Sep 15, 2012 | Marketplace |
Mythlogic, builder of powerful custom computers, moved off Main Street over the summer, leaving three vacant storefronts in a row that it once shared with Edible Arrangements and Sheesh.The fire at Sheesh last year...
Read MoreSep 15, 2012 | Marketplace |
It wasn’t much of a surprise when White Market closed. The little grocery near the Diag had been on a monthly lease since Uptown Coney Island owner Gus Boutsikakis bought the building last summer. Dave Jones says his store...
Read MoreSep 12, 2012 | Marketplace |
I have long declared my love affair with tacos, proclaiming them, in an earlier review, the world’s ultimate fast food. Imagine my glee, then, at being asked to review Ann Arbor’s new taco places. Oh, the...
Read MoreSep 11, 2012 | Marketplace |
The Michigan football team plays its first home game on September 8, but the season will start a few days earlier for Rob TerBush and his staff at Holiday’s restaurant.”We start roasting meat on Wednesday, we start...
Read MoreSep 10, 2012 | Marketplace |
Thirty-some people gathered on August 2 outside of the new Big Lots, which replaced Borders in Waters Place, that strip mall of big-box stores that also houses Best Buy and Kohl’s. Compared to the thousands who streamed...
Read MoreSep 10, 2012 | Marketplace |
The KFC on West Stadium closed at the end of June. “For questions/concerns call 971-6130” said a sign liberally plastered on windows, doors, and the drive-through menu. That’s the phone number of the KFC...
Read MoreSep 7, 2012 | Marketplace |
During Art Fair, the newly expanded Blue Tractor shut the doors to its downstairs bar, all that was left of Cafe Habana’s original two-level location. Habana was just marking time there while its new berth was being...
Read MoreSep 7, 2012 | Marketplace |
The Arby’s on Washtenaw near Platt closed, too. It was most famous for its outsize cowboy hat, grandfathered in from a more libertarian era in signage, when the government didn’t get between a corporation and its...
Read MoreSep 5, 2012 | Marketplace |
As summer vacation wound down, organizations and companies all over town were collecting school supplies for needy kids.You couldn’t get through a checkout at OfficeMax without being asked if you wanted to donate. The...
Read MoreAug 30, 2012 | Marketplace |
To get into the Union Hall Kitchen, I go up the alley behind Downtown Home & Garden, rap on the door, and give the one-time-only secret password: “Phillis sent me.”Inside, humid air is filled with the ravishing...
Read MoreAug 28, 2012 | Marketplace |
If it’s an August day too hot for pie and if you’ve got a thing for frozen-confection flavors crazy as they come, head around the corner from Grand Traverse on Liberty to Iorio’s Gelateria on William. The...
Read MoreAug 27, 2012 | Marketplace |
Transition Rack, which specializes in triathlon bikes, moved around the corner to the former O’Hair Salon on Fourth Ave. and closer to Running Fit, a partner in the triathlon biz. The owner, twenty-six-year-old Will...
Read MoreAug 24, 2012 | Marketplace |
Mack Buick GMC is now LaFontaine Buick GMC. Former owner Mack Johnson says he had second thoughts soon after buying the former Jim Bradley dealership in 2010 and moving it to his nearby Saturn store: “I came to GM and...
Read MoreAug 24, 2012 | Marketplace |
On the two-wheeled automotive front, Current Motor Company, developer of an electric scooter that it says will go sixty-five mph and fifty miles on a charge, has outgrown its showroom-factory-headquarters in a big tin can of a...
Read MoreAug 22, 2012 | Marketplace |
John Roumanis and his new partner, son Peter Roumanis, have started work on their Main Street restaurant, which as of early July still didn’t have a name. Peter graduated from Cornell’s School of Hotel...
Read MoreAug 21, 2012 | Marketplace |
One column of the blond-wood dining room displays a photo triptych of a three-leaf, three-petal trillium moving from woodsy bud to lovely bloom. Other walls have landscape shots of flowering cherry orchards, baskets of the...
Read MoreAug 19, 2012 | Marketplace |
Q. What’s the story with the covered sign in the parking lot in front of the Quarter Bistro–last used, if memory serves, when the space was Rio Bravo? A. City code limits commercial signage to two times business...
Read MoreAug 19, 2012 | Marketplace |
Nina Juergens closed Acme Mercantile on June 30. Housed in one of W. Liberty’s classic brick storefronts, Acme carried a blend of practical items, steam punk, and eco-sustainable clothing. As someone said on Yelp in 2005,...
Read MoreAug 18, 2012 | Marketplace |
On opening day at Costco, Jim Dolgas from marketing was making his way down the long line of customers who had queued up to buy memberships. He and several assistants were handing out applications and clipboards and extolling...
Read MoreAug 17, 2012 | Marketplace |
“We have fifty to eighty Hibachi Grills,” says Selina Chen, of the recently opened mega-buffet on Washtenaw. Chen talks fast and isn’t concerned with details like whether the number is closer to fifty or...
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