I wasn't one of the people who felt the Printing House was my family. It was a gym. A gym with a sauna and hot tub and a nice airy locker room and some excellent classes. I didn't think the previous management was particularly saintly or genuine. So, I greeted the takeover by Equinox as a possibly good thing.
However, because branding is far more important to them than service, Equinox demolished one of the two locker rooms to make a new ""branded"" lobby. Then they closed the other locker room for renovations. For at least four months. There are no showers. They could have renovated one locker room before demolishing the other, but such a service-oriented approach was, I'm sure, never an option for them. I suspect the sauna and hot tub are not returning, since they aren't standard Equinox features.
While the new finishes are, well, new, they aren't particularly elegant. I was hoping perhaps for something more upscale than the old Printing House, but this place is upscale only if one is firmly wedded to the notion that expensive=upscale. The cardio machines abut each other in a way that makes Lucille Roberts look high end. And the manager is probably as rude as any human being that a major corporation has allowed to have dealings with their customers.
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