Life Time Fitness, which has one of its health clubs at 1 Westchester Park Dr. in West Harrison, an address sometimes referred to as being in White Plains, has plans to open a new facility in The Source building at 1 Maple Ave. in White Plains. Life Time would use approximately 60,000 square feet that formerly was home to the furniture store Raymour & Flanigan, which has moved to a store on Route 119.
The health club use is permitted under zoning with a special permit. Tenants already at The Source include Whole Foods, Cheesecake Factory, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Danone North America and the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors.
Attorney William Null of the White Plains-based law firm Cuddy & Feder said that with 1,025 spaces in the building’s parking garage there is ample parking for the health club. He said that the facility will have proper treatment to prevent noise from being an issue for other tenants.
“They’re very sensitive to making sure there’s isolation for sound,” Null said. “They’ve designed that into this program and we’ve included an acoustical report that highlights different ways in which sound can be mitigated.”
Null said that Life Time’s Westchester Avenue site would remain and that the new location would be to address the demand for health clubs in the city’s downtown area.
Ashley Astor, Life Time’s development manager, said that the new health club would offer an open fitness floor where people can work out on their own as well as fitness studio space for group exercises including Pilates and Yoga. There would be locker rooms for men and women and a co-ed wet suite that would feature a hot tub, cold plunge, sauna and steam room. She said there would be a small cafe that will have offerings such as protein shakes, coffee, breakfast items, healthy pizza and meals for children.
Astor explained that there also would be a Kid’s Academy that would utilize about 2,900 square feet of the facility.
“Our Kid’s Academy is a program where we have, once you’re 90-days-old, three months all the way up to 11-years-old, you can bring your kids to the Kid’s Academy,” Astor said. “There will be a dedicated toddler area and an infant space as well. You get 2-1/2 hours of childcare with your membership.”
Astor said that new windows would be added to the Maple Avenue side of the building to allow adequate natural light to come into the health club.
“There are no windows currently in the space. It was a Raymour & Flanigan furniture store and they did not necessarily need windows. We don’t want to have a dark, dingy fitness space. We want to make it nice and beautiful. We’re proposing to punch eight windows. They’re perfectly aligned with the existing Danone windows (on the floor above) that were … installed not too long ago. Signage is the other item that we’re adding to the exterior. We’re replacing anywhere there’s a Raymour & Flanigan sign.”
