Jan McCormick is closing the Pear Tree, her gift boutique in Dixboro. Eight years ago, she and her husband bought a horse farm in the northwest Lower Peninsula. Now that their last child is in college and the four-year lease up, she says, “There’s nothing keeping us in the area. We’re just waiting for our house to sell.”
She says she might open a store up north some day, now that she knows how to do it. “It’s a bummer, because business here has never been better.”
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Menna’s Joint on William has been extinguished, after two years of selling fat, grilled wraps it called “dubs.” Colliers’ Jim Chaconas says the property is back on the market. “Ann Arbor is kind of funny,” he says. “East Lansing Menna’s is the most popular thing on campus. My daughter at Western in Kalamazoo eats at Menna’s all the time. But in Ann Arbor, it just doesn’t click, doesn’t go. Ann Arbor is more into, I guess you’d say, fresh food. But it won’t take long [to replace it]. I’ve three or four people interested in the space.”
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