Bathhouse Taking Over Old Amoeba Music in Hollywood

Bathhouse is set to open in 2028

The former Sunset Boulevard location of Amoeba Music has a future as a health and wellness hub. 

Projected to open in early 2028, New York City-based Bathhouse will transform the once music epicenter into an indoor-outdoor, social-wellness third home.  

First opened in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 2019, Bathhouse ditches the notion of solitary rejuvenation for one rooted in community. A typical visit might include a deep-tissue based massage, followed by a cold plunge and sauna with friends. Founders Travis Talmadge and Jason Goodman consider it the “anti-spa” and opened a secondary location in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood in 2024.  

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Given the prevalence of Los Angeles’ wellness-focused culture, they figured it only made sense to make its West Coast roots here. And the vacant Amoeba Music building offered the perfect foundation.  

“We try to design epic spaces and the bones of the building accommodate our design concepts really well,” Talmadge shared over email. “The building has huge floor plates and extremely high ceilings, which allows us to build incredible saunas, pools and amenity areas. We also wanted to do a really large-scale outdoor component in L.A., and the building has a 30,000-square-foot roof that we plan to program the majority of.  It has a great view of the Hollywood sign on one side, and you can see all the way to Santa Monica on the other. We love the location. It’s hard to pick one location that is convenient for everyone in L.A., but this is about as central as it gets.  Hollywood is also one of the most iconic neighborhoods in the world, and we’re excited to be in that market.”  

Credit: Emily Andrews

Credit: Emily Andrews

The Los Angeles outpost will mark Bathhouse’s largest location to date at about 85,000 square feet. It will include seven saunas and steam rooms (including one for approximately 250 people), about 10 thermal pools, all-day hours and a beverage program and concessions on the expansive rooftop.  

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Furthermore, Talmadge notes that while a solo sit in the sauna can be a revitalizing, enjoying it with others enhances the experience similar to “a great concert versus listening to music on your own.”  

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“Community is kind of a wonderful byproduct of the experience, but it’s not something we try and force,” Talmadge said. “’Bathhousing’ is about as fundamental of a human experience as you can have. You get really hot; you get really cold. You spend time in the water. Inevitably, you feel your state change. Socializing is also a human trait, so those two things really go together. The community element happens naturally when like-minded people do similar things.”