LINCOLN PARK — SpaDerma, the Chicago-based medical spa based in Lincoln Park practically 25 years in the past, is opening a brand new flagship location simply blocks from the place it acquired its begin.
The 4,500-square-foot area at 2001 N. Clybourn Ave. marks the corporate’s most superior website to this point. The Lincoln Park spa options soundproof remedy rooms, upgraded tools and new providers like Halo, a laser remedy unique to the brand new spa.
The area, which opened April 14, replaces SpaDerma’s longtime location at 1133 W. Armitage Ave. and is supposed to sign the corporate’s subsequent part of development, stated Charles Gelman, advertising and marketing supervisor at SpaDerma.
Helene Gelman, the corporate’s founder and proprietor, launched SpaDerma in 2001 after first experimenting with magnificence remedies above her hair salon, Salon 1800.
The salon’s second flooring turned a testing floor for medical spa providers together with facials, waxing and finally laser hair elimination and Botox, which on the time was simply beginning to achieve traction as a beauty remedy.
“She noticed that shift within the trade early on,” stated Charles Gelman, who’s Helene Gelman’s son. “Finally, the income from the upstairs area outpaced the complete 32-chair salon. That’s when she determined to go all in on SpaDerma.”
The enterprise has steadily grown from that authentic location to 5 websites throughout town and suburbs, together with Wicker Park, West Loop and Lakeview. However Lincoln Park, Charles Gelman stated, has all the time been core to the model’s id and its buyer base.
“After we pull knowledge on our clients, it all the time leads again to what Lincoln Park embodies,” he stated. “It’s all the time felt like residence to us.”
Charles and his brother Louis, who beforehand ran a haircare distribution firm, now lead the enterprise alongside their mom. They’ve overseen a current rebrand and modernization of SpaDerma’s choices.
“We’ve had folks stick to us since these very first years, which is wonderful,” Charles stated. “That type of loyalty says lots.”
With the brand new Lincoln Park flagship now open, the household sees the transfer not as a reset, however a return, albeit in a extra polished, high-tech kind.
“It’s only a very state-of-the-art, wonderful location,” Charles stated. “That authentic Lincoln Park area will all the time be very close to and pricey to our coronary heart. It’s a reasonably thrilling time.”
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