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New Spa To Open on Main Street Next Week [PHOTOS]

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New Beauty & Wellness spa will open next week on Main Street opposite the Morse Court parking lot, according to the business’s owners. 

Described as a “state-of-the-art luxury medical spa” on its website, the spa will open its doors Oct. 31 at 128 Main St., the former New Balance space. “After much anticipation, the New Beauty & Wellness team is proud and excited to bring a new standard of luxury wellness to the New Canaan community, marking a significant milestone in our journey,” owners Michele and Paul Dowicz told NewCanaanite.com in an email. Offerings at New Beauty include non-surgical facial treatments, medical grade facials and skincare products, injectables, massage therapy, holistic wellness treatments, lymphatic drainage/cupping/cranial sacral therapy and weight loss. Laura Budd, executive director of the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce, said it’s “an honor that their experienced team chose New Canaan as the location to expand their business.”

“New Beauty & Wellness has already demonstrated a commitment to our community by joining the Chamber before they were even open and participating in Sidewalk Sale,” Budd said.

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Q&A: ‘New Beauty & Wellness Spa’ Readies for Opening on Main Street [PHOTOS]

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The interior fit-out for New Beauty & Wellness on Main Street is well underway, and the business remains on track for a planned early summer opening, according to owners Michele and Paul Dowicz. The street-level space at 128 Main has been vacant since New Balance left two years ago. (Note on the photos above: The design is by Michele Pelafas.)

We put some questions to the Dowiczes as their launch date approaches. 

Here’s our exchange:

New Canaanite: How are you feeling about opening in New Canaan? 

Michele and Paul Dowicz: NB&W is thrilled to open its second location in New Canaan. We are looking forward to being part of the community. 

Why is New Canaan a great location for your business? 

Our clients are sophisticated, well-educated consumers, that are mindful of wellness and expect result driven treatments. We believe New Canaan is the perfect location. 

What is your message to New Canaanites who may not be familiar with your location in Westport? 

There is nothing like NB&W.

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‘New Beauty & Wellness’ Spa Coming This Spring to Main Street

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Another vacant commercial space in downtown New Canaan is poised to get a new tenant. Westport-based New Beauty & Wellness is set to open a second location this spring at 128 Main St., according to signs on the building. 

The street-level space has been vacant since New Balance left nearly two years ago. 

New Beauty is a “state-of-the-art luxury medical spa,” according to its website. It “offers a unique approach to help you look and feel beautiful from the inside out,” the website said. “We combine science, aesthetics and alchemy in a blend of holistic and cosmetic treatments.”

Those include Botox, dermal and lip fillers, hydrafacial, sculpsure and laser hair removal, it said. The existing location in Westport also offers six types of massage and five body treatments, including the “Tranquility Seawater Scrub”: “Full Body Scrub using mineral replenishing crystals, marine alpha hydroxy acids and red algae to take away dead dry skin, revealing soft nourished skin.

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Spa Planned for Former New Balance Space on Main Street

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Vacant for more than one year, the commercial space on Main Street that used to house New Balance New Canaan is poised to get a new tenant. A Westport-based spa is planning to open its second location in the building at 130 Main St., pending approval by the Planning & Zoning Commission. New Beauty & Wellness will “perform spa treatments that shall include facials, BoTox treatments, massages and other wellness treatments,” according to an application filed with P&Z. Under the New Canaan Zoning Regulations (see page 73), personal service establishments are allowed in the Retail A Zone under a number of conditions, including that “the retail component must be located along the entire tenancy facing the street” and “the retail area must be a minimum of 15 feet in depth.”

According to the application, just one part of an 86-square-foot treatment room will overlap with the 15-foot area, though the commercial space there “has a particularly wide storefront” and, as such, the applicant is seeking administrative approval from the town. “Additionally, the floor plan demonstrates the personal service part of the establishment is not located along the building’s immediate frontage and is set back and hidden behind walls from the street view,” the application said.