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…
The Build
Real estate, club design and the economics of construction: what it now costs to build a gym and who is paying for it.
THE BUILD 
THE BUILD Hilton’s Signia Restore is designed for hotel guests and locals.
On 25 August, Hilton introduced Signia Restore, a fitness and recovery concept debuting at Signia Hilton…
THE BUILD Basic-Fit’s clubs got more expensive to build. The company says it chose that.
In its half-year report published on 28 July, Basic-Fit disclosed that it spent 57.2 million euros…
THE BUILD Hotels stopped treating the gym as an afterthought. It became the anchor.
For a long time the hotel gym was a windowless room with two treadmills and a…
THE BUILD Nobody’s been hired to run the wellness floor
Walk through the renderings for almost any new luxury tower, high-end hotel, or master-planned community and…
THE BUILD Life Time is building a gym you can live in
Wellness real estate crosses $876B and the operators become landlords.