Gold's Gym Downtown Moving...

[McBeefkins]

you gotta try somthing new!

[tufsu1]

Oh I love the comment about grabbing a bite for lunch after your workout at the Landing..........the food there is TOTAL crap.  That's like taking one step forward with your workout and 2 steps backward with your lunch at the Landing;-)

At this point, I think the entire Landing is crap.

Its attitudes like this that doom the Landing.

many people don't even go there based on what they've heard or what they remember from years past....the fact is there are a few decent places...and maybe one more soon when the mexican place opens.

[BridgeTroll]

Agreed tufsu... Twisted Martini has a great happy hour... Mavericks is packed on the weekends.  During the summer the courtyard is filled with people listening to free concerts and enjoying the views and people watching...

One who says... "The landing is crap"  really doesnt know what they are saying.

[tpot]

I'm sorry...........I love downtown and promote it, but the landing is crap, plain and simple....The buliding is so dated it's ridiculous.  I have tried every restaurant at the Landing more than once.  I can't name one that I would take an out of town guest to.  It's too bad.  The location and view is fantastic............;-(

[BridgeTroll]

mmmkay... I didn't know we were judging it by restaurant alone.  Those hundreds of people who cannot find parking on summer weekends, fireworks, xmas tree lighting, etc must enjoy "crap".  Have you been down there on a Friday/ Saturday night?

[Coolyfett]

It just seems really odd to me.  I use the Gold's at least three times a week. It's going to seem weird going to the Landing to go to the Gym. The location on Forsyth added some street activity along that stretch of road and now it will return to dead space after 5pm. I see this as a step backward for Downtown. Prime riverfront views within the Landing can't lure one large, well-known national chain to locate there all because of a supposed lack of parking.....when is this insanity ever going to end!

All the events that happen at the landing and people will be walking by a gym...the public can not spend money there...Gyms are membership based.

[tufsu1]

the gym is on the second floor...no one is walking by it...that said, there are plenty of empty spaces for retail to move into....so giving this space to a gym is no big deal

[reednavy]

Kind of funny when your taking a spinning class and the sea breeze wafts the scent of food over you.

[ProjectMaximus]

I have nothing personally invested in this (I neither had nor will have a membership to this gym anytime in the near future).

That said, spinning overlooking the st johns river under a starry night seems like it would be pretty cool the first few times.

[DetroitInJAX]

I wonder what all the permanent residents of downtown that have memberships to Gold's think now.. Seems like an awfully long walk.

Haven't they papered the windows and put the "Construction Sounds" CD on a boombox repeat over at the Fuddruckers site?

[copperfiend]

Oh I love the comment about grabbing a bite for lunch after your workout at the Landing..........the food there is TOTAL crap.  That's like taking one step forward with your workout and 2 steps backward with your lunch at the Landing;-)

At this point, I think the entire Landing is crap.

Its attitudes like this that doom the Landing.

many people don't even go there based on what they've heard or what they remember from years past....the fact is there are a few decent places...and maybe one more soon when the mexican place opens.

I'm sorry but there isn't much there. With the exception of Hooter's and the food court, every restaurant space is a revolving door. There is no retail worth going there for. The Landing is what it is right now. It is a place to grab lunch during the week and gathering point for events like Fla/Ga weekend and New Years Eve. The Landing needs to give me a reason to feel differently. Somebody mentioned taking out of towners there. In it's current state, I would rather take an out of town guest to the Atlantic Beach town center than the Landing.

[tufsu1]

let me suggest a few more reasons to go to the Landing

1. The food/views at American cafe are pretty god....as long as you have plenty of time (service isn't good)
2. Live music in the courtyards....a great place to people watch
3. Twisted Martini....am upscale bar early, a cool nightclub late....and $3 happy hour includes Crown!

[copperfiend]

I usually go there before Jaguar preseason games and the courtyard music is pretty decent.

[hanjin1]

Anyone been to the gym location lately? I am thinking about getting a membership, since it is only $17.50 a month.

[77danj7]

whoa...only $17.50 a month?