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Nantucket fitness club plans to charge $120K entrance fee, $5K annual dues

Brant Point Lighthouse in Nantucket. Terry Kole / AP

By Nik DeCosta-Klipa @NikDeCostaKlipa

September 21, 2015

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Isaiah Truyman is opening a $5,000-a-year Nantucket fitness club that expects to charge a $120,000 “initiation fee.’’

“We’re not necessarily going after the 1 percent,’’ he told The Inquirer and Mirror.

Ezia Athletic Club, Truyman said, is expected to open in April 2017, but is already taking membership applications.

The club will feature “an 11,000-square-foot indoor facility with a gym, exercise rooms, four squash courts, spa and therapy rooms, a golf simulator and small snack bar; with a pool, spa pool, volleyball court and small chipping and putting green outside.’’

According to the Ezia website, there will also be an olympic-sized “luxury’’ swimming pool, a juice bar, a business lounge, an outdoor fireplace, and an outside sports bar. The site says the club will also include an outdoor pool lounge area with private cabanas, an outdoor movie screen, and a game room.

Nutritional services include private chef meal delivery and DNA and blood testing.

Membership to the athletic club, construction of which was approved by a local planning board last week, will be limited to 250 families.

“We’re catering to people who think $120,000 is not out of the realm of possibility,’’ Truyman told The Inquirer and Mirror. “There has been a lot of positive buzz, both in Boston and here on the island.’’

According to The Boston Globe, 30 membership slots have already been filled at a pre-opening discounted $60,000 initiation “special.’’

“I realized there was this gap in the industry,’’ Truyman told the Globe. “What’s scalable is the lower tier, and what’s high end isn’t really scalable or available. You have these very affluent people who are struggling for solutions.’’