Staying rejuvenated and healthy in Town Square

Gold’s has an extensive line of resistance equipment, a cycling studio with 24 bikes, a group exercise studio, and enough free weights to ballast a ship. There is even a kid’s club providing child care for children aged eight weeks to 13 years.

The most obvious feature of the gym is its staff. When I walked in there were 13 people on hand to serve clients.

General Manager Antoine Terrell told me that Gold’s employs 10 full-time employees and 30 part-timers. A number of them, including Terrell, are careerists with Gold’s, and came with him when he moved from the Randolph Road location to open the Town Square gym.

Terrell said there are always at least four personal trainers on duty and every personal trainer is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine.

After you exercise, you can recover with a full-body massage at Jouvence Aveda. Just walking into this store with its yellow and brown earth tones and spicy scent is relaxing.

The Gibbs Street location is the third shop for owner Daniel Bensimon, although his first in Maryland. Jouvence touts its environmentally friendly construction and products, and also offers skin, hair, nail care and spa packages.

Hair Cuttery, which opened in September, is the place for a quick lunch-time cut. Anna Santos, the manager from the King Farm Hair Cuttery, opened the shiny new location with seven operators who all handle cuts, colors, perms, relaxing and waxing.

Another health care-related business in Town Square is CVS. Those who frequented the temporary CVS location on Middle Lane anxiously awaited last month’s opening of the new store at the intersection of Beall Avenue and Rockville Pike.

The new location is bright and light-filled. CVS transferred prescription records to the new store, and manager Javed Iqbal said that even the phone number stayed the same.

CVS now has a drive-through prescription window. To find it, drive down Beall and turn into the parking garage. The window is ahead on your left.

It is designed for dropping off and picking up prescriptions, but Iqbal says that his employees will work with customers with extraordinary needs.

If you want a flu shot this year, CVS will hold a clinic 3-7 p.m. Nov. 6.

Until Oct. 19, developer Federal Realty will match Town Square purchases with a donation to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Light the Night Walk. Take receipts to BedHeaders Home, Ten Thousand Villages or Toy Kingdom to initiate the donation.

Stay healthy and keep others healthy at the Square.

Sally Sternbach is executive director of Rockville Economic Development Inc., the private-public economic development arm of the City of Rockville. This is part of a series of columns written in conjunction with the opening of Rockville Town Square, the new mixed-use redevelopment project in the heart of the city.