Apr 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,...
Read MoreMar 20, 2011 | Marketplace |
When the Washtenaw Mini Mart at Arborland closed last year, Jeff Lenard of the National Association of Convenience Stores explained why more gasoline stations are closing than opening (Marketplace Changes, March 2010). In short,...
Read MoreMar 18, 2011 | Marketplace |
Generally, I’m not fond of buffets. Food loses its freshness, and the choices are the kitchen’s rather than my own. But judging by the crowd at Temptations’ lunch buffet, mine is a minority opinion. Indians,...
Read MoreMar 16, 2011 | Marketplace |
Brian Bondy bought Huron Scuba from Dave and Rachael Kaspar last July first. The first week of August, the United States government essentially told him, Not so fast, mister.Bondy and his wife, Marketa, discovered scuba diving...
Read MoreMar 12, 2011 | Marketplace |
You don’t go to Tractor Supply Co. to buy a tractor any more than you go to Home Depot to buy a home. That’s kind of a “duh” in the rural communities in forty-four states where the company’s 940...
Read MoreMar 11, 2011 | Marketplace |
What are you writing about next?Brunch.Oooo, I love going out to brunch!What restaurants do you go to most?Hmmm, lemme think a minute … I guess actually I haven’t gone in a while. Um, we used to go to …After...
Read MoreMar 4, 2011 | Marketplace |
Three siblings and their spouses, Peter and Laurie Toarmina along with two of Peter’s sisters and their husbands—Mary and Len Sheko and Rosemarie and Ron Tolson—are excited to finally open the doors of their two...
Read MoreMar 3, 2011 | