Sunday, August 5, 2012

Spa Castle or Cattle Call?

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A theme park for adults?
Spa Castle, owned by a Korean, opened the first facility in Queens, NY. The second opened in March in Carrollton, TX. They chose the Texas location because of a close relationship with a large Korean grocery near by.
The owner researched the best spas all around the world and took the best and incorporated them into one facility.


The City of Carrollton changed their maximum height limit to allow the Spa Castle's height.
They have 80 employees which include 4 maintenance workers. They only promote from within so all their marketing etc is done 'in house'. The Spa Castle owns their own construction company and real estate firm.

The facility in New York is a $35 million investment and the facility in Texas is a third larger.

They have bars throughout the facility. Oxygen is pumped throughout the facility. There are meeting rooms, massage rooms and many unique saunas for coed use.

The outside pools are heated all year around and when they made the transition to Texas, they were unaware of the extreme heat and had to add chillers to the pools so they wouldn't be soooo hot.

An incredible amount of money was put into materials in the finish out as well as the different sauna domes.
An editor's note: Spa to me is to be relaxing and tranquil. There was nothing tranquil about the Spa Castle.



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