Gold’s Gym at 835 Rockville Pike in the Wintergreen Plaza shopping center will permanently close on Sunday, May 25.
The gym will be replaced by an Ace Hardware franchise operated by A Few Cool Hardware Stores, the employee-owned group behind Old Takoma Ace Hardware in Takoma Park and Silver Spring Ave Hardware in Downtown Silver Spring. Founded in 2003, the company began transitioning to employee ownership in 2021 through an ESOP and appointed longtime hardware veteran Craig Smith as CEO in 2023…