SARATOGA SPRINGS — Arbor Spa at Brookmere Saratoga (formerly known as the Brookmere Hotel) officially opened on Wednesday, January 15. The spa’s treatments are “crafted with natural ingredients inspired by the region.” Bookings are available via www.hotelbrookmere.com.

Brookmere and its Regent Restaurant opened its doors last month at 500 Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs.

MALTA — A mixed-use development proposal that would create nearly 300 residential units is making its way through Malta’s town boards.

Located on a 127-acre parcel at 2354 Route 9, the project would include the demolition of two “unsightly” buildings on Route 9, as well as the creation of 2,800 feet of sidewalks which, along with the town’s existing sidewalk plans, would create a continuous pathway from the Dunning Street/Route 9 roundabout to the Round Lake Bypass. The new sidewalk would also connect to the Zim Smith Trail.

The development would include 40,000 square feet of commercial space on Route 9, as well as a collection of single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums, and multi-family buildings that would create a total of 293 residential units.

The Malta Town Board has met with the New York Development Group several times to workshop the group’s proposal.

“Overall, I’m not unhappy with it,” Town Supervisor Cynthia Young said of the proposal at a December 23 board meeting. “I think the community benefit is reasonable.”

Young said that Malta needs additional commercial development on Route 9 and wanted to make sure it gets built. She noted that a traffic study will need to be conducted as the proposal progresses. She also thanked the developer for agreeing to scale back the initial proposal from 350 units to 293.

Councilperson Al Ricci said he opposed the project, although the remaining council members seemed open to further discussion. Supervisor Young said the issue would be revisited at a future meeting.

BALLSTON SPA — In September, Stewart’s Shops announced that it had purchased the assets of the Jolley Associates convenience store chain, which included 45 stores located across Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire. At the time, deal terms were kept confidential. But a new report from the Albany Business Review reveals that the price tag of Jolley’s five New York-based stores was slightly more than $9.6 million.

The Jolley stores located in the Capital Region were sold to Stewart’s for the following prices:

$3,261,694 — 1412 State Route 9, Lake George

$2,926,804 — 474 Aviation Road, Queensbury

$1,933,062 — 2 Clifton Country Road, Clifton Park

$754,100 — 443 Route 3, Plattsburgh

$753,932 — 777 Upper Glen St., Queensbury

The Jolley shops will continue operating as Jolley stores in the short term, but they’ll eventually be rebranded as Stewart’s Shops over the next few years, Stewart’s Public Relations Manager Robin Cooper told Saratoga TODAY in September.

Included in the deal were Jolley’s sister companies S.B. Collins, a petroleum products company, and Clarence Brown, a heating fuel oil company. Both are based in St. Albans, Vermont.

MALTA — Unified Beerworks, a craft brewery based in Malta, will spread its brews throughout Upstate New York thanks to a new deal with DeCrescente Distributing Company (DDC). All DeCrescente customers in 11 Upstate counties can now order Unified’s flagship beer “All the Juicy Things,” with more varieties being made available in the coming months.

Unified Beerworks, which opened in October 2018, is owned and operated by husband-and-wife team Jeff Mannion and Erika Anderson.

“Jeff, Erika, and the team at Unified are extremely passionate about beer, and that passion has resulted in them creating some of the finest craft beer out there,” said DeCrescente Vice President Carmine DeCrescente III in a press release. “We have wanted to work with Unified for years, and now we are thrilled to offer our customers their delicious portfolio of beers.”

“Prior to selecting DDC to be our distribution partner, we were always restricted by our limited amount of time to sell and distribute our beer,” said Mannion. “Having a partner like DDC with significantly greater resources will enable us to get our beer into significantly more locations than we could have done on our own. It’s going to open up so many more places to be able to enjoy our beer, so we’re obviously thrilled about that.”

Unified Beerworks is located at 7 Stonebreak Road in Malta.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Klick Health, once called “the largest private health marketing company in the world” by the Yale School of Management, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Saratoga Springs-based Peregrine Market Access.

Peregrine, which bills itself as “a leading consulting, communications, and commercialization partner for the life sciences industry,” was included in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States in both 2021 and 2022.

“We are thrilled to welcome the entire Peregrine Market Access team to Klick. We commend John Guarino for founding and building such a well-respected and formidable presence in our industry,” said Klick Health Co-Founder and Chairman Leerom Segal in a statement. “Peregrine is a remarkable business with a sterling reputation and deep, trusted client relationships, making them the perfect accelerant to our growing market access business.”

“I’m thrilled to bring our teams together,” said John Guarino, founder and CEO of Peregrine. “Our values align incredibly well, and the opportunities from being one team are endless.”

 Established in 1997, Klick Health has offices in New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. It is part of the Klick Group of companies, which also includes Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, Klick Ventures, and Sensei Labs.

Peregrine Market Access is a veteran-owned small business founded by John Guarino in 2016. Guarino served as a US Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. The second brigade of that division, nicknamed the “Falcon brigade,” inspired the naming of Peregrine Market Access. The company has offices in Saratoga Springs and Los Angeles, California.