Mr. Newton and I have both struck out at Ace. "Too bright, clean and professional looking" is an accurate description.
I went for it a few weeks ago, despite noticing on my way in that it had the most obvious indicator that a place is likely to be "legit" -- a permanently-installed, custom-lettered sign, out by the road, away from the building. As most of you know, are+T places almost always have those generic little LED "OPEN" signs that hang in the window from thin chains, so that when they get shut down, they aren't losing much. Ace's post (and possibly in-ground wiring, if it's illuminated) was installed by a previous tenant of the building, but even so Ace would have had to pay for the new overlay with their name on it -- the Google Earth street view actually shows the building under renovation before Ace opened, when they must have been "between" signs. That's a big investment for a are+T. But there's no sure way to tell without trying, and sometimes scoring at a place that seems legit is part of the fun.
As far as those little signs go, I'm convinced that every time a police officer's wife or daughter opens a business, one of those little AMP signs disappears from a police station's evidence room, to be re-purposed in the window of a used children's clothing store or hair salon.
The thing Ace could have spent a little money on is ceilings for the rooms. There isn't much sound damping. I could literally hear the rustling from the guy in the next room fishing through his pockets for his wallet, and my ears aren't that good. For all of that, it was a very decent legit massage, and not a bad stop if that's all you're looking for.
