The former location of Ric’s Grill on 24 Perron St. is taking on a new name and ownership.
The new restaurant will be called Blue Rare Steak & Bar. An opening date has not been set but the owner, Randy Keg, is expecting to open by early November.
The menu will feature a mix of steak, seafood, entrée-style salads and house-ground steak burgers.
Massage Addict is opening a new location at 13533 St. Albert Trail (corner of St. Albert Trail/137 Ave.) on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The business is Alberta’s first membership-based massage therapy clinic.
Massages offered include everything from Swedish to deep tissue, sports, myofascial, reflexology, hot stone and prenatal, as well as cranial sacral massages.
Costs vary from $39 for a one-hour introductory massage ($89 regular price) to $109 for a hot stone massage. For more information go to massageaddict.ca.
A new hair salon, spa and “men’s den” is expected to open in St. Albert on Nov. 1.
Suburbia Hair Spa is opening at #111, 150 Bellerose Drive, in the Shops at Boudreau. The salon will offer a number of services, including haircuts (plus styles and removal), hot shaves and barbering, spray tans and manicures and pedicures.
A grand opening will be held on Nov. 8, with specials offered for the entire month. Costs for haircuts start at $30 (men) and $60 (women). Hot shaves cost $40, while a spray tan ranges between $35 and $50. Manicures and pedicures start at $30/$40 (plus $20 for gel nails).
For more information visit Suburbia Hair Spa’s Facebook page.
The Realtors Association of Edmonton published its third quarter market report this month. Some of the highlights of the report are as follows (including details on the latest job statistics from the government of Alberta in brackets):
• The number of people employed in the greater Edmonton region in August was down from July but up by 2.3 per cent from August 2013, for a net additional 16,900 jobs (since January, Alberta added 69,100 jobs).
• The unemployment rate was 5.6 per cent in August, up marginally from the previous month (the jobless rate is now 4.4 per cent).
• Average weekly earnings were up 2.1 per cent in July from a year earlier to $1,063.
• Total net migration was down by 10 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014 to 25,575 persons (reductions occurred largely in the non-permanent resident numbers).
• Alberta’s population growth in the second quarter of 2014 was almost 2.5 times the national average but growth has moderated, edging downward in the past three quarters.
