Rooftop gym to relocate workouts
The dumbbells were reracked and the yoga mats re-rolled for the final time on The Gym Fort Lauderdale Beach’s iconic rooftop workout space at the Aquatic Center Plaza last month, as a looming hotel project forced the eviction of the longtime beachside business.
But The Gym’s profile is poised to swell amid the margarita bars, apparel shops and seafood restaurants that populate the city’s core beachfront resort area. Thor Equities, leasing agent for The Gallery at Beach Place just north of the intersection of State Road A1A and Las Olas Boulevard, recently announced the gym has signed a 10-year lease and will relocate to a 5,000-square-foot space on the plaza’s first floor.
The space comes with an open-air terrace area used by its former tenant, Tequila Joe’s, for dining and a tiki bar. Despite it not being the breezy rooftop environment of its former home — it resembles more of an outdoor atrium — owner Jodi Goldstein said she plans to continue The Gym’s outdoor workout tradition by holding spin classes and “boot camp” training sessions in the space.
It’s unlikely to become Muscle Beach at Beach Place, Goldstein said, because leaving benches and racks of weights accessible to pedestrians walking through the plaza would be a liability.
But she hopes attention created by the outdoor group classes will help generate sales of the healthy smoothies, juices and graband-go lunches she plans to sell.
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Half of young Americans expect to be financially better off than their parents, according to a poll, a sign that the dream of upward mobility is alive but somewhat tempered.
The poll, by The Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV, found that 50 percent of 15- to 26-year-olds think they eventually will be better off than their parents in terms of household finances. About 29 percent expect to do as well as their parents, and 20 percent expect to be worse off.
Parents were slightly more optimistic: 60 percent think their children will do better than they did, a view that held true for parents across all income groups. Overall, only 12 percent of parents said that they felt their children might do worse.
It’s no longer a guarantee that children will achieve upward income mobility. About half of the Americans born in 1984 earned more at age 30 than their parents, down from 92 percent in 1940, according to the study by economist Raj Chetty and others that was released in 2016.
100,000-square-foot plaza has never been home to a gym before, Thor Equities spokesman Joshua Greenwald said.
Goldstein expects it will take about six months to prepare the space for use as a gym. She’s not thrilled about having to leave the Aquatic Center Plaza, where the gym operated for some 30 years first as Oceanside Health Club