Marketplace

Abraham Hejazi, who is closing his women’s clothing store Allure on the Michigan Theater block of Liberty, isn’t the first shop owner to cite the area’s diminishing foot traffic as the reason. But he has a...

Yamato, the serene little Japanese restaurant at the back of Kerrytown’s pretty courtyard, will be closing at the end of March, and owner Kazuko Ishizuka will be retiring.Her husband, Norihiro Ishizuka, is not ready to...

Walk into the Zamaan Cafe off Plymouth Road, and the upholstered surfaces and Lebanese decor items immediately signal that this is something more than an anonymous fast food joint, genus Middle Eastern. Evocative sepia photos of...

Sava’s uncle takes an east-side spot.Local restaurateur Demos Panos put his Smokehouse Blues Bar and Grill on Washtenaw up for sale last year so he could concentrate on his other businesses. That paved the way for his...

Apparently the market is still not saturated when it comes to coffee. If there were a parlor game called “You Know You’re in Ann Arbor When …,” you could now finish the sentence: “… the coffee...

Arriving as an exchange student in the Caribbean many Augusts ago, I dropped pounds as fast as ice cream melts. The sparkling sea and flowers couldn’t have been more appealing, but a whiny letter home complained:...

With his clear blue eyes and air of surprised delight, Steve Sarns, VP of sales and marketing for NuStep, is a highly successful salesman, a very persuasive speaker, and an apostle of wellness.”In ten years, we want to be...

Watching a driver wrangling a newspaper on a morning commute makes it clear that reading and operating a vehicle are a lousy combination, but Ann Arbor’s first scooter store and its sister business, the area’s first...

To all the angry birders who responded to last month’s fake ad–and by that we are not referring to the bleary-eyed gamers who fall asleep launching cartoon birds on their phones–we would like to say: relax. The...