Lowell business relocates
Day spa moves into well-known buildingBy Patrick Cooley, pcooley@mariettatimes.com
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Connection
Day Spa
Its new location is on Ohio 60 in Lowell.
The hours are noon to 5 p.m. on Monday and 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. It is occasionally open later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
At the end of May, one of the signature businesses in Lowell moved from its former location into a well-known building on Main Street.
Connection Day Spa owner Linda Lohr said she moved her business because the new location was much larger and allowed them greater flexibility.
"We had outgrown our previous location about five years ago," she said. "We needed more space. We offer so many services; now we can do them all at once."
Lohr said the move would also make the business more accessible.
"It puts us in the center of all the activity that goes on (in Lowell)," she said. "We're right across the street from the fire department and the rescue squad. There is quite a bit of business in this area."
Lohr said the new location is 31/2 times the size of the former old building. The business is considering hiring new employees in the future.
"We haven't crossed that bridge yet," Lohr said. "But it is something we are going to look at in the future."
The building was previously owned by Bill Peoples, whose family first moved into it and used it as a residence in 1947. They lived there until the early 1990s, and earlier this year sold it to Lohr.
"It was the house I grew up in," Peoples said.
He said the building been a part of the town since it was constructed in end of the 19th century.
The house was attached to the Peoples Furniture Store and Bill S. Peoples Funeral Home, which shared a building. That structure has since been torn down.
In 1977, the year after he returned to Marietta, Bill Peoples bought the Cawley Funeral Home. In 1979, he purchased his father's funeral business and formed Cawley & Peoples Funeral Home.
Peoples said he approves of the work Lohr has done in turning the house into a day spa.
"She's done a marvelous job with it," he said. "Our family's very pleased with what she's done."
Alicia Stevens, 39, of Lowell has been a customer of Connection for almost 25 years.
"I've been coming here since I was a sophomore in high school," she said. "I love the new building; now it's a lot closer to a luxury spa."
Stevens now takes advantage of the mother-daughter packages the spa offers, bringing her 6-year-old daughter, Chloe.
"I teach at beauty schools throughout Ohio," Lohr said. "I've gotten to go to some of the salons across the state which are the best of the best, and I've been able to bring some of those elements back here."
She also said the new building has been made handicap accessible. The spa now has several disabled customers they can to accommodate.
