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Freeze!

CryoUSA is expected to open its location at Arboretum Village Nov. 19. The place offers cryotherapy, which is a hyper-cooling process that lowers a person’s skin temperature to below freezing for up to three minutes. It is a way to flush the system and quickly remove lactic acid from muscles. Cryotherapy most commonly is used by endurance athletes for recovery, but it also can be used for personal wellness.

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Dominant chicken

Pollo Tropical opened a restaurant on Upper Greenville recently. The Miami-based restaurant chain, known for it citrus-marinated, flame-grilled chicken and islandinspired sauces and sides, opened its first Texas store in Addison two years ago. The new store, just south of University at 4622 Greenville, is part of a larger Pollo Tropical expansion in the Dallas area. The company expects to add 12 more locations this fall.

Wrap it up

Unleavened Fresh Kitchen, a restaurant specializing in salads and wrap sandwiches, opened in the Lakewood Shopping Center. It is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. The Dagwood, a wrap with bacon, egg, potato, arugula and cheddar, costs $7.25. The lunch and dinner wraps include several vegetarian choices as well as meaty ones like the Havana, which comes filled with pulled pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and honey mustard for $10.25. Any wrap can be ordered as a salad instead, and any breakfast burrito can be ordered on potato hash instead of the wrap. There are also granola, oatmeal and açaí bowls starting around $5.

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty opened a new office in a renovated space in the Lakewood Towers on Gaston near Abrams. The real estate firm increased sales 300 percent in 2014 over the previous year and doubled its staff. The new office comprises 5,400 square feet, with two conference rooms and accommodations for 40 employees. At the helm is sales manager Craig Sessions who has 27 years in Dallas real estate. A media release from his office states: “The real estate market in Dallas is skyrocketing, with the average price for a home in Lakewood growing to $527,000. Exceptional homes, especially with views of White Rock Lake, sell for more than $1 million.”

Cause for celebration

It was 14 years ago when Elizabeth Mast launched Talulah Belle at 2011 Abrams Street in East Dallas. The girlie gift and clothing store was her passion project outside her fulltime finance job. Three years ago, when the space next door became available, she opened HESS, a home furnishing boutique. This year, she officially merged the two businesses to former Talulah & HESS, and will mark the occasion with a ribbon cutting and reception with the Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. The store will be decked out for the holidays and 10 percent of the night’s proceeds will go to The Be Project, a local nonprofit with a mission to fight bullying.

Pearly whites

Ellis Orthodontics, a locally owned practice, opened at 6333 E. Mockingbird in Mockingbird Commons in the suite above Boston Market.

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