Planet Fitness Opens Location in Former Middlesex Acme Space

Planet Fitness has taken over the old Acme supermarket building at Middlesex Corner in Middlesex borough. The gym now occupies half the space at 125 Bound Brook Road.

According to Patch.com, Acme shut down in February 2022. The building stayed empty for four years after that. It sits on Route 28 where Bound Brook Road meets the main road.

Doors open at 5 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. On Saturdays and Sundays those hours shift to 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

One franchisee runs this gym plus several others scattered throughout New Jersey. That same owner just opened another Planet Fitness at Blue Star Shopping Center on Route 22 in Watchung.

Levin Management Corporation leases out both shopping centers — the one in Middlesex borough and the one in Watchung.

Only half the old grocery store got filled. What happens with the other half at Middlesex Corner? Nobody's saying yet.

You can sign up through the gym's website. This marks another empty store getting a second life.

The Watchung spot opened recently too, which shows this franchise growing fast in central New Jersey. Both gyms moved into spaces where stores had closed and left nothing behind.

That Middlesex borough building sat dark for over four years after the supermarket chain walked away. All across New Jersey, old retail spaces keep turning into fitness centers as traditional stores disappear.

Will the franchise owner open more gyms nearby? That hasn't been announced. These two new spots give people in Somerset and Middlesex counties fresh places to work out.