Gym operator takes over Tower Records location

A boutique gym operator, I might add. LAT reports that the David Barton Gym will be the anchor tenant of a planned building at 8801 Sunset Boulevard, home of the late Tower Records store. They still need city approval to demolish the building.

The developer hopes to begin work on the new retail and office building next spring, said gym operator David Barton. There are already a handful of gyms in the vicinity, but Barton says his will compete by being "cooler than most." Each of his gyms, also in Miami, Seattle, Chicago and Seattle, has an individual, ornate interior style. A New York branch, for example, has Victorian touches. In West Hollywood "it will totally be a nod to rock 'n' roll," Barton said.

I feel old.