Day spa marks ninth birthday
Gloria Curry of Gloria Curry Day Spa Celebrated the nine-year anniversary of her business in Napa.
She made a vow to herself and her clients that if everything went well she would be expanding in five years.
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O’Neys Salon and Spa, the second largest day spa in the Dayton area, has closed. The Kettering salon, which had more than 100 employees, shuttered for good on Saturday, according to a phone message at the spa.
Owners, sisters Judy O’Ney Roberts and Shirley O’Ney Barnhart, could not be reached for comment.
Located at 30 W. Rahn Road on the site that was previously a medical and dental center, the sisters bought the location for $1.2 million more than eight years ago. The 20,000 square-foot salon featured 40 hair stylists as well as massage therapists, aetheticians and manicurists.
Gregg Gorsuch, Kettering economic and development manager, said the city was not informed of the closing and he is uncertain what company may fill the vacancy.
O’Neys Galleria, the neighboring shop selling various items from women’s apparel, jewelry and soaps to sculptures, outdoor garden accessories and furniture, is currently closed, but will reopen on May 31.
The spa’s phone message did not offer details for the closing but did relay some sentiment.
“We appreciate your business for the past 35 years and we apologize for any inconvenience,” the message said.
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Emerald Greens golf resort adds spa, fitness center
The Emerald Greens Resort and Country Club has added a spa in an effort to establish itself as a vacation destination for golfers and nongolfers alike.
The strategy seems to be working, according to sales and marketing director Traci Sherman, who says that package bookings and advance reservations have increased since the spa opened.
Guests at the 50 villas in the Carrollwood Village resort can spend the day on three nine-hole, par 36 courses while riding the fairways in air-conditioned golf carts. Or they can luxuriate at the Oasis Day Spa and Fitness Center.
Resort guests and club members will find cardio equipment, strength training units, free weights, treadmills, personal training and group classes.
Services include:
• Emerald Greens Essential Facial, a 65-minute skin analysis, cleansing, exfoliation with steam and relaxing massage for $85.
• Just for Men facial with deep cleansing, exfoliation with steam, and face, shoulder and scalp massage at $75 for 50 minutes.
Some packages include accommodations, a massage or a facial, and a spa robe for about $370 per night. That rate drops dramatically the longer the guest stays. Call (813) 961-9400.
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13941 Clubhouse Drive, Tampa, FL 33618
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You really have to ask…what are these spas thinking?
Three spas in the same shopping center. They could potentially feel that they each have a different market. Hand & Stone the lower end Franchise spa, which only does massages for members. Bella Day Spa which also offers nail and hair services and Adam & Eve Medspa which will offer the aesthetic and cosmetic services, including restorative and reparative procedures.
You can not help to think that they will encroach on each other’s spa business. Hopefully they will do joint marketing and work as a team to do cross promotions and build each of their business as opposed to competing with each other. Should they choose the later, no one will win.
When you are going to build a spa, you should check out not only the existing competition, but you should seek to be the only spa in your shopping center. At very least , you should determine if the builder has any intention of leasing to other similar businesses.
6 tenants to join AJ’s in marketplace
Three spas, a dry cleaner, interior designer and a bank branch will be the latest properties to open this summer at the 84,668-square-foot Scottsdale North Marketplace.
The center, southwest Lone Mountain and Scottsdale roads, serves north Scottsdale, Carefree and Cave Creek and is anchored by an AJ’s Fine Foods, which opened a 27,728-square-foot store in November.
Phoenix-based retail developer Pederson Group owns the shopping center.
“This is a great place to do business, because the customers really embrace you and make you a part of their lives,” said AJ’s Store Director Bill Hutson.
Joining AJ’s in mid-May is Casa Paloma Interiors, which will offer home furnishings and unique accessories, inspired gift items and interior design services. The store, owned and operated by Diane Johnson Maier, occupies 2,000 square feet.
Also set to open this month is Martinizing Dry Cleaners, which will use 1,080 square feet of space. The company says it is the “premier eco-friendly dry cleaning company” with more than 500 locations nationwide.
The dry cleaner uses a liquid, sand-based silicone it calls “Green Earth,” which is gentle on the nose and clothing. The silicone leaves clothes looking, smelling and feeling better, the company says.
The Hand & Stone Massage Spa is set to open in June with 2,778 square feet of retail space. The spa will provide a variety of massage services, including foot and facial massages ranging in times from 50 to 80 and up to 110 minutes.
