The family firm that opened the Hand and Stone Massage at Dillingham Square in Lake Ridge will open a new franchise in Woodbridge.
Healthy Living Ventures, a mother-and-daughter franchise development team, is opening the first V/O Med Spa in Virginia in the Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center in Woodbridge on Friday, March 8, 2024.
V/O Med Spa services include skin rejuvenation treatments such as hydrafacials, peels, and microneedling, cosmetic injectables and fillers, wellness treatments including I/V Hydration, hormone replacement therapy, and weight loss services. The Spa will offer various medical-grade aesthetic products from ZO Skin, Skin Better, and Alastin.
“We are excited to bring an additional health and wellness brand to the Woodbridge Community.” Said Chanel Grant, Co-owner. “We looked at several med spa franchises and V/O aligned with everything we were looking for in a brand – innovation, safety and great products,” she said.
The firm uses individual treatment plans to administer noninvasive facial treatments, Botox, and fillers. The spa is located at 14900 Potomac Town Place, Suite 130 in Woodbridge, and will be open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Healthy Living Ventures, in business since 2015, is a woman and minority-owned, multi-unit, multi-brand franchise development company whose portfolio includes six Tropical Smoothie Cafes, three Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spas as a V/O Med Spa.
The company’s focus is franchise concepts that focus on healthy lifestyles and products.
“This pop-up store event was held to aid in accomplishing the administrator’s goal of advocation and promotion for small businesses and the approaching Small Business Saturday.”
“Come support Veterans Growing America in our mission on Small Business Saturday in Woodbridge, VA, at 15001 Potomac Town Pl Suite #130 between 11 am and 8 pm and visit vgapopupshop.com for more information.”
The Arts Council will celebrate Pride Month with a reception featuring a drag show exhibit.
Prince William Arts Council: “Prince William Arts Council and Open Space Arts is celebrating Pride Month with its “Pride at OSA” Opening Gala/Reception…Open Space Arts Gallery, Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center, 15000 Potomac Town Place, Woodbridge.”
“The free event will feature an exhibit and a drag show consisting of musical performances, circus acts, and more. Performers of the event include Evita Peroxide, Genocide Abrasax, Amanda Attention Adams, and Crickett.”
“The opening gala/reception is initially on Friday, June 23, 2023, at 6 p.m. Exhibition will run from June 21 – July 23, 2023. For more information, click here.”
Makya Little for Delegate: “On Monday, June 19, 2023—also known as Juneteenth—Little’s campaign will host their final pre-primary fundraiser featuring a performance by DeBarge. Working to create opportunities for community members, the campaign has also selected two local bands—TurnUpDeAnte & Co. and Izis la Enderma de la Salsa—to open for DeBarge at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Woodbridge that evening.”
“Eldra “El” Patrick DeBarge—an American singer, songwriter, and musician—was the focal point and primary lead singer of the family group DeBarge [during the 19880s]. Popular songs led by El DeBarge include “Stay with Me,” “All This Love,” and “Rhythm of the Night.”
Tickets for the political fundraiser range between $20 and $5,000. Little is running for the House of Delegates 19th District seat, created in 2021. The seat has no incumbent.
The district includes portions of southern Fairfax County and Woodbridge in Prince William County. The district leans heavily toward Democrats.
Little has two Democrat opponents running against her in a June 20 Primary Election — Rozia Henson and Natalie Shorter.
The emerging artist’s reception will be held on April 20, 2023, at 6 p.m. It will be at Open Space Arts Gallery, 15000 Potomac Town Place, in Woodbridge.
The reception is to help celebrate emerging artists at the Open Space Arts business.
The reception will showcase forty-five pieces of student artwork ranging from paintings to ceramics. The works were selected by a panel of local professional artists from a range of submissions.
“It’s been a really rough couple of years, especially for artists trying to promote and show off what they’re proud of,” said Herb Williams, art recreation specialist with the Prince William County Arts Council. “We’re incredibly overjoyed to partner with Open Space Arts and have a space that will help feature the work of our local artists, ensuring that they are celebrated and presented on an ongoing basis.”
The Prince William Arts Council and Open Space Arts are in charge of holding the reception. The reception is both open to the public and free to attend.
Work on a $53 million seven-story parking garage has begun in Woodbridge.
The 1,400-space Neabsco Parking Garage will sit between Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center and Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center (Wegman’s grocery store).
Prince William County officials plan a groundbreaking ceremony for the project at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 17, 2023. The garage was supposed to be built with a minor-league baseball stadium.
In 2018, the Potomac Nationals baseball team struck a deal with Fredericksburg and moved the team from Prince William to the city.
The county is moving ahead with the project despite losing the team. Operators of the Interstate 95 E-ZPass Express Lanes will build a new ramp from the toll lanes to Opitz Boulevard, making it easier for northbound drivers to exit the highway and park in the garage.
Prince William County Transportation Director Rick Canizales tells us:
The Parking Garage is a Design-Build project. We are currently clearing and grading the site as design is finalized. We started this part earlier this year.
In a Design-Build project you can do phases of a project in parallel, so we will continue to finalize the plans and get needed right-of-way, as we move forward with construction on approved portions of the plan where right-of-way is not needed, such as the area where the actual building will stand.
The project is expected to be fully completed by the Spring/Summer of 2024 (depending on weather).
Brew Republic Bierwerks, a craft brewery that closed in October 2022 after a water pipe burst and flood damage, is set to re-open in its existing location in Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center retail shopping area. The brewery hosted its grand reopening event on Saturday, March 4, 2023.
Montclair resident and former elected official Jeff Frederick and his team have been working tirelessly to rebuild the brewery that originally opened in September 2016, and now, after nearly four months.
Brew Republic features an in-house, state-of-the-art 10-barrel brewing system, along with a spacious bar, a roomy tap room seating area, indoor/outdoor biergarten seating, and a kitchen.
The beer is crafted by Brewmaster (Minister of Beer) Scott Kirk to echo local, regional, and national tastes and trends, and is billed as “something for everyone.”
Brew Republic Bierwerks, LLC is a veteran-owned small business originally opened in 2015. We brew our hand-crafted ales and lagers in 10-barrel batches at our 4,000-square-foot facility in the Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center in Woodbridge.
The show will be on display from February 1 – February 26, 2023, at the Open Space Arts Gallery at Stonebridge in Potomac Town Center. The exhibition is meant to showcase artwork surrounding African American Heritage, life, culture, and experiences.
Artists are invited to showcase how they would interpret different creative works in music, poetry, and monologues from different historical figures. All mediums are welcome based on the subject matter and historical figures named in the descriptive information below. All mediums of visual art are welcome. The collection selected for display will be curated by the Arts Recreation Specialist of Prince William County, Herb Williams.
The submission period closes Monday, January 16, 2023.
Music: Artwork based on Nina Simone’s song Mississippi Goddam and Mahalia Jackson’s song Keep Your Hand on the Plow
Monologue: Artwork based on Langston Hughes’s Negro Soldier and Freedoms Plow
Slave Narratives and Quotes: Selected moments in the lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Mary McLeod Bethune, Cicely Tyson, Paul Robeson, James Baldwin (Selected information will be provided upon request.)
Poetry: Artwork based on Langston Hughes’s Mother to Son
Interested artists may apply online here. Selected artists will be notified by Jan. 20. For more information, visit the OSA gallery webpage at pwcartscouncil.org. For assistance, contact Herb Williams, at [email protected]
ARtsits will be notified by January 20 of they’re selected. The deadline to submit art is January 29, 2023
The artwork will be collected at Open Space Arts Gallery, Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center, 15000 Potomac Town Place, in Woodbridge.
