REAL ESTATE

Adding Muscle: Tectrix Fitness Equipment has relocated to larger facilities in Irvine a year earlier than planned.

The company, a manufacturer of exercise sports products, moved from a 20,000-square-foot-building in the Irvine Spectrum to a 60,500-square-foot building at 69 Fairbanks in the Spectrum, signing a three-year lease. Details of the transaction were not revealed.

The company has 45 employees, about 10 of whom were hired in the past two months, to help with expanded production of its three exercise products, including the ClimbMax, a stair climber.

“We have grown into a $20-million company this year,” said Steven Russell, spokesman for privately held Tectrix. “We like the Spectrum. It’s centrally located for our workers and our suppliers are here.”

Founded in 1988 by three Orange County entrepreneurs, the company says its business has more than tripled in the past three years. It recently introduced its newest product, the BikeMax, which it describes as a smoother and quieter exercise bike.