Hair Design Salon, Glow Boutique shift to downtown site

CHEBOYGAN — The new location for Hair Design Salon and Shine Boutique officially opened at 215 N. Primary St. on Monday, Feb. 21 from its earlier place at 1111 E. State St.

The new area has more foot traffic and visibility, according to proprietor Nicki Kryska. 

Kryska purchased the building previous May perhaps with the intention of respiratory existence again into the far more than 100-yr-aged building in downtown Cheboygan. Just before currently being taken more than by Kryska, the area was an vehicle pieces store, but has stood vacant for numerous a long time.

“We’re observing this resurgence in Cheboygan which is definitely awesome and so I needed to be a element of that,” Kryska claimed. “This developing was pretty an eyesore, and I just noticed the potential.”

Work to refurbish 215 N. Main St. took place from May 2021 to February 2022. The finished Hair Design Salon and Shine Boutique opened on Monday, Feb. 21 after almost a year of construction on the more than 100-year-old building.

Kryska has owned the salon for 5 years and in June 2020, resolved to add Glow Boutique to the small business.

Her very long-time mate and co-operator of the boutique, Cherish Wilcome, is also the salon massage therapist. When Kryska brought up the thought of getting and renovating the downtown locale, Wilcome claimed she was fully onboard.

“Now was the time to do it,” she explained. “Cheboygan is performing this beautification procedure appropriate now. So numerous buildings are receiving face lifts and we were all about jumping on board. We had been prepared to increase to have a lot more sq. footage, a lot more space. We expanded into men’s apparel as perfectly, which prior to we ended up only accomplishing women’s, so I was all about it.”