![]() “I wanted to build a wall of giant fans, floor-to-ceiling and he is a brilliant carpenter and artist,” Barton said of Peter Brescia. The rear wall of the first floor is dominated by several, 11-foot high fans, with lighting that will change with the music spun by an in-house DJ - whose blue-lit booth sits on the side of the large atrium overlooking the workout areas. Other design collaborators include renowned architects Charles Renfro and Stephen Alton, carpenter Rose Wood and the award-winning lighting design firm Focus Lighting. But until they are legal, no psychedelics. 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. He added, “I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.”ġ1 A view of weight machines from above. “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. ![]() ![]() 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.ġ1 The space opened last week. ![]() 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. Wells Fargo to buy NYC Neiman Marcus space at Hudson Yards for $550M: report Recent NYC retail leasing scene fuels skepticism despite luxury retail leasing boom US office real estate prices headed for ‘severe crash,’ investors say Trump’s Tower and these other NY properties could be lost in $250M civil fraud case
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