KINGMAN – Its owners plan to move the Slightly High Maintenance beauty salon to downtown Kingman from its longtime business plaza location near Starbucks on Stockton Hill Road. Kevin and Stephanie Wilkerson are working to move the enterprise to a parcel they own at 135 Oak Street, one block east of the main baseball field at Lee Williams High School.
“What we’re proposing to do is to take an already successful business that’s been operating for 14 years and just move it down here,” Kevin Wilkerson said during the Jan. 12 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. “We purchased the property a couple of years ago and it’s always been our dream to have her business in an historic place downtown.” Commissioners asked questions about traffic impacts, but were assured that the five employees working at the salon don’t attract the type of customer volume that would pose problems for what is mostly a residential neighborhood.
Wilkerson said the salon would be relocated into two buildings on the property that will be remodeled and provided a face lift. He noted he has successfully rehabilitated other properties as well.
“This one would be the nicest work that we’ve ever done because this one we actually own,” Wilkerson said. “We have a very large dollar figure that we’re going to be putting into it to make it very nice.”
The commission expressed support for the project and voted to recommend approval of required zoning and general plan amendment changes. The City Council is expected to consider the matter next month, possibly during its Feb. 2 meeting.
Wilkerson said the goal is to have the salon open for business on Oak Street by September, if not sooner.
Dave Hawkins
