King Spa Virginia opens Wednesday in South Riding, not quite eight years after its Illinois parent first pitched plans for the huge Korean-style spa at the East Gate Marketplace retail center.
The third facility to open under the King Spa brand, after others in Chicago and Dallas, the roughly 62,500-square-foot building at 25330 Eastern Marketplace relegates Centreville’s Spa World, which comes in at more than 50,000 square feet, to the status of Greater Washington’s second largest Korean spa. The Washington Business Journal toured King Spa Tuesday with John Kim, the facility’s general manager and a member of the family that owns the spa chain.
Inside the building is a series of spas, saunas, relaxation rooms, treatment rooms, indoor and outdoor pools and other water elements. To encourage people to stay, the facility also includes a cafeteria that serves Korean food, salads, juices, tea and other items, according to the menus posted on other King Spa locations’ websites.
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