![]() Individual practices advertise their own services, but the building as a whole is a member of the SCABA, the South Chicago Avenue Business Association. Shenandoah Wellness Center is apparently a collective. So, with four suites of professional offices, each housing 10 or more practices of which perhaps a third or more are massage therapy, there may be as many as 20 bodywork therapists to choose from on one very busy corner. ![]() And finally, on the same side of Chicago but in the next block north, after Turtle Bread, and the pizza, and the ice cream, is yet another suite of professional offices, this one called the Parkway Office Building, with more massage, alternative healing and psychotherapy. On the west side of Chicago between 48th and 49th is a building called Chicago Plaza Suites, which houses about a dozen more various practices, including the Family Enhancement Center, about which more below. It has perhaps a dozen or more practices housed part-time within, about a third psychotherapy, a third massage, a third “other.” Then on the upstairs level of the Shenandoah Building proper, there are 10 or more private practices of various kinds. First, across 48th Street from the coffee shop, there is a group of many healing practices in a little building detached from the Shenandoah Building called the Shenandoah Wellness Center. After lunch, we decided to try to see just how many alternative wellness places there were in a four-square-block area. They have excellent food there (we had a spinach pie and some roasted balsamic brussels sprouts) and it may be the most kid friendly coffee shop in town, with an entire room dedicated to an indoor playground where moms with young children can (semi-) relax on their own with their kids. We started our exploration with a nice lunch at the coffee shop Sovereign Grounds. We did a quick site visit of the corner last week to check out the state of things. So, we’re looking at some healing organizations and one new and interesting retail business which could also be said to have a therapeutic or at least self-improvement aspect. Nothing much is happening with the restaurants and such they just keep ticking along for the most part. The retail mix includes a movie theatre turned multimedia venue, several good casual restaurants and pubs, a coffee house, various retail shops, and absolutely bags of alternative wellness practices and psychotherapists, along with the odd life coach and a lawyer or two. In general, things are pretty stable around this location, with its prosperous but not flashy real estate, great schools, and strong neighborhood organizations and business owners’ association. Overall, it seemed like the hotel staff was trying hard to do a good job, despite the fact that Hyatt, as a corporation, is doing a poor job with their hospitality services.We have discovered some interesting goods and services on Chicago Avenue around the 48th Street commercial hub. The hotel's food was terrible (again, they use Covid as an excuse), despite the fact that every restaurant in town seems to be able to have a good menu with decent food service. But if the hotel was SO worried about their staffs' safety and getting too close to clients, why then did they continue with their bar/bartender services when the bartender is literally inches away from every client they serve (all day)?! (Answer: because the bar generates revenue for the hotel, and housekeeping is a cost to them). Despite this major reduction in services, they room prices were the same no reduction in price despite reduction in service. The hotel suspended daily housekeeping "due to Covid", for the "safety of their staff." We had to remove our own garbage daily, clean the room ourselves daily, and try to get clean towels, and throw the dirty ones out into the hallway along with the garbage. Our two biggest complaints were housekeeping and the food/restaurant. The staff was very good and helpful, and when we needed something, they did a good job getting us what we needed. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency twice this summer for conventions.
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