Athletics Clips Haircuts, a sports activities-themed salon franchise headquartered in Georgetown, Texas, has joined the expanding quantity of retail establishments at Westbrook’s Rock Row enhancement.
Situated at 95 Rock Row, Athletics Clips is managed by Kate Vercoe and staffed by a team of seven employees. The salon is one particular of almost 1,900 Sports Clips places across the United States in Canada.
Sporting activities Clips offers haircuts and other providers to guys and boys surrounded by screens broadcasting sporting occasions so that they will not miss a basket, landing, home operate or gap-in-a single whilst getting groomed.
The new Sports Clips salon at Rock Row was inaugurated at a modern ribbon-chopping ceremony. Hair cuts begin at $23 for the MVP Haircut Experience, which includes a scorching steamed towel and massaging shampoo and neck and shoulder therapy buyers can e book appointments and examine in on line or by way of the Hair Clips app.
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Westbrook Mayor Michael Foley
“This company adds to this desired destination-oriented growth where residents and guests can consider treatment of their lots of desires in one particular spot,” Westbrook Mayor Michael Foley advised Mainebiz. “Possessing skilled some of their choices, I encourage everyone to check out it out.”
Requested how he fees the haircut he acquired there, he said, “It was fantastic, surely a one of a kind working experience of far more than just your ordinary haircut.”
On a far more typical take note, Foley not long ago explained to Mainebiz, “We anticipate construction of residential units and extra business tasks at Rock Row close to the close of 2023.”
Rock Row, designed around a 400-foot deep, 26-acre organic quarry, is a $600 million, 100-acre blended-use advancement showcasing a retail and growth district with outlets, restaurants and overall health and wellness providers. Other firms incorporate an 80,000-square-foot Market Basket grocery keep that opened in 2020, Chick-fil-A, and sporting-items retailer REI Co-op.
Rising franchise
Somewhere else in Maine, Sports Clips has locations in Bangor, Biddeford, Portland’s Northgate Plaza buying middle, Topsham and Waterville’s Elm Plaza browsing centre.
Established in 1993 and franchised in 1995, Sporting activities Clips is ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine as No. 30 in its Franchise 300 listing and is listed in Franchise Direct’s 2021 leading 100 world franchises, in accordance to a information release. Entrepreneur Magazine also named Sports Clips a 2021 leading franchise for veterans, the company reported.
Franchises are big business in Maine, which offers 72 franchise brand names and 1,433 models from eateries to retail shops and other enterprises owned by 864 franchisees, in accordance to info compiled for Mainebiz previous 12 months by FRANdata, a marketplace investigate company based mostly outside the house of Washington, D.C.
