The Valencia Salon & Spa Boutique building is fairly a sight to see.
Just one conclude has all the many items a single can locate at the boutique from candles, soaps to cloths. The other conclusion is where the salon is found, which features the building’s unique brick walls as section of the décor.
“It’s terrific,” Paula O’Connell—who co-owns Valcenia Boutique with Pam Discoe—said of the setting up. “It took a small get the job done but not much.”
The boutique’s origins sprang from a comparable assumed O’Connell, Discoe and Valencia Salon & Spa operator Amy Williams had about Columbus. O’Connell stated they considered the region was lacking places to locate clothes that they savored.
“That was type of the premise behind opening the boutique and some of the styles that we have nonetheless right now,” O’Connell said.
Williams at first opened Valencia Salon & Spa in 2016. Not very long after opening, her keep would have a pop-up boutique—which finished up starting to be Valencia Boutique—every so usually.
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The reputation of the pop-up persuaded Williams, O’Connell and Discoe to have Valencia Boutique opened complete-time. Both equally the boutique – which was positioned in the salon’s basement—and salon, having said that, became so popular that it outgrew its former house in downtown Columbus.
Eventually, Williams, O’Connell and Discoe identified a larger making downtown unoccupied and made a decision to relocate to their new area, 2417 13th St., in August 2020.
“We just sort of outgrew it,” Williams said of their prior location. “When this put was accessible, we resolved to appear more than here and both be on the exact floor and flourish with each other.”
The organization is open up 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday.
Williams – who moved to Columbus in 2001 with her spouse, Craig – reported she normally wished to have her very own salon, as nicely as beloved the downtown. When the option presented by itself, she mentioned she determined to go with it.
“I like the aged and I really like to see matters refurbished and applied,” Williams stated of her fondness for downtown Columbus. “I feel we have a great downtown. There have been so numerous wonderful enterprises that have opened.”
She included she’s been amazed by how a lot the downtown has developed above the previous number of many years.
O’Connell – who grew up on a farm northeast of Columbus—had very similar views about the city’s downtown. She additional she hopes that downtown continues to do well for decades to arrive.
“We’re receiving there,” she reported. “We are obtaining far more terrific sites to shop downtown Columbus all the time. We want to be part of that. We think there’s a large amount of potential for progress even now today. … I’ve lived fundamentally in Columbus for my complete lifestyle so to see it prosper and thrive is really great.”
Williams said she’s surprised to see how far the businesses has appear.
“We started out in a minimal 8-by-8 area and this is how it flourished,” Williams reported.
