Renee Hooker, owner of Main Street Salon in downtown Saranac Lake, will close the business after this Thursday. (Enterprise photo — Peter Crowley)

SARANAC LAKE — The last hairs will be cut Thursday at Main Street Salon before the space is transformed into a lounge for the expanding fitness center upstairs.

The downtown salon at 69 Main St. is closing, and its stylists are going to work for other local establishments.

Owner Renee Hooker has cut hair here for the last two decades, mostly as co-owner when it was called Salon Mirage Day Spa and Fitness Center. She and Alyssa Randig owned the four-story building back then, but in 2017 they sold it to Jeremiah St. Louis, who took over the fitness center as well. After a brief period when the salon was called Roots and was under different ownership, Hooker took it over again and renamed it Main Street Salon.

On Aug. 5, she’ll open up shop in the Saranac Village at Will Rogers retirement home. She’ll take over there for Donna Buckley, who ran that salon for almost 20 years and cut hair in this community for half a century. Hooker seemed excited about the transition Tuesday.

St. Louis is excited, too. He has big plans to expand his fitness center into the street-level storefront. He’s still working on the details and wants to hear more input from his gym’s members, but “Most likely it would be a post-workout and recovery lounge, with maybe some food items like a juice bar.”

It will also have an indoor golf simulator to help serious students of the game improve their technique. Made by Full Swing Golf, it’s the kind of high-end tool top pros might have in their homes. It’s not virtual reality or a video game for amateurs, St. Louis said. Although the simulator makes it as if golfers are playing on real PGA courses, they hit real balls with real clubs at a screen. The simulator uses infrared and overhead cameras to analyze their ball speed, trajectory and other data, and show how the ball landed on the course, putting one on par with the pros from right here in Saranac Lake.

“Yeah, I’m a golfer,” said St. Louis, who grew up in Onchiota and went to school in Saranac Lake and later Tupper Lake, where he graduated high school. “I pay for memberships. I have my own clubs, and I make it work.”

He expects to start renovations soon and hopes to open the storefront fitness lounge in mid October.