A premium athletic club is usually pictured as a purpose-built box with a parking lot. Life Time’s next Boston club is going inside a pier that opened in 1913.
Life Time announced on October 6, 2026, that it plans to open a club at Commonwealth Pier in Boston’s Seaport District in late 2027, according to the company’s release. The approximately 45,000-square-foot club will overlook Boston Harbor and will be Life Time’s eighth in the Greater Boston market since it entered in 2015. Its most recent Boston-area opening, The Prudential Center, opened in October 2025, the release said.
Commonwealth Pier opened in 1913 as the largest pier building in the Northeast and later housed the Seaport World Trade Center, according to the release. Pembroke, the real estate firm that redeveloped the property, has reimagined it as a mixed-use destination with office, retail, hospitality and cultural space.
What Life Time Says It Is Building
Life Time’s architecture and design team is designing the club around floor-to-ceiling glass windows, 40-foot ceilings and views of the harbor, according to the release. It will include the company’s boutique studio formats and classes, personal training, a co-ed wet suite with a sauna and warm and cold thermal experiences, and a LifeCafe and bar. “We’re excited to create an athletic club with fitness, wellness and social spaces and experiences that reflect the character and rhythm of the neighborhood and feel distinctly connected to Boston,” said Parham Javaheri, Life Time’s executive vice president, president of real estate and chief property development officer.
We’re excited to create an athletic club with fitness, wellness and social spaces and experiences that reflect the character and rhythm of the neighborhood and feel distinctly connected to Boston.
The release did not disclose lease terms or the cost of the build-out. A waitlist is open, and Life Time said more information will be announced in the coming months.
What an Operator Does With It
Pembroke’s side of the release is worth reading as closely as Life Time’s. Kristan McLaughlin, Pembroke’s director of customer experience and asset operations, said the opportunity is to extend the club’s impact “beyond Life Time’s membership through free public fitness programming and broader community partnerships.” She added that Pembroke, Life Time and the Museum of American Finance are looking at programming with Boston Public Schools.
The release says the club will anchor the redevelopment’s health and wellness offerings, and Pembroke’s quote points past the member base to the public. If a developer asked you on Monday what your club would add to their building beyond its members, what would you say?