May 15, 2011 | Marketplace |
Undergraduates like to live in a cashless society, and when the new Subway opened at the corner of Washington and Division with a nonperforming credit card reader, a less-experienced franchise owner might have had a meltdown....
Read MoreMay 14, 2011 | Marketplace |
Founder Margaret Brusher remembers the Ann Arbor Antiques Market at its peak. “We had shows from April through November–that was the standard for decades–and we’d have 500 dealers, and attendance was...
Read MoreMay 11, 2011 | Marketplace |
Get Your Game On owner Alex Horvath liked his old space on Packard a few doors down from the Blue Front party store just fine, but he got tired of people walking in every day who’d never known they were there. “Four...
Read MoreMay 8, 2011 | Marketplace |
Motorcycles go faster than riding mowers, but mechanically they’re not that different. “Even the sizes are equivalent,” says Dan Weingartz. So when his family opened its fifth Weingartz outdoor power equipment...
Read MoreMay 2, 2011 | Marketplace |
On April 2nd, Sumi and Swaroop Bhojani had a festive, merry ribbon-cutting ceremony to launch their Hut-K Chaats, in the former Bombay Grocery (Bombay moved a few doors west last year). The brand-new restaurant was bursting with...
Read MoreApr 27, 2011 | Marketplace |
If youve been around long enough to fondly recall the old roadside BBQ stands of Mr. Rib on North Main and DeLongs on North Fifth Avenue, youll be glad to know that a new meats-the-thing joint has appeared to carry on in...
Read MoreApr 27, 2011 | Marketplace |
Macs Acadian Seafood Shack, the enormously popular Saline mainstay, is named for the homeland of Louisianas Cajuns in what are now the Maritime provinces of Canada. Its menu includes Cajun standards; the changing fresh catch...
Read MoreApr 24, 2011 | Marketplace |
If you thought the small Arbor Square Plaza at Carpenter and Ellsworth was a strange place for a sushi conveyor belt, you were in good company. Donghun Jang, who bought the modest Japanese restaurant Sushi Nara about six months...
Read MoreApr 21, 2011 | Marketplace |
You can still buy O’Leary paints in Ann Arbor, but you can’t buy it at O’Leary Paint any longer. The company closed its store on West Stadium on March 1. Now, if you want O’Leary paint, you’ll have...
Read MoreApr 20, 2011 | Marketplace |
Four storefronts on the prime-time block of Main between Liberty and Washington have announced major changes. Occasionally, the Michigan-themed shop on the corner of Liberty and Main that specialized in gift baskets, closed at...
Read MoreApr 19, 2011 | Marketplace |
Q. The new condo on the north side of Huron just west of Seventh is complete on the exterior and landscaped but does not appear to be occupied. Any idea why this is still vacant several years after construction?A. “The...
Read MoreApr 19, 2011 | Marketplace |
Mythlogic might seem like an unusual name for a computer store, but co-owner Josh Tacey says the proprietors are computer nerds and it comes with the territory: “We like mythological things.”Jeff Cline and Charlie...
Read MoreApr 17, 2011 | Marketplace |
Gallup Properties owns the wildly eccentric building on Stadium that housed Sze-Chuan West, and if you haven’t gotten a look at its cave-like interior, you may have missed your chance. Sze-Chuan West closed in February,...
Read MoreApr 15, 2011 | Marketplace |
Kriss Pullen is the matriarch of an arty family that has been running a fluid and funky retail business under one name or another in the old motorcycle garage behind the Fleetwood since 2007. First it was Geechi Bleu, owned by...
Read MoreApr 13, 2011 | Marketplace |
Blink, and you’ll miss it. Sniff, and you won’t. Satchel’s BBQ opened on Valentine’s Day on Washtenaw next to Whole Foods. It’s hidden behind Verizon Wireless, but “we’ve got a big...
Read MoreApr 6, 2011 | Marketplace |
My family has never been of one mind about bd’s Mongolian Grill. It always rated pretty highly with my two sons, who like many teens consider it a premier place to eat lots of food, particularly meat and fish, for a modest...
Read MoreApr 4, 2011 | Marketplace |
In early March the Arborland Borders was festooned with black, yellow, and red block print signage bearing more exclamation points than any reputable English teacher would allow: Nothing Held Back!! Everything on Sale!! The...
Read MoreApr 1, 2011 | Marketplace |
When Jolly’s restaurant owners were ready to sell their business after a brief go at serving sandwiches and salads at the Clocktower Commons, it was the right time for Judy Radant and her family to buy. Radant—a lifelong...
Read MoreApr 1, 2011 | Marketplace |
The Lighthouse Café, on the west end of Dexter’s Main Street, quietly closed its doors at the end of February. “We’re gonna go out like we usually do,” Sandi Varney said a few days before the closing....
Read MoreMar 24, 2011 | Marketplace |
“It was vacant, and they’d rather make money than not make money. I said, ‘I’m a student and I’d like to try this out,'” says twenty-year-old Samantha Elias, co-owner with her twin sister,...
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