The Hauppauge Shopping Center is getting a Pilates studio. BodyBar Pilates, a national reformer franchise with one existing Long Island location in Melville, announced Monday that its second studio here will open at 381C Nesconset Highway, with a grand opening set for Tuesday, September 8, pending the last of the construction.

What is going into the space

The studio will occupy 3,200 square feet in the shopping center and is being built out with 14 reformer machines, a private room for one-on-one training, accessible bathrooms and a small boutique selling branded activewear. The format is the brand's signature athletic reformer class: instructor-led sessions on the machine, built around strength, balance and mobility, and pitched at every level from first-timers to longtime Pilates regulars.

The machine is the draw. A reformer's sliding carriage and adjustable springs let the same class scale from gentle mobility work to something genuinely punishing, which is why studios built around them tend to pull a wider age range than most gyms.

The owner came to this the long way

The Hauppauge studio is locally owned, and the owner's story is a better one than most franchise announcements carry. Mady Pisano arrived in the United States from Turkey in 2003 as a single mother. She built a career on Long Island and today runs RelyRx Pharmacy and Medical Supplies. The Pilates studio is her next act: she has signed a development agreement for two locations, with the second targeted for the South Shore in 2027 and ambitions beyond that.

Pisano has said the studio will not feel cookie cutter, with programming that changes day to day. The company's co-founder, Kamille McCollum, pointed to Long Island's standing among the healthiest regions in New York as the reason the brand keeps investing here.

The brand behind it

BodyBar operates 89 studios nationwide with more than 21,000 members, and it has been expanding aggressively, with roughly 30 more openings planned before the end of 2026. The Melville studio was its first on the Island. Hauppauge makes two, and if Pisano's development schedule holds, Long Island will have at least three by the end of next year.

For Hauppauge specifically, the studio adds a fitness option to a stretch of Nesconset Highway that residents mostly know for errands, in a hamlet better known for its industrial park than for anything you would do on a Saturday morning.

Founding memberships before the doors open

Between now and the opening, the studio is selling a limited number of founding memberships, which carry 15 percent off the membership rate for as long as the membership stays active, priority booking once classes go live, and a complimentary class before the official opening. The studio is also planning community events in the run-up to September 8 to let people try the format.

If you have been curious about reformer Pilates but not curious enough to drive to Melville or pay Manhattan boutique prices, a studio opening in a Hauppauge shopping center with an introductory offer attached is about as low-friction as the entry point gets. The doors are scheduled to open the Tuesday after Labor Day.