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Two-and-a-half years after Glow 365 opened its first brick-and-mortar location in the Commerce Arts District, the business continues to get bigger and is now headed to a downtown Wichita home.
Owner Jill Crotty said she's aiming for a high-end luxury medical spa and wellness center look and feel as Glow 365 targets a June or July opening at 142 N. Mosley in Old Town.
Crotty, a nurse practitioner, said she's seen interest in the holistic, natural services she offers only increase since opening in 2021.
Now, she's leasing 6,700 square feet — well over double her footprint in the Finn Lofts at 430 S. Commerce.
"We're just growing," she said. "The demand and the need is there."
Crotty said she'd been looking for more than half a year for another downtown spot — one preferably with great parking.
After a tour of the property, she said she knew it could be Glow 365's long-term home.
"The exterior walls are all brick, and then you've got ceilings that are wood," she said, "with really big wood beams, which I love and am not going to change, because I love the character."
Glow 365 will be located across the second and third floors of the three-story building that shares its northern wall with River City Brewing Company.
Lyndsey Gould and Krista Lowry at J.P. Weigand & Sons represented Crotty on the 10-year lease, while Street Commercial's Evan LaRue and Ben Reed repped Steve Lewallen and Tim Dudte of HFG Architecture on the landlord side.
Jaco is the general contractor leading the renovation project to get the space ready, with 3ten Architecture as the architect. Construction is expected to start in the next 7-10 days.
Crotty said the second floor will have an aesthetic focus, with six rooms for injection treatments and laser services. That floor will also have women's health services, including exams and hormone consulting, as well as men's testosterone therapy and wellness — a recent addition to Glow 365's service offerings.
The third floor will be wellness focused, she said. It'll have hybrid sauna and infrared rooms for men and for women, a place for couple's massages, two facial esthetician rooms and an IV wellness area.
"It's going to be more serene on the wellness floor and a little more upbeat on the aesthetic floor," she said.
The space will have reception areas on each level and also will include retail. The business has a medical weight loss program, as well.
As she advances toward the new location opening, Crotty said she's preparing to roll out tiered memberships for customers.
"We've got a lot of things in the works," she said. "I think it'll be a really nice place for people that just want to go to one location and cover inner wellness and outer beauty."
Also tied to Glow 365's growth, Crotty said she expects her team, which recently had six people, to grow to 10 or more in the months ahead.
Crotty said her women's health services — where she works with clients on the root cause of hormone imbalance and aims for holistic solutions — has continued to grow in demand, and that she currently has a two-month wait. While she gets help from her team on other offerings, Crotty is the only one at Glow 365 who provides those specific services.
That brings with it what Crotty calls her biggest challenge: managing work-life balance as she tries to serve as many women as possible.
"I just don't want people to have to wait, and so that's where the soft side of my heart comes in," said Crotty, who added that training someone else to do what she does would be a 6- to 12-month process, but that she hopes to do so in the next four to five years.