{"id":131408,"date":"2026-02-12T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:57:27","slug":"private-wellness-club-crge-takes-10k-sf-at-72-01-queens-boulevard-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131408\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Wellness Club CRGE Takes 10K SF at 72-01 Queens Boulevard \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/crge\/\" title=\"CRGE\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CRGE<\/a>, a private fitness club, has signed a 15-year, 10,000-square-foot retail lease to open its third New York City location at 72-01 Queens Boulevard in Woodside, Queens, Commercial Observer can first report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commercial real estate advisory firm <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/ara\/\" title=\"ARA\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ARA<\/a> represented both the ownership, entity <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/qb-properties\/\" title=\"QB Properties\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">QB Properties<\/a>, and the tenant, the firm told CO. Asking rent for the retail lease was approximately $50 per square foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/02\/national-retail-report-q4-2025-jll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High National Retail Absorption in Q4 Persisted Despite Constraints: JLL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRGE is a 24\/7 private, members-only social wellness club that offers a gym along with personal training and nutrition programs. The company was founded in Woodside and has two other locations in Queens, including one at 1-84 Woodward Avenue in Ridgewood.<\/p>\n<p>The fitness company is focused on \u201cscaling slowly with limited membership to maintain exclusivity, quality, and a strong international community,\u201d according to ARA founder Aaron Aziz, who brokered the deal for both sides.<\/p>\n<p>CRGE\u2019s new space will be at the base of the 12-story building between 74th Street and 45th Avenue, also known as Sola, which opened in 2024 and comprises 364 residential units.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fitness club\u2019s lease at the building comes after pizza shop Ledo Pizza signed a deal for 2,000 square feet there in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLedo Pizza and CRGE are just a glimpse of what\u2019s coming for this area,\u201d Aziz told CO. \u201cThe neighborhood is growing fast, and the energy from the community says it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sola offers residents studios to three-bedroom apartments, ranging in price from more than $2,000 to upwards of $5,000 per month, according to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/streeteasy.com\/building\/sola-72_01-queens-boulevard-woodside\">StreetEasy<\/a>. Amenities at the property include a rooftop terrace with a sundeck, a golf room, a screening room, a coworking lounge, a fitness center, and a zen garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Schiavo can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/02\/wellness-club-crge-lease-72-01-queens-boulevard\/mailto:aschiavo@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aschiavo@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CRGE, a private fitness club, has signed a 15-year, 10,000-square-foot retail lease to open its third New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[56313,56314,56315,2361,9,24,63,122,124,123,5943,56316],"class_list":{"0":"post-131408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-1-84-woodward-avenue","9":"tag-72-01-queens-boulevard","10":"tag-aaron-aziz","11":"tag-leases","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-retail","19":"tag-sola-channel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}