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BUFFALO, N.Y. Carmen Reale and his partners had put in the work.
For three years they built-up their gym, Rock Pile Athletics. They accumulated more and more members for their cross-training work-out center on Buffalo’s Main Street.
There was talk of expansion.
Then the pandemic hit. The gym quickly lost half its membership, and the owners discussed whether to hang it up.
Reale said, “Do we keep trying to claw by or do we call it at some point?”