Lunar Massage

A new business called Lunar Massage (www.lunarmassagedc.com) specializing in seated-chair and fully clothed table massages for on-the-go professionals was featured in Washingtonian this week.


Owner Joanna Robinson describes her business as "a “middle ground” between a spa and the seated-chair massage or tiny massage clinics set up in malls or offices. Each of her seven on-call therapists is a licensed practitioner trained in therapies such as medical massage, sports massage, and shiatsu. The price starts at $26 for 20 minutes and goes up to $108 for 90 minutes."


Lunar Massage is located at 1101 5th Street NW - just across New York Avenue from Safeway's main entrance.

Lunar Massage featured in Business Week

Joanna Robinson of Lunar Massage (1101 5th Street NW) is featured this month's edition of Business Week Small Business. The cover story entitled Beyond Eureka outlines a 5 step process for entrepreneurs that deliberately pick their product. Joanna was one of the 20 entrepreneurs BW profiled and they selected her photo for cover of the magazine.

For past blog coverage of the Lunar Massage follow this link.

Lunar / Mars massage rivalry

A reader sent me info about a one day discount program at Lunar Massage. I have limited internet access this week so I didn't read the message until the program was sold out. But I like the cleverness of the Mars versus Lunar aspect of the ad and thought I'd share that below:


For the rest of the ad visit Groupon. Customer reviews for this new small business can be found on Yelp.

MyRadius

MyRadius was created by a small business owner for small business owners to have better exposure to area residents and so those residents can have better information about local offerings. MyRadius is intended to be a useful platform for community-based news and information. The pilot version of the platform is being implemented in October 2009 in the Mt. Vernon/Convention Center neighborhood in Washington DC.


The project is a collaboration by local business owners and spearheaded by Joanna Robinson of Lunar Massage.

2009 Year in Review

This past year was a busy year for the neighborhood and the blog. We published 414 postings, more than doubled the prior year's site traffic and welcomed Kim as a new regular contributor in August.

Events

• Presidential Inauguration
  
• 2nd & Mass Tree Planting
  
• MVT Homes Tour
  
• Heart of DC Picnic
  
• New weekly Farmer's Market on Mount Vernon Square

Open for Business

• Lunar Massage
  
• The Passenger
  
• Taylor Gourmet
  
• Absolute Thai
  
• Henry's Soul Cafe
  
• Ping Pong Dim Sum
  
• Urfa Tomato Kabob
  
• Royal Thai Cuisine
  
• Chinatown Coffee
  
• Vapiano

The Promise of More to Come

• The Arts at 5th and Eye
  
• Buddha Bar
  
• Kushi
  
• 29,000 SF of retail at 425 Eye
  
• Ming's
  
• Fourth Street reconfiguration underway
  
• Public art installations at Madrigal Lofts and City Vista
  
• Updated Mount Vernon Place site plan
  
• New corporate ownership at the DuMont
  
• DDOT unveils streetcar network proposal

A few of my other fave posts

• Future of the K Street Streetscape
  
• Chinese Community Church exterior upgrade complete
  
• Discussion on temporary urbanism
  
• Ledo building is swiss cheese
  
• Updated design for 2nd & Mass Park
  
• What can be done with 4th & L?
  
• Bye-Bye Billboards
  
• Plans for Chinatown Park
  
• Pets of Mount Vernon Triangle
  
• Shepard Fairey poster removed in Chinatown
  
• Can't pick one? Go with two and stack them

Top Referral Sites

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