Hand & Stone uses polished river stones heated up to 125 degrees, which helps a masseuse reach three layers deep into muscle tissue, according to the company. The store will sell a range of incidental products.
In June, Bella Day Spa will open an upscale 3,570-square-foot hair and nail salon and spa. The store will offer full service beauty care, facials, waxing, pedicures and a wide selection of spa services. Bella Day Spa operates several spas in Arizona, California and Colorado.
The third spa moving into the center is the 2,500-square-foot Adam & Eve Medspa, scheduled to open late this summer.
The medspa, owned and operated by Dr. Carl Sonder and his wife, will offer aesthetic and cosmetic services, including restorative and reparative procedures. In addition to injection procedures, such as Botox, the business will offer skin resurfacing, photo-facials for youthful restoration, laser hair and tattoo removal.
Chase Bank will fill another vacancy with a new 2,500-square-foot branch. When it opens late this summer it will be a prototype offering a variety of high-tech features for customers.
Scottsdale North Marketplace is located near some of the Northeast Valley’s most exclusive residential developments, including The Boulders, Whisper Rock, Legend Trail, Bellasera, Terravita, Desert Highlands, Estancia and Troon North.
The Pederson Group has developed nine shopping centers in the Scottsdale area, including Hayden Peak Crossing at Hayden Road, Thompson Peak Parkway in Grayhawk, and The Promenade, an 87-acre, 1-million-square-foot mixed-use development southeast of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard and Scottsdale Road.
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Toscana Country Club Unveils Luxury Sports Club, Spa Bella Vita To Members
76009 Club Villa Dr
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760-404-1444
Toscana Country Club members recently got a sneak peak preview of the 28,000 square-foot Sports Club and Spa Bella Vita that was transformed into a glamorous “Casino Royale” for an evening of fine cuisine, dancing and just for fun gaming.
Still under construction, The Sports Club fitness room, Pilates studio and movement studio became grand ballrooms and an elegant casino appeared in the Spa Bella Vita entrance and salon for members and their guests while exploring the newest
When completed later this year, Spa Bella Vita will be one of the most luxurious private spas in the West. Toscana members and their guests will enjoy lavish personal services from facials and body wraps to hot stone massages in five beautifully appointed individual treatment suites and two couple’s suites all with private courtyards and outdoor showers. The suites surround a stunning outdoor water garden designed to provide a relaxing ambiance with the tranquil presence of water. The Spa also includes ladies’ and gentlemen’s locker room that feature steam rooms, saunas and outdoor spas and relaxing lounges along with a salon for nails manicures and pedicures.
In the Sports Club, members will enjoy invigorating work-outs in the fitness room, focused training in the Pilates room and a host of fitness programs including yoga and spinning in the movement studio. Infused with the warmth of Tuscany’s unique architecture and ambiance, the Sports Club and Spa Bella Vita feature arched openings, vaulted beam ceilings, soaring tower elements, rustic stonework and luxurious finishes.
Toscana County Club is a private equity Club with 626 luxurious homes and estate home sites. Equity golf membership is limited to 275 members for each of the two private 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Courses. Homes at Toscana are offered from $1.3 million to over $3 million with a limited number of estate home sites available from $1.2 million.
For more than 35 years, Sunrise Company has been building America’s finest country club communities, including The Lakes Country Club, Palm Valley Country Club and Indian Ridge Country Club in Palm Desert, California; and PGA West in La Quinta, California, co-developed with Landmark Land Company.
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After Laura Noss signed up to receive a weekly organic produce box from a farm near her home in Menlo Park, Calif., she decided that fruits and vegetables grown close to home taste better.
“It has opened my eyes to what is local and seasonal,” Ms. Noss said. “I now understand that what I put in my body and on my body matters.”
So she began looking for ways to go local beyond the palate. Last year, while she planned a getaway to Maui, she hunted for treatments that used indigenous ingredients at the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel and Spa. That is how she found herself being scrubbed with locally-sourced coconut and sugar, then dunked in just-harvested coconut milk — for $160 a treatment.
“It felt like it would be fresher than some of the other treatments,” said Ms. Noss, 38, the founder of Social Planets, a communications and marketing company. “I envisioned the woman going out to the tree and plucking my coconut.”
More than 28 percent of spas nationwide use local ingredients, according to a 2007 survey by the International Spa Association, a trade group for the industry. Last year, after seeing the trend take off, the association started tracking how many of the 3,000 spas in its membership use ingredients from local nature in treatments.
