Biz Buzz: Health and wellness medical spa opens in Short Pump – Richmond.com

Erasing facial wrinkles and lines with Botox and plumping up lips and cheeks with products such as Juvederm and Radiesse is big business.

Spending on facial injectables topped more than $2 billion in the U.S. in 2015, according to one report.

Betting on that trend, Dominion Womens Health & Wellness Med Spa moved into larger quarters in June.

Formerly located in a 500-square-foot space in Mechanicsville, the medical spa moved to a 2,600-square-foot space at 11739 W. Broad St. in The Shoppes at Westgate in Short Pump. The space was previously occupied by Jingles Bridal Salon, which closed in 2015 when the owner retired.

The medical spa is a division of Dominion Womens Health Inc., an obstetrics and womens health practice with medical offices in Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico counties and Tappahannock.

We offer a pretty progressive menu of treatments, said Badeha Hamze, spa director and a master esthetician. We do all sorts of facials and waxing like a normal spa would.

In addition, spa staff procedures include facial chemical peels, microdermabrasion, dermaplaning, microneedling, permanent hair reduction, laser resurfacing for scars, and laser liposis body contouring.

Our vision has always been the integration of beauty and medicine, and now with our expanded location in Short Pump, we can offer a more complete array of services, including bio-identical (hormone replacement therapy), in a convenient location, said Dr. Danny Shaban, founder of Dominion Womens Health and medical director at DWH Health & Wellness Med Spa.

The interior design for the new space was done by Gaylin Vandenbroucke. Henrico County-based Freeman Morgan Architects did the architecture work, and MGT Construction was contractor for the renovations, which cost an estimated $425,000.

Need some junk lugged away?

Businessman Andy Taylor has opened a local franchise of The Junkluggers moving company, which bills itself as an eco-friendly junk hauling service.

Our mission is to give these items that are no longer wanted or needed a second use or second home, Taylor said.

Whatever we cant donate, we recycle through about a dozen different partners in the area we work with. Our whole guise is not to put things in the landfill, he said.

The Junkluggers of Central Virginia at 12104 Washington Highway, Unit 7, in Ashland opened in July. Taylor, who said he has two employees, opened the franchise after taking a buyout from his previous employer, a media solutions company that was a division of Texas-based Harland Clarke.

We spent about four months looking for opportunities, said Taylor, referring to himself and his wife, Melody Taylor.

The cost to have The Junkluggers haul away depends on how much room items take up in The Junkluggers truck. Taylor said there is a minimum $60 fee for a job, and estimates are available at no charge.

In cases where the collected items are donated to charities, customers receive a tax-deductible receipt for the item, Taylor said.

The Junkluggers company started in 2004 and is based in Stamford, Conn. The company started offering franchises in 2013. According to the company website, the franchise fee is $35,000.

2nd Beef Jerky Outlet opens in Hanover

Craving some chewy, spicy slivers of dried meat?

A second Beef Jerky Outlet has opened in Hanover County.

Jeff and Debbie Gelzinis and son Nick are owners of the franchise at 6493 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Unit B, near the intersection of Jackson Arch Drive.

Jerky is a high-protein, easy-to-carry-around snack popular among people on the go, such as hunters and other outdoorsy types. Beef, turkey, bacon, kangaroo, alligator, venison, elk and salmon are some of the types of jerky available.

The Beef Jerky Outlet in Mechanicsville is the chains second area location.

A Beef Jerky Outlet that opened in 2012 at 11670 Lakeridge Parkway, next to Bass Pro Shops, in Hanover County is operated by husband-and-wife team Allen and Kelly Musick.

Tennessee-based Beef Jerky Outlet was founded in 2010. The company operates six founder-owned stores and has more than 100 franchise locations.

Tidewater Physical Therapy firm acquired

Maryland-based Pivot Physical Therapy acquired Tidewater Physical Therapy, which operated locations in Hampton Roads and Richmond.

The acquisition was completed last year but only recently announced by the company.

Prior to the purchase, Newport News-based Tidewater Physical Therapy had more than 360 employees at 34 clinics and three performance centers from Virginia Beach to Richmond.

With the acquisition, Pivot Physical Therapy has more than 50 locations in Virginia and nearly 250 locations along the East Coast. There are 15 locations in the Richmond region, including former ProCare physical therapy practices that were part of another Pivot acquisition.

Of the companys 2,400 employees, 384 are in Virginia, including 120 in the Richmond area.

The Restroom Kit earns $10,000 prize

Former Richmond-area resident Bill Massey took home the $10,000 top prize on reality TV show Steve Harveys Funderdome on Aug. 6.

The show features entrepreneurs and their new products competing for investment money.

Masseys product, The Restroom Kit, contains a toilet seat cover, toilet paper and sanitary wipes everything you need when using a public restroom.

Massey and his wife, Sonia, were on the show. He said they may use the prize money for marketing, office space and paying off business debt.

Since were a product development company, the money could be used for new product design, Massey said. We could definitely use the funds for more inventory, and moving the business from our home into a office space/warehouse would be great.

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