Tropical Day Spa has opened on W. Vernor between Clark and Scotten, across the street from Clark Park. The spa offers massages, facials, manicures and pedicures, make-up application, waxing, foot and hand therapy and body scrubs.
Owner Rita Birseno, a hair salon vet, intended to open a day spa and settled on her location soon after SER-Metro began rehabbing the building she now occupies a couple of years ago. "I like this neighborhood," she says. "People here are down-to-earth."
Tropical is the first salon to open in Southwest Detroit. "I want people who work hard
to be able to come here and relax," she says. "That's why there's no
TV, only music." Birseno
plans to add a sauna to the basement soon.
The building as a whole has 12 affordable residential units and 6,500
square feet of commercial space. Birseno says a coffee house is in
talks to be the next commercial tenant.
The price for an all-inclusive half-day spa package (massage, eyebrow waxing, make-up, manicure and pedicure and lunch) is $130. A manicure costs $10, a pedicure $25, and a half-hour facial $30.
Tropical's hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The address is 4214 W. Vernor; call 313-843-1281.
Source: Rita Birseno, Tropical Day Spa
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh
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