BUSINESS MOVES
FROM THE FILES OF YUMA SUN’S COMINGS AND GOINGS
From the files of Comings and Goings
WITH A CEREMONY on Sept. 6, the Cocopah Indian Tribe celebrated the groundbreaking of a new convenience store that will be located on Highway 95, across from the Cocopah Casino.
The new store is expected to open in the spring of 2020 and will feature 16 vehicle pumps, seven truck trailer diesel pumps, traffic signal access and bus and trailer parking.
It will also have an information center, coffee shop with drive-thru and a 19-door cooler and walk-in beer cave. The convenience store portion will occupy 9,060 square feet and have an expanded line of products.
Construction is expected to be finished in April 2020.
Border Boots closed its doors, but a Red Wing Shoe Store opened Sept. 9 in the same location at 1335 S. Pacific Ave., Suite 101A, across from Sam’s Club.
The store now goes by Red Wing, instead of Border Boots, and is owned by Red Wing Corporate.
Dallas Evans, owner of Border Boots, decided to retire and is enjoying his retirement driving cross country.
For more information, call 928-783-0558.
A store that some readers have been eagerly awaiting is Ulta Beauty, Cosmetic & Personal Care. The brand new store opened at 1448 S. Yuma Palms Parkway, Suite A, next to the newly opened Mor Furniture.
The chain beauty store offers cosmetics, makeup, fragrance, skincare, bath and body and hair care tools. Each store comes equipped with
a salon.
International and Commercial Realty, also known as IC Realty, is now located at 2604 S. 4th Ave., Suite B4, in the Desert Sun Plaza.
IC Realty also has a branch office in San Luis, Arizona, located at 444 N. Cesar Chavez St. and managed by Angelica Ortiz.
Joe A. Gomez, who manages the Yuma branch, said the company is a 100% locally owned and operated real estate brokerage firm. The brokerage is managed by longtime Yuma real estate agent and broker Doug Calvet.
IC Realty Yuma branch can be reached at 928-224-3939 and the San Luis branch at 928-627-8895.
YRMC Behavioral Health has moved from the YRMC Specialty Clinic to its own location in Tuscany Plaza.
The practice’s new name is Yuma Regional Medical Center Behavioral Health Tuscany Plaza with the following providers: Dr. Miguel Tosado; Sidonie Ngankeu, a boardcertified family nurse practitioner; and Anita Comstock, licensed professional counselor.
The Kress Ultra Lounge, 284 S. Main St., has a new owner, and he’s making a few changes to bring back a more “nightclub vibe.”
Robby Rodriguez, owner of Chretin’s Restaurant and Cantina, purchased the business from Clint Underhill, who still owns the building.
Eventually Rodriguez wants to fully equip the kitchen and offer food, probably in the rooftop space, but he hasn’t decided on the menu.
Marci Wardana is opening Chic Lash and Beauty Lounge at 202 S. 1st Ave., Suite 204, in the Gandolfo Building.
She will be offering lash services, makeup, skin and waxing as well as makeup and skin care products and a custom foundation bar.
Wardana is also the Arizona trainer for Novalash lash extensions and will be offering a certification class every month.
The Chic Lash and Beauty Lounge can be reached at 928-276-4894.
Jordan Anthony, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, is opening The Motor Pool at 11814 S, Foothills Blvd., Suite 12. The shop specializes in automotive engine blueprinting
and rebuilds “to suit your application and needs.”
Anthony explains in his website that “from daily drivers to drag cars and jet boats, if it has or needs and engine, we can do business.”
The shop also carries a small inventory of built engines ready to go out the door.
Call or text to 928-259-3216 for a quote.
After 63 years, Plaza Paint Store, 48 E. 3rd St., is closing its doors. It’s time to retire, said Marilyn Davis, who runs the store with daughters Meredith Young and Rebecca McIntier.
Well, Davis is sort of retiring. She and her daughters will still be busy running their two other businesses, the adjacent Yuma School Of Beauty and a residential rental business.
Plaza Paint dates back to 1956 when Bill’s father, Wesley Davis, opened the store in downtown Yuma. Bill and Marilyn took it over in 1977.
Somerton is growing, and proof is in two new restaurants that have recently opened.
The Great Harvest Mexican Restaurant And Grill, 663 E. Main St., recently celebrated its grand opening. As the name implies, the new restaurant has a “delicious Mexican menu.” It can be reached at 928-315-6140.
Rosa Blanca Restaurant, 714 E. Main St., is also now open for breakfast and lunch. Its specialty is chilaquiles in the style of Guanajuato.
The restaurant notes that “all of our authentic dishes are made from scratch using only the freshest seasonal ingredients, offering unique and delicious and homemade recipes.”
Rosa Blanca is located inside the San Miguel de Allende Venue.
The hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Reach the restaurant at 928-581-9545.
SVN Velocity Commercial Real Estate has announced that 928X Motorsports LLC purchased the brand-new light industrial building at 12209 S. Avenue 4E. The business plans to open a state-of-the-art automotive repair shop as well as an aftermarket accessories shop in January.
