A nail salon is planned for a vacant commercial space on Main Street, records show.
A nail salon is planned for the vacant commercial space at 112 Main St. Credit: Michael Dinan
A street-level business of the recently sold “Raymond Building” at 112 Main St., Spa & Nail New Canaan Inc. is a sole proprietorship offering manicures and pedicures, according to documents on file with the New Canaan Building Department.
Its principal is a Milford resident, according to Connecticut Secretary of the State records.
It’s unclear when the business is planning to open. Its managing principal could not be reached by phone or email.
Spa & Nail New Canaan will use the street address 116 Main St., according to an application filed Nov. 12 with the town. It will employ five nail technicians and will have eight manicure chairs as well as eight pedicure chairs, the application said.
The salon—formerly part of Greenwich Pharmacy—will fill one the very last commercial vacancies filled along Main Street. It will expand an already robust roster of nail salons in downtown New Canaan.
It is essential to safeguard the vested interests of existing nail salons on Main Street. Further issuance of business licenses would likely have adverse effects on the entire industry. Please protect and reconsider the current Nail Salon biz against the additional/New permit.
Question for the group here : what is the town mechanism for approving what new businesses get to lease out space? Is there one? It seems to me we have some kind of “no franchises” rule, although we have a Starbucks and used to have a Subway so maybe I’m misinformed on that. Do we have any kind of committee that seeks out specific industries to balance out the storefronts (ie a group that wants to recruit, say, a steakhouse opening in the old Thali space for instance, or reaches out to successful local restaurants like Kawa Ni in Westport asking them to consider expanding to New Canaan)? Or is it simply a matter of businesses showing up and agreeing to pay rent? I know we have a Chamber of Commerce of course, but does that function mostly as a promoting existing town businesses vs trying to orchestrate a specific retail vision? Genuinely curious given recent developments of a pet store going in next door to another pet store, or as Han Suk Ko points out, yet another nail salon for a town that arguably reached nail salon saturation several years ago.