Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, the once-smelly waterway that was long a punch line for comedians, will soon welcome one of the Big Apple’s largest and most glamorous “wellness” centers.

Life Time, creator of 185 “athletic country clubs” including 13 in the Big Apple, signed a lease for a mammoth health-and-fitness mecca at Charney Companies’ and Tavros’ 175 Third St. – with 85,000 square feet indoors on three levels, plus a 13,000 square-foot rooftop pool deck.

Soon to be the largest building in Gowanus, 175 Third St. is part of the development partners’ five-building campus called Gowanus Wharf. Thanks to rezoning to spur creation of 9,000 new rental apartments, and a federally-backed cleanup, tenants have flocked to new towers along the once-fetid canal, which has emerged as the neighborhoo

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