Equinox Pacific Palisades is set to reopen its doors on December 15 at 17383 Sunset Boulevard, nearly two years after the January 2025 Palisades Fire forced the brand-new club to shut down just weeks into its run. The gym had only just opened in December 2024 before the disaster swept through the community and closed it indefinitely.
According to the Palisadian-Post, the club originally opened at the Sunset Boulevard address on December 20, 2024, but had only a weeks-long run before it shuttered after the fire swept through the following month. The site had formerly been home to Bay Club, though accounts differ on exactly when that gym closed — one Palisadian-Post report states the location closed in 2023, while an earlier Palisadian-Post report says Bay Club closed at the end of May 2022 after deciding not to renew its lease. Equinox has confirmed the December 15 reopening date on its own club page, per Equinox.
What Members Will Find Inside
During the closure, crews worked to clean, restore and prepare every corner of the club to meet health and safety standards, the same report notes. The reopened facility will feature a members' lounge, locker rooms, showers, a strength floor and a fitness studio, along with personal training, studio Pilates, contrast therapy, an activewear shop and a nutrition bar.
Equinox operates 118 clubs worldwide, and the company has framed the Palisades reopening as more than just a business milestone. The company said it looks forward to welcoming the community back and views the reopening as a step forward in the neighborhood's rebuilding, adding that it is honored to stand alongside the Pacific Palisades community.
A Slow Road Back for Local Businesses
Equinox's return fits into a broader, uneven pattern of commercial recovery in Pacific Palisades. As of December 23, 2025, the bulk of businesses in the area remained shuttered, though CVS, Chipotle and a handful of local restaurants had reopened by then, according to CoStar. Nearly 100 commercial structures were damaged in the fires, and none of the destroyed properties had been rebuilt as of that date, per the same report.
A commercial real estate broker cited in that report said retailer demand was growing, but that businesses needed more residents to return before betting on normal foot traffic again. That pattern tracks with the pace of residential rebuilding: nearly two years after the fire, only about 50 of the roughly 6,000 homes destroyed had been rebuilt and cleared for occupancy as of early October, according to Architect Magazine.
Palisades Village Sets the Template
Equinox's reopening follows the high-profile return of Palisades Village, which officially reopened after an extensive, 19-month restoration and environmental remediation effort, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. That renovation cost owner and developer Rick Caruso more than $100 million and included major infrastructure work. The 125,000-square-foot shopping center, which includes shops, restaurants and a movie theater, was 99% leased at reopening, with one-third of its shops new.
Other businesses have been reopening both inside and outside the mall as the community continues to rebuild, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Village's return also involved public-private collaborations with the city to repair damaged roads, paint crosswalks and curbs, and fix broken streetlights near Sunset Boulevard, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles. For a neighborhood still waiting on most of its commercial corridor to come back to life, Equinox's December 15 reopening adds one more marker of forward motion.
