Saturday, November 26, 2005

Golds Big Move

Downtown St. Louis ResidentIt looks like the Downtown neighborhood has won out over Downtown-West neighborhood for the new location for Gold's Gym. I spoke to people from Gold's since they first were informed of their need to move and talk was pretty much narrowed down between the Goodman Building at 13th and Washington or St. Louis Centre at 7th and Washington. They are moving as I write and should be fully opened at the Centre on December 1.

I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm kind of glad. The area at 13th and Washington while a good location, seems to be anchored right now by several great new businesses. The Goodman building (2 story) would be a great location for a variety of places (bookstore or grocery store maybe?). Not that having Gold's there would have been bad, but to me, it seems like it will do more good having a stable new tennant for the Centre (plus it will be closer to my place at the Dorsa lofts).

The bottom line though, is thankfully, they stayed in the urban core. They could have moved to Affton or St. Louis Hills.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

While Gold's is open, it's far from fully opened. The showers in the locker rooms won't be complete for another 3 weeks according to the manager - which means if you work out at lunch then shower and go back to work, you're not going to be able to do that for a while. And the rest of the place is still under construction too.

I appreciate them opening completely but they have know for months they would have to leave the Ely Walker building. I also wished they would have add some NEW equipment instead of just moving all of the aging and often broken equipment to the StL Center space.

Anonymous said...

I meant opening quickly...

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure what to think of the new Gold's location. I know I wasn't too impressed with their services. I think I will continue shopping other city health clubs. Nonetheless, I do wish them luck.

Anonymous said...

Same here. I was not impressed with the service or all of the equipment that had "out of order" signage on it!