In an age of global warming and high gas prices, is it any wonder that more spa-goers are gravitating to blueberries, honey and even maple syrup, cultivated close by because they believe it leaves a lighter carbon footprint?
The local-food movement, popularized by writers like Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, has created an aura of authenticity around all things local. Forward-thinking spas have long included indigenous ingredients on their menus, but more spa owners have entered the game of late, now that customers will pay more for services they deem environmentally responsible.
Some spas use the local produce in unexpected ways. The Cliff House Resort and Spa in Ogunquit, Me., offers its guests a Maine blueberry body wrap for $110. You can also get a Maine Blueberry Pedicure.
That more businesses (spas included) are rushing to make greenbacks off the green-minded hasn’t escaped the notice of Jessica Jensen, a founder of Low Impact Living, an online resource that helps consumers live eco-friendly.
“There are two kinds of companies,” Ms. Jensen said, “ones that are genuinely dedicated to these issues and incorporate them into every aspect of their business, and then other companies trying to put a varnish on their business in the form of putting a few green techniques here and there.”
Some critics say that marketing — not any environmental impulse per se — is the reason local ingredients are touted at spas from the Napa Valley to the Maine Coast.
“Putting the label ‘organic’ or ‘local’ on a product allows a vendor to charge more, irregardless of supply and demand,” said James E. McWilliams, the author of “A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America.” “There is a psychological factor at work here as well. When a company can claim they are going local, it conveys a sense of virtue, that what they are doing is natural and pure, and that their behavior is alternative and even elite. These are values that a lot of consumers today crave.”
Heather Stephenson, 34, favors buying local wherever she travels, as well as in San Francisco, her base. “One of the best things you can do in terms of the planet is to seek out things that are sourced close to home,” said Ms. Stephenson, a founder of Ideal Bite, a Web site about ways to go green. Her body has been polished from regional grape seeds at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa in California, exfoliated with Javanese coffee in Bali, and massaged with volcanic rocks from Costa Rica.
Some green advocates question whether such destination-spa treatments, however carefully sourced, are eco-friendly at all. “Using local materials in a spa setting is a great idea,” said Ms. Jensen of Low Impact Living. “But it’s kind of silly when you think about the carbon emissions associated with people flying 3,000 miles to get to the spa, versus the supposed savings using local materials, wraps and lotion.”
Ms. Stephenson, who visits roughly five spas a year, doesn’t see a contradiction. “The fact is that people go on a vacation,” she said. “We can do that in a way that gives us a healthy experience for ourselves, but also wakes us up to experiencing the things that that culture provides, and gives us an appreciation for the natural world.”
Home-grown experiences are part of what destination spas sell. The spa at Stoweflake Mountain Resort in Stowe, Vt., offers a Vermont Maple Sugar Body Polish using local maple syrup. Tell a tale of a land or its people, and patrons will come — many spas hope.
Sometimes a marketable idea is discovered where it’s least expected. During construction at the Sundara Inn and Spa in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., the former owner, Kelli Trumble, lamented how she had sand in everything, said Tara Duarte, the director of operations at Sundara, including “every pair of shoes and boots and all over her car.”
“Yet, the sand was a pretty mix of reds and golds,” Ms. Duarte added, “and it had such an even consistency that she thought it was the sort of thing you’d find in body polishes.”
So Ms. Trumble put some sandstone into a baggie and had it analyzed at a lab. When it turned out to be sandstone of an ancient Cambrian variety, Sandstone Body Polishes soon appeared at the spa.
Designing signature services based around local ingredients sets spas apart from the competition, said Melinda Taschetta-Millane, the editor in chief of Skin Inc. magazine, a trade publication for spa professionals. “They find that if they use one of these indigenous ingredients, it helps their identity and gives their spa a distinctive mark.”
Competition is fierce with roughly 14,615 spas nationwide, up from 10,128 in 2004, according to the spa association.
As a result, spas are concocting increasingly offbeat (some might say outlandish) offerings, looking to nearby vineyards, deserts and rock formations for ingredients to slather, spritz and rub onto willing bodies.
ESSpa Kozmetika, a spa near downtown Pittsburgh, doles out hot chocolate, brownies and dark-chocolate samples in the waiting room to draw attention to its $140 Stimulating Hot Cocoa Facial and $140 Hot Chocolate Body Wrap. (What the spa doesn’t advertise is that although it gets its chocolate from a local ice cream shop, the cocoa beans are from Africa.)