928X Motorsports is a family-owned and -operated business “that will be committed to providing a level of service that people of Yuma deserve and demand,” Velocity said.
The 12,846-square-foot building is located close to the brand new 100,000-square-foot Almark Food Processing Facility as well as Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and Yuma International Airport.
Yuma Sun readers have been asking what’s going on at the former site of the Jack in the Box near the Foothills Walmart. The space is being converted into a Wendy’s.
The fast-food burger chain took out building permits for tenant improvements and an addition at 8007 E. 32nd St. Word is the restaurant will open before the end of the year.
A new Chipotle Mexican Grill in Yuma is a special one because it’s the first one in Arizona that has a drive-thru pickup lane, or a “Chipotlane,” as spokesperson Carly Connor calls it.
Connor noted that the new restaurant located at 3080 S, 4th Ave., in the parking lot of the Southgate Mall, has a lane that allows customers to pick up digital orders without leaving their cars. To use the Chipotlane, customers should first order online or via the app. They will then receive a notification with the time their order will be ready. Once the order is ready, they may proceed to the drive-thru lane to claim their digital order from the pick up window.
The restaurant is the second Chipotle location in Yuma, and normal hours of operation are from 10:45 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week.
Another new restaurant in Yuma is the Burger Theory, which opened inside the Holiday Inn at 1901 E. 18th St. The space used to house Kem’s Restaurant. It has undergone a total remodel and now has red and black decor and a high bar and fireplace.
As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in burgers and has eight special burgers on the menu.
It serves breakfast and dinner and offers appetizers and standards such as omelettes, burritos, huevos rancheros, waffles, fish tacos and steak salads.
Breakfast is served from 6-11 a.m. and dinner from 4-10 p.m. If there is enough demand, the restaurant will open for lunch. The full-service bar is open until 11 p.m., and serves everything from wine, beer, margaritas, martinis and more.
A business that is coming soon is Lapel’s Dry Cleaning. The company will open a franchise at 2595 S. 4th Ave., in the same building as USA Pawn.
According to its website, Lapels provides the “world’s only 100% environmentally non-toxic dry cleaning process.” Services include professional dry cleaning, laundry, alterations, shoe repair, gown preservation and rug cleaning. It will also accept leather, suede, comforters and household items.
For more information, call 928-259-7350.
After practicing in Yuma for 57 years, Dr. Leo Land has officially closed Chaparral Veterinary Clinic, 1963 S. Arizona Ave.
“I enjoy the work. I’m going to miss the people and of course the dogs and the cats. I love the pets, I always enjoy seeing them. Especially the young ones, the puppies and the kittens coming in,” he said. Land, 82, spent all but the first 10 years of his career in the Chaparral clinic. He is still hoping someone will lease the building from him, for that purpose.
His office will be open at times for a few weeks to allow staff to copy patient records and for clients to pick them up. He has about 8,000 pet patients on file.
Dr. Land and his wife, Jo Ann, who managed the clinic’s business aspects, plan to take it easy as they spend time with their cat and two dogs.
Saigon Pho, located at 700 E. 32nd St., on the site of the former Yuma Queen International Market, opened in
late September.
Saigon Pho specializes in pho, a Vietnamese soup made with broth, rice noodles, herbs and meat.
“Our pho is freshly cooked with select choice meats,’ owner Vinh Vo said, noting the restaurant focuses on
three kinds: vegetarian, beef and seafood.
The restaurant will also offer other Vietnamese dishes, such as grilled pork and filet mignon over rice as well as Vietnamese-style egg rolls and spring rolls.
He’ll be adding more dishes to the menu. He’s been playing with 30 to 50 items, but first he wants to test out what the locals want before he settles on a final menu.
Saigon Pho will open from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 12 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.
To reach Saigon Pho, call 928-276-4347.
A new veteran-owned and -operated store is offering sports supplement and vitamins to Yumans. On Sept. 10, Nanook Nutrition opened its doors at 3939 Avenue 3E, Suite 118, in the Alarcon Center, right across from the Marine Corps Air Station.
The owners are Michael Erickson and his brother-in-law, Manny Manzano, who is active-duty military. Manzano is the one who noticed the lack of supplement brands in Yuma and told Erickson that this would be a good place to open a store that offers a variety of brands not available locally. Nanook is the Inuit name for polar bear, which is part of the store’s logo. The Inuit are the indigenous people in Alaska, and Erickson hails from there.
For more information, call 928-248-4198.
Robert Haworth is launching two new businesses: the YES Business Network, a brand new business networking group that is powered by a digital platform called the YES Home Network.
YES is an acronym for Your Elite Service, he explained. His platform is a digital communications and referral marketing platform.
“I developed a faster and easier way for businesses to connect and market to their customers and for customers to connect back to their elite services by using the latest in artificial intelligence technologies, interactive voice response systems, and coming soon, Alexa and Google home services,” he added.
For more information, call Haworth at 239-7706559.