Apr 22, 2013 | Marketplace |
A couple of stores have hopped over to Traver Village from Plymouth Road Mall. Both insist that the move has nothing to do with the Plymouth Mall Plaza now going up in the parking lot in front of the Way 1 Supermarket, although...
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Ann Arbor’s second Ulta–with “one-stop shopping for prestige, mass and salon products, and service”–opened February 15 (the first is at Cranbrook Village). An enthusiastic press release promised...
Read MoreApr 18, 2013 | Marketplace |
Is it a restaurant? A sports bar? Another franchise come to town and geared to go, precariously perched at Ann Arbor’s most cursed crossroads?My expectations for the new R.U.B. BBQ Pub at Packard and State were not high....
Read MoreApr 15, 2013 | Marketplace |
The new gift shop Catching Fireflies, across the street from Zingerman’s, takes the place of Emerald Dragonfly. Despite the similarly buggy names, the two stores are entirely unrelated, a fact that Catching Fireflies owner...
Read MoreApr 15, 2013 | Marketplace |
Lee Hanna’s Greenback Dollar, which opened on the corner of Liberty and Stadium in 2001, should be moved into its new home around the corner on Stadium, next to Dimo’s Deli and Donuts, by the end of March. Dollar...
Read MoreApr 14, 2013 | Marketplace |
Tom Root says Maker Works is run much like a health club–with laser cutters and metalworking mills replacing treadmills and weight benches.Across 14,000 square feet of shop space located near the Ann Arbor Airport, the...
Read MoreApr 11, 2013 | Marketplace |
Gro Blue, the hydroponic gardening store formerly on the fringe of downtown, has moved to the fringe of Ann Arbor, and the ownership has passed from Kriss Pullen-Gideons to her daughter Gigi Bennett.In February, Bennett, mother...
Read MoreApr 11, 2013 | Marketplace |
Famous Hamburgers closed in February. It opened in Plymouth Courtyard in 2009, a defiant slow food alternative to the Wendy’s at the other end of the parking lot (and had the bad luck to open at exactly the same time as...
Read MoreApr 9, 2013 | Marketplace |
Originally, artisans produced vellum by transforming calfskin, with careful and elaborate preparation, into an exquisite, durable parchment suitable for fine manuscripts and paintings. Vellum, the new restaurant on Main Street,...
Read MoreApr 1, 2013 | Marketplace |
Herb David is closing?” said former Ark manager David Siglin, stunned. “No, I didn’t know. My guitar is in there. I’ll have to go get it.”Actually, it turns out, he won’t. Even though Herb...
Read MoreApr 1, 2013 | Marketplace |
Bryant Stuckey closed Decadent Delight in January, but his decadent delights live on: he’s now making cakes and desserts full time for Sweetwaters Cafe. “He’s been with us for awhile,” says Lisa Bee, who...
Read MoreMar 27, 2013 | Marketplace |
“It costs $9,500 for the season, and all you have to do is go to the grocery store,” says Mark Hodesh. And get a food truck. Still, a patch of concrete behind Downtown Home & Garden is probably the cheapest way...
Read MoreMar 26, 2013 | Marketplace |
“I’ve just been out touching the cars,” explains Rob Tabet, sales manager of both the new Suburban Fiat dealership and the old Suburban Chrysler Jeep across the street. It’s a blustery February day, and...
Read MoreMar 26, 2013 | Marketplace |
Though banks come in all sizes, there’s a considerable distinction between the multinational heavy hitters and small community banks. The big names–Bank of America, Wells Fargo, WaMu–and nonbank financial...
Read MoreMar 24, 2013 | Marketplace |
Are Ann Arborites spending more time in bed (perhaps watching TV)? Van Winkle Mattress is opening a second store on Jackson Road. Owner Ken Fil says he’ll mainly use the “abandoned truck terminal” as a...
Read MoreMar 24, 2013 | Marketplace |
Clark Professional Pharmacy is moving into a bigger space, in Arlington Square at Washtenaw and Huron Parkway. It’s one of a handful of local pharmacies offering an alternative to the cookie-cutter products of the big...
Read MoreMar 22, 2013 | Marketplace |
You get the feeling that if Mike Tawil could sell mattresses out of the trunk of his car, he would. But mattresses don’t fit into car trunks, so he went looking for Ann Arbor’s cheapest space to rent, which he found...
Read MoreMar 20, 2013 | Marketplace |
The Wafel Shop opened on February 4, selling not only the cooked-to-order Belgian (here more specifically designated “Brussels”) waffle we’re all familiar with, but another kind called the “Liege”...
Read MoreMar 20, 2013 | Marketplace |
Toppers Pizza recently opened on William on what was already the most pizza-dense stretch of Ann Arbor. Within a one-block radius of William and Maynard are three pizza parlors, each with a unique claim to fame: NYPD (New York...
Read MoreMar 18, 2013 | Marketplace |
While fast-sprouting housing towers transform the downtown skyline, a pair of stylish new-model grocery-delis have emerged to serve cosmopolitan downtown residents. In contrast to the late White Market on William–a...
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