Adrian Curves Marks 10 Years; Moves To New Location

Adrian Daily Telegram:

Kathie Ward has always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

“I’ve always wanted to be someone who controls her own destiny,” she said. That, plus just an instinct for starting new businesses, is what led her to own Hattie’s Closet, a consignment shop in Adrian, in the mid-1980s, and to be part-owner of the Adecco employment service in Adrian and Hillsdale for 10 years.

But she was looking to do something different when she read a newspaper ad looking for a Curves franchisee in Hillsdale. It seemed like the perfect fit for someone who in college had thought about going into women’s fitness, and so in June 1999 she opened the facility.

That was followed in November by a franchise in Adrian and the next year by one (later two) in Jackson. She eventually sold the Hillsdale location and merged the two in Jackson.

Curves of Adrian recently celebrated a successful 10 years in operation and even more recently moved to a new location. Originally housed on Maumee Street and then on Toledo Street, the facility moved May 1 to 1416 S. Main St., Suite 210, next to Kmart.

Photo: Linda Campbell.

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