer.

Nets will divide this space from the workout area. Monkey bars are being built, and folks will use teamwork and their muscles to scale two walls, one six feet tall and the other a daunting 9.6 feet.

“To get over this wall, it’s a team-thing,” Nick Eremita said. “Two or three guys are going to help. It’s about building mental toughness, confidence and physical fitness, all together.”

A spin studio will have 25 bikes. On nice days, a garage door will be rolled open.

Eremita named five individuals who’ll work as coaches: Vic Whitehead, Amber Tester, Conner West, Ryan Grisham and Justin Byron, who is also head track coach at Nansemond River High School.

Local sporting organizations have already expressed interest in using the facilities for special training and during inclement weather, Nick Eremita said.

“Having a temperature-controlled, indoor facility of this size is unique,” he said. “The type of training we are doing is really state-of-the-art stuff.”

He also described a “huge sense of camaraderie” and strong social component, especially among mud-runners training for that next race.

“We do the race together, then everyone comes back, and we have a barbecue,” he said.

More information can be found at www.burnfitathletics.com.