Blink fitness center opens as work on parking lot is under way

This serious roller waits to be deployed in the
mill-and-pave of the Supremo parking lot
and the adjacent public parking lot.

The new Blink fitness center was open for business this past Saturday. The gym is on the second floor of the McCrory's building (now the Dollar Tree store) adjacent to Supremo and across the street from the YWCA.

You can learn more about Blink from my previous posts here and here. The key thing is that they are marketing to ordinary people, not the super-toned gym rats that may come to mind when you hear the words 'fitness center'.

As you might suspect from this marketing illustration,
Blink is not targeting 'gym rats'.

Meanwhile, work has begun in earnest on the promised improvements to both the public lot in the back and the Supremo's parking lot.

In recent days, the fence marking Supremo's boundary was torn down, the trees along the property line removed and new metal stanchions put in for metal bump guards.
In the public lot, concrete strips separating lanes have been removed, drainage work done and there looks to be some effort to smooth out the very uneven parking area.

(This lot has truly been the stepchild of Plainfield public parking lots and I don't believe the City has spent real money there since it was originally paved nearly 50 years ago. When a sinkhole opened last year near the retaining wall along the Green Brook, the fix was simply to put concrete highway barriers in front of the gap.)


The improvements are being undertaken by the New York realty holding company that owns the Supremo and Blink buildings. The company signed a deal with the City last year to rent 90 spaces in the public lot.

This seems like a considerable investment for the 1-year deal originally contemplated, so perhaps the final contract was for a longer period.

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