Chelsea Piers
Multi-sport fitness complex · 6+ locations · NYC, Stamford CT
Chelsea Piers has been run by the same founders for three decades, with no institutional investors in the operating company. But the ground under it now belongs to a NYSE real estate trust, which bought the flagship property in 2023.
The Big Picture
Chelsea Piers has been run by the same three founders since they won the state lease for the derelict Hudson River piers in 1992, with no institutional investors in the operating company. The 2023 sale of the flagship real estate to REIT VICI Properties, leased back for 32 years, is the one structural caveat, and labor at its Pier Sixty events venture is the live story: 129 servers voted to unionize in February 2026, with a retaliation charge and a wage suit still unresolved. The company still answers to its founders, not a fund.
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Company data last updated September 2026
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