Real Estate

Is Massage Envy Still Coming Soon to La Cañada ?

The sign says the business is opening, but no deal has yet been struck to bring the franchise to LCF.

Many folks in town have been curious to see what shop would end up at 659 Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge since the storefront was home to longtime business Diane's Hallmark for 31 years.

Several months ago, a sign went up at the empty storefront at the Plaza de La Canada Shopping Center saying a Massage Envy was "Coming Soon." Massage Envy is a massage therapy franchise with hundreds of locations around the country and numerous ones in the greater Los Angeles area. 

As home to Vons, T.J. Maxx, Zeli Coffe Bar, Los Gringos Locos, the new Goodie Girls cupcake shop and several other businesses, the shopping complex always seems to be full of cars and customers bustling about. But since the "Coming Soon" sign was hung, the storefront at 659 has remained empty for months but for a few tools and cans of paint lying on the floor, with no signs of any renovations underway.

Patch reached out to Massage Envy to find out what was happening with the location. 

"No Massage Envy franchisee has a lease completed with any property in La Canada. The landlord at Foothill should not have posted that sign," said Andrew Garsten, a regional developer for Massage Envy in the Los Angeles area, in an email. "We do expect to open a location somewhere in the La Canada area in the next 3-5 months."

We then reached out to Property Development Centers, which owns the complex and develops shopping centers with Safeway and Vons as primary anchors, according to its website.

"We are in discussions for a lease, but have yet to fully execute it," said Carlos Illingworth, director of public affairs and government relations for Vons, in an email. 

Click here to read a 2010 profile of Diane's Hallmark in its final days by the La Cañada Sun, and stay tuned to Patch for any further developments about Massage Envy at 659 Foothill Blvd. 


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