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The long-vacant Soundview Cinemas in Port Washington will be the new home of a local fitness center.
The Training Station Athletic Club has leased the 22,100-square-foot former movie theater space in the Soundview Marketplace shopping center, where it will relocate its current club on Channel Drive.
The Training Station, owned and operated by the husband-and-wife team of Peter and Susan Karika, opened its first facility on Main Street in Port Washington in 2000 and relocated to the building at 45 Channel Drive about five years later. The Karikas opened their second club in Glen Cove in 2006.
The Soundview location meets the Training Station’s requirements.
“The ceiling height is great because we need high ceilings, and the amount of space is what I wanted, which was between 20,000 and 25,000 square feet,” Peter Karika told LIBN. “The one problem I have here on Channel Drive is a lack of sufficient parking, and the parking will be great over there as well.”
The new space will also be a major investment, as Karika estimates spending between $3 million and $5 million on the new club’s buildout.
Besides the personal attention it provides its members, Karika said the Training Station is a cut above other fitness chains.
“We’re a full-service facility. We have everything you need as far as health and fitness,” he said. “We do every type of class, separate yoga studio, separate spin studio, locker rooms with towel service, steam, sauna and a very large free-weight area for all those guys looking for that. Everything is under one roof with boutique pricing where everything is included.”
Monthly memberships currently range from $89 to $99.
Since the Training Station’s lease at Channel Drive expires a year from now on Oct. 31, 2026, Karika said the Soundview club will open by Nov. 1, 2026, or sooner.
Soundview Cinemas opened in May 1990 and after being taken over by Clearview Cinemas in 1998, the six-screen theater closed in 2010. The movie house was reopened by independent operator Soundview Cinemas in April 2013 but fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic and went dark for good in September 2021.
The Training Station is the latest addition to the revitalized 188,109-square-foot Soundview Marketplace, which was only about 50 percent occupied when the center was purchased by a joint venture between Boca Raton, Fla.-based PEBB Enterprises and Manhattan-based Sagamore Hill Partners in Dec. 2020. The new ownership secured an $18.75 million refinancing of the retail complex two years ago and has been filling the 11-acre property with several new national and regional tenants.
With the Training Station lease, the Port Washington shopping center is now nearly fully occupied, with just one 1,810-square-foot space available. The Soundview Marketplace tenant roster includes Target, T.J. Maxx, West Marine, Walgreens, Five Below, Ace Hardware, Starbucks, Just Salad, GNC and many more.
Gary Friedman of Schacker Realty represented the Training Station, while Jason Sobel and Jeremy Isaacs of RIPCO Real Estate represented the landlord in the lease transaction.
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David Winzelberg
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