{"id":275389,"date":"2026-02-01T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275389\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:13:09","slug":"six-years-later-former-gym-is-finally-being-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275389\/","title":{"rendered":"Six years later, former gym is finally being replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new business has moved into the former gym space on Old Hall Street\"Signature<\/p>\n

Signature Fit Club, Old Hall Street, Liverpool(Image: Geoff Davies)<\/p>\n

A “boutique” gym left vacant in Liverpool\u2019s business district when its founding firm went bankrupt is reopening with a new business and occupant. Sevenstay, a premium aparthotel company based in Liverpool, is preparing to occupy the former Signature Living Fit Club on Old Hall Street, with renovations already underway.<\/p>\n

The 60 Old Hall Street development <\/a>was taken on by Signature Living<\/a> in January 2016. When Signature Living took over the building a decade ago it said it would transform the “ugly duckling” into a residential space, serviced apartments, office space and also include a ground floor retail unit.<\/p>\n

The company opened the fitness club in 2017, offering a range of classes including high-intensity training and boxing. However, administrators were called into Lawrence Kenwright\u2019s <\/a>firms Signature Living Residential Limited and Signature Victoria Mill Ltd <\/a>on April 16, 2020.<\/p>\n

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Signature Fit Club once occupied the ground floor of 60 Old Hall Street(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

Weeks later it was confirmed its fitness club would shut for good<\/a>. The business was designed as a “boutique” gym according to Signature Living, having initially closed down as part of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

In an email sent to members at the time, the club said: “Three years ago, Signature Fit Club was created as a boutique gym, not because we thought we were going to be something special, but because we were small and different – in the end I think that was achieved.”<\/p>\n

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The Big Liverpool Bake opened in one half of the ground floor last year(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

One half of the premises reopened late last year as The Big Bakes, an interactive baking experience and caf\u00e9.<\/a> Liverpool-based aparthotel operator Sevenstay has confirmed to the ECHO it will open its third city centre location within the building’s remaining space.<\/p>\n

Sevenstay owns 52 studio apartments in its Fleet Street complex near Concert Square, alongside a range of contemporary studio apartments on Bold Street. The company offers guests fully equipped kitchens and amenities for bookings of up to eight people.<\/p>\n

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Signature Fit Club, Old Hall Street, Liverpool(Image: Geoff Davies)<\/p>\n

Renovations are currently underway to transform the Old Hall Street site into Sevenstay’s third city centre venture.<\/p>\n

Although an opening date and specifications are being kept under wraps for now, a spokesperson for the company told the ECHO:<\/a> “We hope you will love the finished result as much as we do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new business has moved into the former gym space on Old Hall Street Signature Fit Club, Old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,20535],"class_list":["post-275389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool-city-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}