Customers who choose the Rosemary and Grape Seed Foot Scrub at the spa at Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley are greeted with a glass of 2002 Barlow merlot and tasting notes: “The balanced fruit with subtle earth and herbal notes in the merlot are wonderfully brought to life by the complementary aromatics of grape seeds and rosemary in the foot treatment.”
Spa-goers shouldn’t assume that locals have traditionally given themselves facials or wrapped their limbs in, say, a blueberry mash just because a treatment’s star ingredient is indigenous. “The Hawaiians didn’t really do a papaya scrub, although you do have papaya in Hawaii,” said Sylvia Sepielli, the owner of Sylvia Planning and Design, a spa design and consulting firm in Sedona, Ariz. In her opinion, spas that try to connect their treatments to “local healing culture” are misleading.
It is possible that discovering local ingredients at a spa will have an impact on a person’s behavior once they return home, Mr. McWilliams said.
“Maybe ‘green lite’ will turn into ‘green heavy,’ ” he said. “But the most environmentally-friendly thing we can do is reduce our consumer spending dramatically, and a spa is a dramatic luxury expense.”
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UPDATE: Thrillz Customers Can Redeem Gift Certificates
The former owner of Thrillz Salon & Spa on Monroe Avenue now tells 13WHAM News that he’s made arrangements to honor gift certificates of past customers.
James Scibilia says he’s worked out a deal with “Made You Look Salon & Day Spa” at 2150 Monroe Avenue (244-5644) that will allow customers to redeem Thrillz gift certificates. The owner of “Made You Look,” Kim Casciani, says she’ll discount services by 25% until the full value of each Thrillz gift certificate is redeemed. Meaning it may take a few visits, but you will get your money’s worth in the end.
Scibilia also says he will personally honor the full value of any gift certificate for hair services alone at the “K Salon” at 1462 Monroe Avenue. (271-3610)
The salon/spa was open for nearly seven years and did a good business according to many former workers and customers.
Sandy Kesel, a former Thrillz worker said, “It was just a regular Saturday, we were selling gift certificates; we were doing services. People were coming in and buying product. We had no idea that they were going to be closing the doors on Sunday, we had no idea.”
“One employee happened to be driving down Monroe Avenue and saw a big U-Haul truck in front of a salon,” Kesel said. “That’s how we all found out.”
For now, customers waiting for answers as proms, graduations, and weddings
13WHAM News contacted the Thrillz owner and he said financial reasons forced him to close. He also said he wants customers to know they’ll be reimbursed, and that he hopes to provide 13WHAM News with a contact phone number or email address in the coming days.
Many spas are adding memberships components in an effort to establish client loyalty program. Following the Spa Franchises like Massage Envy, Hand and Stone and Faceology.
Iatria Spa Launches Membership Plans
Cyndy Elkins, vice president of marketing at Iatria Spa has announced that the spa has launched two membership plans, the Escape the Everyday Membership as well as the Stress Less Membership.
Escape the Everyday is a 12-month membership which entitles clients to receive their choice of a one hour massage, European facial or classic manicure and pedicure each month. In addition, members save 15 percent on all spa services and 10 percent off all retail purchases. An Escape the Everyday Membership is $49.95 per month for 12 months.
Iatria’s Stress Less Membership is a 12-month membership plan in which members save 10 percent off day spa services completed before 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 10 percent off all retail purchases. Stress Less Membership is $9.95 per month for 12 months.
“We are pleased to launch membership plans for our customers,” said Erika Mangrum, president of Iatria Spa. “Both the Escape the Everyday Membership and the Stress Less Membership are an excellent way for customers to get the most out of their spa experience. We are proud to reward our loyal customers.”
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Iatria Spa is a full-service medically oriented spa with three locations in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Under the supervision of an on-site medical doctor and with nurse practitioners performing the services, Iatria offers laser hair removal, Botox®, Restylane®, Juvederm™, Radiesse®, laser skin rejuvenation, Syneron Matrix IR fractionalized light therapy for acne scarring, wrinkle reduction and skin tightening. Iatria was named Top Day Spa/Medical Spa Chain in the Country by Day Spa magazine, a Five-Star Beauty Destination by NewBeauty magazine, one of the Top 20 Day Spas in the country by Launchpad magazine, Best Day Spa in the Triangle Award from Independent Weekly, and the Best Spa in western Wake County in The Cary News’ yearly “Best of the West” poll. The Triangle Business Journal’s Book of Lists has named Iatria one of the Top Women Owned Businesses in the Triangle every year since 2005, and the firm is a two-time recipient of the Pinnacle Business Award for Steady Growth and Profitability.
