HOLLY HILL — A longtime Ormond Seashore health middle not too long ago closed its doorways, however proprietor Tasso Kiriakes is not planning on retiring any time quickly.
Kiriakes plans to reopen Bodez By Tasso & Co. on Jan. 3 at a brand new, smaller facility in Holly Hill specializing in what he did when he started his profession as a private health coach 45 years in the past. He and his six-person employees will specialise in custom-made one-on-one health and wellness coaching. Bodez is pronounced “our bodies.”
“From a enterprise standpoint, I noticed 92% of our income was coming from our one-on-one coaching packages, however 77% of our bills have been coming from the remainder of our enterprise,” stated Kiriakes of his determination to shut his 11,600-square-foot Bodez Health Heart at 1140 W. Granada Blvd. in Ormond Seashore.
Kiriakes bought the constructing in November to a Port Orange entrepreneur who plans to open a restaurant known as Granada Household Restaurant & Bakery.
Throughout the state-mandated shutdown of health facilities all through Florida throughout the early months of the pandemic in 2020, Kiriakes stated his one-on-one coaching packages, have been allowed to proceed as a result of they offered an “important” service. Consequently, that facet of his enterprise grew by 40% that 12 months, he stated.
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The 2,500-square-foot area that may turn into the brand new house of Bodez By Tasso & Co. is at The Market enterprise complicated at 101 2nd St. in Holly Hill.
The historic coquina constructing, which has a park-like courtyard within the center, is on the nook of 2nd Road and Riverside Drive, throughout the road from the twin-tower Marina Grande apartment complicated and Riverside Park.
Kiriakes’ new landlord is his nephew Jon Xynidis, who purchased The Market complicated from the Metropolis of Holly Hill in 2017.
Kiriakes bought into the health middle enterprise in 1977 when he teamed up with Xynidis’ father, the late Steve Xynidis, to open a racketball membership known as Omega 40 in Ormond Seashore. Steve Xynidis, who died in 2011, was Kiriakes’ older brother.
Kiriakes began Bodez Health Heart in 1986 when he determined to turn into a full-time health coach. He opened his middle at The Trails South Forty procuring middle on West Granada Boulevard, simply west of Clyde Morris Boulevard, in 1995.
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‘A premier health coach’
Bodez Health Heart in 2019 was honored as that 12 months’s winner of the CMS Worldwide Membership of the Yr Award. The middle was the primary in the US to obtain the award which fits to the highest facility out of the greater than 600 in 63 international locations that supply CMS health programs.
Kiriakes celebrated receiving the award by internet hosting a charity fund-raising occasion that raised greater than $4,400 in donations for Meals Brings Hope, a nonprofit that works to eradicate starvation and homelessness for college students at Volusia and Flagler counties public faculties.
Over time, Bodez Health’s shoppers have included NASCAR drivers, together with Invoice and Chase Elliott, in addition to Olympic, highschool, faculty {and professional} athletes.
Kiriakes stated his core clientele are individuals over age 50 who need to turn into more healthy and extra bodily match “and reverse persistent illness.”
Holly Hill Metropolis Commissioner John Penny educated commonly at Bodez Health Heart up till the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020. He stated he intends to enroll as soon as once more as a consumer when Kiriakes opens his new facility at The Market.
“Tasso’s facility is first-class. I’ve personally witnessed aged shoppers who might barely stroll get a brand new pep of their step after coaching with him,” stated Penny. “Tasso is a premier health coach.”
Kiriakes has posted a number of movies on his Fb web page to maintain present and former shoppers up to date on his plans. “The brand new Bodez is returning to what our roots have been: one-on-one packages,” he stated in a video he posted on Nov. 28, the place he additionally introduced the sale of his Ormond Seashore constructing.
The brand new facility in Holly Hill will embrace a exercise/strength-training room the place private trainers shall be “stomach to stomach and nostril to nostril” with shoppers, a cardiovascular coaching room that may embrace a brand new program known as Bodez By Biomovement, and a “WE (Wellness & Power) Heart” that shall be devoted to “rest, restoration and rejuvenation,” stated Kiriakes.
Kevin Fall, financial growth and neighborhood redevelopment space director for the Metropolis of Holly Hill, stated Bodez By Tasso & Co. is the most recent addition to a rising variety of companies associated to bodily health and wellness actions.
“It appears with the rising success of Pictona (the brand new pickleball complicated at 1060 Ridgewood Ave.), the town has not too long ago seen a newfound curiosity in sports-related companies trying to find in Holly Hill, from gyms to athletic coaching facilities to kayak/paddleboard companies,” stated Fall.
“This elevated curiosity from the sporting/recreation market might result in the event of a ‘well being and health’ area of interest for the town as a complete,” he stated.
Bodez’ new location is nearer to proprietor’s house
Kiriakes stated an added bonus of transferring his Bodez health middle is that his soon-to-be new facility is just some blocks away from his house, which can also be in Holly Hill.
A base one-on-one coaching membership to Bodez By Tasso & Co. is $189 a month. For extra data, go to bodezfitness.com.
New restaurant coming to Ormond
The standalone constructing at 1140 W. Granada Blvd. was bought for $1.4 million in November to Port Orange businessman Talaat “Tally” El Bayomy who plans to open a restaurant known as the Granada Household Restaurant & Bakery, stated Kiriakes.
El Bayomy stated he hopes to open his new eatery by the top of March. The restaurant will provide “conventional American diner meals” and shall be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
El Bayomy owns three different eating places: the New Silver Spring Diner in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Hagerstown Household Diner in Hagerstown, Maryland, and the Martinsburg Household Diner in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
“Right here I will add a bakery that may provide desserts, bread, croissants and English muffins, all do-it-yourself,” he stated.
Entrees will embrace hen and beef pot pies, beef stroganoff and beef stew. “We’re additionally going to supply breakfast all day, eggs, waffles, pancakes, in addition to each day specials and soups. All the pieces do-it-yourself,” he stated.
Menu costs will doubtless vary from $7 to $12 for breakfast, $9 to $12 for lunch and $10 to $15 for dinner, he stated.
El Bayomy stated he anticipates using 30 to 40 individuals. He stated he moved to the Daytona Seashore space from Pennsylvania when considered one of his sons started attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical College. That son has graduated and now works as a flight teacher in Pennsylvania, however he has one other son who’s presently a third-year pupil at ERAU.
“I stored on the lookout for a superb location to open a restaurant right here,” he stated. “I believe it (the constructing at 1140 W. Granada Blvd.) is an effective location in a superb neighborhood. Plus, the place is large. It should most likely seat a minimum of 180, relying on what the town decides to permit.”
El Bayomy stated he hopes to get approval from the Metropolis of Ormond Seashore to start renovating the constructing for his restaurant by the top of January.
“I look ahead to the Granada Household Diner & Bakery being open by our buddy Tally,” stated Kiriakes in a Dec. 20 video on his Fb web page.