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Rendering of the planned Life Time club inside Commonwealth Pier's stone facade in Boston's Seaport, with tall arched glass windows showing gym equipment inside The Marrow Report THE BUILD

Life Time’s next Boston club will have 40-foot ceilings. It’s going inside a pier from 1913.

Life Time announced on October 6, 2026, plans for an approximately 45,000-square-foot club at Boston's Commonwealth Pier, set to open in late 2027.

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