A New York City luxury day spa is planning to open a new location in Westchester County this fall.
Oasis Day Spa will open its doors this September in a newly constructed building at 50 Lawrence St. in Dobbs Ferry. The new building will also house a 35,000-square-foot New York Sports Club, a Smoothie King and a Starbucks.
Oasis currently has three locations in New York City: at 1 Park Ave; at John F. Kennedy International Airport; and at The Affinia Dumont Hotel on East 34th Street.
Owner Bruce Schoenberg was looking to open up a new location to replace a spa that was at Union Square, which was destroyed in a fire.
After scouting locations in the New York metro area, the Hastings resident noticed construction going on at the location in Dobbs Ferry and inquired about leasing space there.
Soon thereafter, Schoenberg had signed a lease for a 7,000-square-foot space on the building”™s mezzanine level.
“It”™s a perfect location for us,” he said.
Schoenberg said the location of the new spa, off exit 16 of the Saw Mill Parkway, and its proximity to an area of the county with more than 25,000 potential customers make it ideal.
“There are many nearby, driving communities we can serve,” he said, mentioning Scarsdale, Ardsley, Irvington, Yonkers, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow and Hastings-on-Hudson.
Schoenberg said the spa will have 16 different treatment rooms, such as a “wet room,” that will offer seaweed and clay wraps, plus salt rubs.
He also said the spa will offer a “Zen rooftop garden” where spa-goers have the option of an outdoor setting for their massage, weather-permitting.
In addition, there will be a 1,000-square-foot retail area that will sell spa-related products.
Schoenberg said the spa will also come with a feature found in his New York City establishments, a space set aside for corportate events.
He said with the large corporate presence in Westchester County, having such a space can be an asset to the business.
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“(A company) can hold an event or presentation there and tell people, ”˜Afterward you can use the spa,”™” he said.
Schoenberg first got the idea to open a day spa in the mid 1990s from his wife Marti, the co-owner of Oasis, who was a longtime physical therapist.
At the time, he said day spas were “an emerging part of our world.”
After opening up several spas in New York since 1998, Schoenberg, who moved to Westchester from New York City four years ago, realized it was the next natural region to expand to.
“I live here and I”™m a consumer in the area,” he said. “I think what we offer will be very popular here.
Schoenberg estimates the spa will employ about 100 employees once it is opened.
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