A 30-something restaurateur, digital marketing professional and model is converting 8000 square feet in what he says is an MTA tunnel from the 1840s on Broadway and White into a “sanctuary” — or a subterranean spa-slash-mediation space. I think it might be under 381 Broadway, on the northwest corner? It looks absolutely nuts! (Thanks to T. for spotting the news.)

It will be called Moonrise.

Brooklyn native Jack Liang has launched six restaurants, including Flippers, the super fluffy Japanese pancake spot that was on West Broadway in Soho, and The PokéSpots in Union Square and Nolita.

His new “wellness clubhouse” is designed to be a third space that functions without alcohol or athletics — a space for “presence, sobriety, and community.” The space will host wellness events, workshops and sober social gatherings.

Liang also has Lighthouse Cannabis — and somehow I missed that at Community Board 1’s Licensing Committee; it was back in 2024. I am guessing the two sites are connected?

More soon, I hope, when Liang can show me around. In the meantime, you can join the waitlist for membership here.