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TIPP CITY — Both clientele and Tipp City officials are soaking up the pride in showcasing of one of the town’s newest renovated business sites.
Broadway Hair Studio & Co. is the result of an extreme makeover of a supermarket in one of the oldest yet busiest blocks in this growing community of 15,000.
Owner of the spacious 4,000-square-foot salon is Debbie Dungan, a Bellbrook High School/JVC beauty school graduate who has spent 20-plus years as a beautician.
Her original Broadway Salon business was located a short distance away.
Dungan, living what she calls “a dream come true that originated from a premonition,” opened her new site in July, and has been awarded a Facade Improvement Award by Tipp City Partnership, an organization dedicated to the task of perking up and beautifying the downtown district.
Located at 26 S. Second St., the well-equipped and full-service salon includes a tanning room, an airbrush tanning room, a massage room, a facial room, a wax room, a pedicure room, manicure area and a shampoo area featuring five state-of-the-art shampoo chairs with the latest equipment.
As a full business venture in the 8,000-foot original Town & Country Market building, Dungan is in the process of adding three separate business areas for rent, one at 855 square feet and two at 960 square feet.
“The store areas would be ideal locations for a women’s or children’s stores,” Dungan said.
Currently staffed by 10 hair stylists, a masseuse, three receptionists and a manicure-pedicure specialist, the salon also provides toys for the children of visiting moms.
“It wasn’t easy getting the needed funds to complete the deal,” said Dungan, “but a lot of people helped in many ways, including financially.”
The crew includes Mary Roemke, Penny Wallace, Hillary Olin Kihm, Christina Hensley-Stower, Cathy Perry, Vicky Reed, Andrea Lambert and Moya Mote, a Master Paul Mitchell hair stylist from a Mitchell Focus salon in Huber Heights, who is the newest addition.
Head massage therapist is Lisa Ratterman, and airbrush-tanning expert Renee Fair was to begin working at the salon this week.
The business includes remodeled front and back entrances with a parking lot in back. The three spaces for rent have front entrances.
Dungan said credit for the master plan and business makeover “has to go to Mike Hawk Homes, a Tipp City company that understood our plans. My husband (Mike Dungan) and I were so impressed with Hawk Homes and give that firm a lot of credit for saving the project.”
But Debbie Dungan can’t forget that special premonition she had in January 2010.
“It was the start of a long and tough climb ... but we made it,” she said.
Contact this writer at (937)236-6032; mickeyz@zoomtown.com.
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