A new barbershop lets children play video games during their visits; an old liquor store looks for new life; an aerial exercise gym is taking flight in Martinez; and a new orthodontics practice wants to set things straight, especially your teeth. Here’s a brief look at openings, closings and other changes in Augusta-area business:

Sharkey’s Cuts for Kids

CUTTING EDGE: A barbershop chain specializing in children’s hair is preparing to come to Columbia County.

Construction plans have been filed to remodel a storefront in the Merchants Village shopping center, 4115 Columbia Road in Martinez, into a Sharkey’s Cuts for Kids.

Sharkey’s locations offer haircuts for boys and girls up to age 14 in an environment featuring novelty barber chairs resembling flashy race cars, firetrucks or police cruisers. While getting trims, young customers can play video games on XBox Ones or Sony PlayStation 4s. A Tween Lounge geared toward girls offers make-up lessons and before-and-after photos.

Evans resident Jared Jennings incorporated Sharkey’s Cuts for Kids of Augusta LLC in July, according to state records.

Sharkey’s was founded in 2002 by a husband-and-wife team looking to create a fun place where on-the-go parents could take their children for haircuts.

More than 120 Sharkey’s locations operate in the U.S. and worldwide, including one in Israel. Currently the closest locations to Augusta are in Cumming and Marietta in Georgia, and Lexington and Greenville in South Carolina.

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Lion Package

SLEEPING LION: A former liquor store, whose presence rankled its neighbors before it closed, has been put up for sale in hopes of attracting better business and clientele.

The 2,160-square-foot building at 2102 Martin Luther King Blvd., at its intersection with Tenth Avenue, used to house Lion Package. About 1,500 square feet at the rear of the structure is built-out for retail use. The asking price is $159,900.

In 2017 a prospective business owner sought to reopen the liquor store under another name, Bush’s Package, but received pushback from surrounding residents who didn’t want the store to continue operating. The package store is just a block away from the Carrie J. Mays Community Center, and from three churches.

Aerial Artistry

POLISHING A GYM: A gym that offers aerial exercise classes is trying to get off the ground in Columbia County.

Aerial Artistry filed a request with the county to operate its gym at 472 Flowing Wells Road in Martinez on property with a split zoning designation. Part of the land is zoned light industrial, which typically would make it incompatible with the gym’s placement.

The gym provides “group classes offering options such as aerial yoga, aerial silks, aerial pole, ground yoga, lyra and various dance classes,” according to a report prepared by county planning staff regarding the request.

The Columbia County Board of Commissioners is expected to hear the gym’s request at its next scheduled meeting Jan. 3.

Rogers and Andrews Orthodontics

REASON TO SMILE: A local dentistry practice will hold the grand opening of its new Columbia County location Jan. 4.

Rogers and Andrews Orthodontics will be accepting new patients at its office at 785 Gateway Center Blvd. just north of Grovetown, and at its Augusta office at 3545 Wheeler Road, where the practice has operated since purchasing the property in 2009.

This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Now Opening: Fun kids' barbershop; liquor store for sale; aerial gym