Inside $20m takeover of controversial Gold Coast gym

NGU founder Emil Juresic has big plans for a Broadbeach mega-site A high-profile real estate agent has swooped on a prime Gold Coast site earmarked for a $20 million biohacking super-gym, leaving the former scandal-plagued tenant sidelined on bail fighting extortion charges. Teasing his Level X fitness empire, NGU Real Estate founder Emil Juresic shared footage of him taking a sledgehammer to the walls of the Broadbeach tenancy, formerly home to Change gym. Mr Juresic and his partner Giselle Kramer have signed a lucrative lease for a four-storey Charles Ave space within Makris Group’s Oracle precinct, where Peter Haselhurst launched Change in December 2020. Emil Juresic and Giselle Kramer have taken on the Broadbeach site under their Level X wellness brand Haselhurst, who also co-founded Milky Lane, was arrested in July over an alleged extortion plot. Police allege Haselhurst sent men to the Mermaid Waters home of two people related to previous business dealings. He is yet to enter pleas to eight charges and was granted bail in the Supreme Court in September. Meanwhile, Mr Juresic has announced plans to execute a luxury wellness hub as the Makris Group steers the Oracle North build...