RELAXED NAILS & SPA OPENING IN BETHESDA AT WESTWOOD SHOPPING CENTER (PHOTOS)

Or is it Relax Nails & Spa?

A source has confirmed that Relaxed Nails & Spa has leased the former GNC space at the Westwood Shopping Center, on Westbard Avenue in Bethesda.

However, there is a national franchise called Relax Nails & Spa, so that may be the actual name.  In any case, this is going to be a nails and spa place, and renovations of the interior are underway.

I guess this is good news for women, but disappointing news for those who had hoped Westbard Avenue might get its first traditional, sit-down family restaurant since the mid-80s, when Farrell's closed. The former Farrell's is now Anglo Dutch, for you Bethesda trivia buffs.

CHAPTER TWO BOUTIQUE CONSIGNMENT SHOP OPENING IN BETHESDA

Another Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row Exclusive

Rita G.'s Chapter Two Boutique is coming to 4931 Cordell Avenue in downtown Bethesda.  An upscale consignment boutique, it joins a rapidly-multiplying number of such shops in downtown Bethesda.

INTERIORS OF WASHINGTON TAKING OVER FORMER MEMENZA JEWELERS SPACE ON NORFOLK AVENUE

BETHESDA STUDIO

MOVING ACROSS

TOWN

Another Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row Exclusive

Interiors of Washington, a 20-year-old interior design studio, is moving from Bradley Boulevard into the old Memenza Jewelers space on Norfolk Avenue.

There'll be quite a racket there in the short term, as the Norfolk-Cordell II project is being built right next door.  That site's old building has been demolished, as regular readers know.

WEIGHT WATCHERS LEASES PRIME SPACE AT SHOPS AT SUMNER PLACE

Bad news for those of us hoping a great restaurant or new post office would open at the Shops at Sumner Place:

The prime space has just been leased by Weight Watchers.

Of course, that's good news for nearby residents hoping to lose weight.  But WW already has a location at the venerable Westwood Center II on Ridgefield Road, barely a mile away.

The space is located between Starbucks and Passion Fin at Sumner Place, on Sangamore Road.

This news came the same day as reports claiming Jessica Simpson must lose 30 pounds by late August, or Weight Watchers will void her $4 million dollar bonus.  That doesn't sound like a healthy message for people struggling with weight or eating disorders.

I would much rather have a new restaurant at Sumner Place.