“I came from the clubs and … I learned from the clubs,” he said.īarton lived across the street at the Chelsea Hotel and had already established other fitness locations when he was approached in 2003 by developer Mitchell Marks to create the gym on the lower levels of “this beautiful building.” Massive fans give the space an industrial touch. “I wanted to make it OK for cool people to go to the gym and have a place where … people who went to clubs would feel comfortable,” he said, so they could “look better naked.”Īs such, Barton deployed great music, lighting and design details to translate that sensual nightclub experience to fitness. GYM U The gym is marked with top-line fitness machines and stylish lighting.
WireImage And with his return comes a reemergence of his nightclub-like gyms, which long attracted an A-list crowd. David Barton, a longtime figure in the fitness world, is back.
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23rd St.īarton got into the fitness biz after college, when he became a personal trainer and then “saved my pennies.”Īs a nightlife denizen himself, the detail-oriented Barton learned from that club hospitality environment how to make his own clients feel at home in a fitness facility. The 35,000-square-foot project is known as “Gym U” - as in University - and opened with a packed VIP party on May 31, and to the public on June 2. “This is my home and this space was my baby.”īarton really did need a local gym where he could pump iron - as Page Six exclusively reported last month that he and his wife, Susanne Bartsch, were kicked out of a Crunch facility earlier this year when they caught wind of his new project. “I love this location and I needed a gym to work out in,” Barton told The Post. Gym guru David Barton has returned to Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood with a reinvention of the same space his fitness facility occupied until a decade ago.
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