Sante Medical Massage says relocating to new Goei Center in Grand Rapids helped to boost business

Deborah Johnson Wood

Medical massage therapist Linda Taylor has had little time to relax since September. That's when she moved her business into the Goei Center on Grand Rapids' West Side where it's been growing steadily ever since.

Taylor owns Santé Medical Massage, 818 Butterworth SW. She says the new environment and unique networking opportunity has helped her land new clients, launch a new marketing package and lease an extra treatment room to another massage therapist.

Bing Goei, owner of Eastern Floral, renovated a former furniture factory into Eastern Floral's headquarters, an 8,000-square-foot events center and the 7,000-square-foot Goei Center for small businesses.

The Goei Center provides private spaces for each business and a central shared space where the business owners can interact and help each other develop their businesses.

"We had a bridal show at the events center and RSVP Events (another business in The Goei Center) asked me if I could create something for the event," Taylor says. "I created a brochure advertising wedding massages for brides, grooms, their parents or others in their wedding. None of this would have happened without having the interaction with RSVP."

Taylor says medical massage therapy helps relieve stress, can prevent and rehabilitate injuries and decreases pain while increasing range of motion. That's why she named the business Santé, which is French for "help."

"One thing unique to medical massage therapy is that we do joint physics, which stretches the ligament to relieve joint pain," she says. "If we do it the way we're trained, the body initiates its own healing."

Taylor is also trained in natural nutrition and says she uses the massage time to talk to clients about proper hydration and ways to avoid putting unwanted chemicals in or on their bodies.

Massage therapist Adele Noel leases one of Taylor's treatment rooms. Taylor hopes to lease the space to other similar businesses, as well.

Source: Linda Taylor, Santé Medical Massage

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Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at [email protected]. Development News tips can be sent to [email protected].