![]() ![]() There’s also a public café, the Mush Room, developed in collaboration with Billy Gilroy from Employees Only with a menu based on the metabolic benefits of mushrooms that will include cocktails, healthy food, smoothies and coffee. ![]() Lois WeissĪ bright red chandelier hangs over the entry staircase, while one of the main internal stairs is painted in the vibrant International Klein Blue tone. Lois Weiss A view of weight machines from above. GYM U The fitness center will even have a DJ. He added, “I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.” A staircase wrapped by a chic International Klein Blue tone. “Now, I have accentuated the volumes and the space.” Before I was drawing out what was architecturally significant,” he said. “I completely changed the look from when I last had it. Because Marks is also a partner in the location, Barton says the terms are “complicated,” but they certainly cost a lot more than in 2003, when the rent was a mere $20 a foot and the buildout nearly $4 million.īut for Gym U, Barton has upped both its interior design - and the facility’s health, wellness and fitness game - with new technologies and recovery schemes. Lois WeissĪll of Barton’s city spots attracted a cross-section of New Yorkers - from club kids and designers, like Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein, to other A-listers like Gwen Stefani, Anna Wintour and Anderson Cooper.īut a decade later in 2013, when Barton left his company, disagreements among the remaining partners put that business into bankruptcy and the spot was rented to a different fitness chain.Īs that lease was ending, Marks reached out to Barton again and the two cut a new deal, sans brokers. GYM U Over the years, clients have included Anderson Cooper and Anna Wintour. “I came from the clubs and … I learned from the clubs,” he said.īarton lived across the street at the Chelsea Hotel and had already established other fitness locations when he was approached in 2003 by developer Mitchell Marks to create the gym on the lower levels of “this beautiful building.” Massive fans give the space an industrial touch. ![]() “I wanted to make it OK for cool people to go to the gym and have a place where … people who went to clubs would feel comfortable,” he said, so they could “look better naked.”Īs such, Barton deployed great music, lighting and design details to translate that sensual nightclub experience to fitness. GYM U The gym is marked with top-line fitness machines and stylish lighting. WireImage And with his return comes a reemergence of his nightclub-like gyms, which long attracted an A-list crowd. David Barton, a longtime figure in the fitness world, is back. 23rd St.īarton got into the fitness biz after college, when he became a personal trainer and then “saved my pennies.”Īs a nightlife denizen himself, the detail-oriented Barton learned from that club hospitality environment how to make his own clients feel at home in a fitness facility. The 35,000-square-foot project is known as “Gym U” - as in University - and opened with a packed VIP party on May 31, and to the public on June 2. “This is my home and this space was my baby.”īarton really did need a local gym where he could pump iron - as Page Six exclusively reported last month that he and his wife, Susanne Bartsch, were kicked out of a Crunch facility earlier this year when they caught wind of his new project. “I love this location and I needed a gym to work out in,” Barton told The Post. Gym guru David Barton has returned to Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood with a reinvention of the same space his fitness facility occupied until a decade ago. ![]() Reporter who survived submarine stuck under Titanic propeller ‘thought it was the end’ How Amazon got smacked on Lord & Taylor deal - and why it’s doubling down on NYC anyway ‘Zombie’ buildings abandoned during commercial real estate ‘apocalypse’ Restored 19th Century townhouses, glass office in Meatpacking District set for reveal ![]()
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