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Daily Local News
August 17, 2006
Going into 100 W. State St., at the intersection of State and Union, is Picone Beauty & Wellness, an electrolysis and skin-care business.
Mother-and-daughter owners Sara Picone and Rosalie Brett will soon move north from their current location in Wilmington, Del.'s, Trolley Square.
They hope to open by Labor Day in their new spot, the former Stephens Men's Wear, which has been vacant for at least five years.
The building is now painted a bright Naples yellow, in addition to receiving other improvements and upgrades.
Next door, at 102 W. State St., will be a new "chef-driven gourmet market," according to Bryan Sikora. He owns the new business with wife and business partner Aimee Olexy.
Hoping to open in November, their new venture -- still lacking a name -- will occupy a storefront vacated by My Sister's Shoes more than three years ago.
Those familiar with the Philadelphia restaurant scene will recognize Sikora's and Olexy's names. They owned Django, a much-loved restaurant off of South Street on Fourth. They sold the business almost a year ago.
Patrick Giacomini and Susan Teiser, the husband and wife who own the two buildings, bought them in January 2005 from two separate owners and have looked for appropriate tenants ever since.
Giacomini and Teiser (pronounced TY-zer), who live in Kennett, also own Montrachet Catering and the Centreville Café on Route 52 in nearby Centreville, Del.
Commented Teiser, "Each of these businesses is right for Kennett Square. We're longtime residents here and we wanted to bring in businesses the surrounding area could support."
Added Mary Hutchins, executive director of Historic Kennett Square, "These two storefronts have been vacant for a very long time. They were an eyesore and a bone of contention with other borough merchants because their location was so visible.
"But now we have wonderful new tenants coming in, tenants with proven track records."
Asked why she and her mother chose Kennett Square for their skin care business, Brett responded, "We wanted to be in an up-and-coming area. Electrolysis, which my mother has been doing for 30 years, is a business where customers seek you out because there are so few people who do it.
"But, once we expanded to skin care and massages, we needed to be in a more visible place."
Picone Beauty will also sell jewelry and accessories, antiques, French-milled soaps, men's skin care products and baby/maternity skin care lines.
Added Sikora, who most recently cooked at Sovana Bistro at Willowdale Crossing, "We wanted to do something in a community on the edge, a place about to happen. And we both love Kennett Square. (Sikora's wife) Aimee grew up in West Chester."
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