The professionals who open the inaugural Shops+ location in Edmonds become its Founding Members — a permanent designation for the businesses that launch the first Shops+ community, with advantages tied specifically to joining before opening.
Founding Membership rewards the professionals who commit before the inaugural location opens. The advantages are about choice, preparation, visibility, and permanent recognition — not a discount.
Move through the selection process earlier and get earlier access to available Shops as the founding community forms.
Use the months before opening to prepare your profile, digital presence, booking path, and launch foundation.
Opportunities to be introduced through relevant Shops+ opening, directory, and community channels around launch.
Stay recognised as an original member of the inaugural Edmonds community even as Shops+ expands.
Founding Members get the standard Shops+ member experience, plus advantages tied specifically to joining the inaugural location before opening.
Earlier access to the Shop-selection process as spaces become available to reserve.
Structured help preparing your Shops+ profile, service information, booking path, local digital presence, and launch plan.
Opportunities to be introduced as part of the inaugural community through appropriate pre-opening and launch channels.
A permanent Founding Member designation connected to the first Shops+ location.
Early invitations to tour Shops+ when private tours begin.
Rates and financial terms aren’t published here — we go through them with you directly, and confirm them in writing, before you are asked to commit to anything.
Founding Membership is a runway: time to prepare how your business appears, communicates, and gets discovered before you serve your first client from your Shop.
Prepare a complete Shops+ profile with your services, specialties, brand information, contact details, and booking path.
Where appropriate, founding businesses are introduced through Shops+ opening and community content.
Founding Members may be included in relevant grand-opening and location-launch communications.
A structured checklist for the core digital information clients need to find, evaluate, and contact your business.
Joining the list is the first step, not a lease. Official Founding Member status begins only when you complete the final Shop reservation process — those details will be provided before anything is asked of you.
Tell us about your business, services, and initial Shop preferences. This is an interest registration, not a commitment.
We learn more about your space needs, timing, and what you want from a private Shop.
Get meaningful updates on construction, tours, Shop availability, and the founding process as decisions are made.
When private tours begin, founding prospects get an early opportunity to see the location and the Shop concepts.
If you decide to move forward, select from available Shops under the final reservation and selection process.
Begin profile setup, launch preparation, and Founding Member onboarding before opening day.
Prefer to understand the Shops first? See Shop options and layouts or how the general process works.
Future Shops+ locations may run their own opening programs, but the professionals who launch the first location hold the original Founding Member designation.
Founding Member recognition stays connected to your role in the first Shops+ community.
The designation is tied specifically to the inaugural Shops+ Edmonds opening.
Professionals who engage earlier move through tours, Shop selection, and launch preparation earlier as those stages open.
Joining tells us you’re interested in the inaugural Edmonds location. It does not reserve a Shop or create a lease commitment.
We’ll use your details to follow up about the Edmonds opening, tours, Shop availability, and the Founding Member program.
Nothing. It registers your interest in the inaugural Edmonds location so we can follow up about tours, Shop availability, and the founding process. It does not reserve a Shop, create a lease, or require a payment.
When you secure a Shop at the inaugural Edmonds location before it opens. The exact step that converts interest into Founding Member status will be confirmed before anything is asked of you.
Beauty, wellness, and related independent professionals who commit to a Shop at the first Shops+ location before the grand opening.
No. Shop selection happens later, under a reservation process that is still being finalised. Joining early affects when you get to choose, not what is held for you.
We don’t publish rates on this page. Pricing and any founding terms are walked through directly with you and confirmed in writing before you are asked to commit to anything.
Tours begin once construction is far enough along; founding prospects are invited first. Timeline detail lives on the Tour Priority page.
Selection opens as Shops become available to reserve. Founding List members are contacted before general availability.
Help preparing your Shops+ profile, service and category information, booking path, and a local digital-presence checklist, plus a structured pre-opening planning session. It is practical preparation and guidance, not a done-for-you marketing service, and it does not include managing your marketing.
We tell you directly and keep you on the list. Because no deposit or agreement is involved at the Founding List stage, a schedule change costs you nothing.
Yes. What you tell us now helps us match you to suitable Shops; nothing is fixed until you formally select one.
Leave the list at any time. There is no obligation and no cost.
Future locations may run their own opening programs, but Shops+ Founding Member refers specifically to the professionals who launch the inaugural Edmonds location.
Broader questions about Shops+ are answered on the main FAQ, and the building itself is covered on the Edmonds location page.
Join the Founding List, or compare the Shops first and come back when you know which one suits your services.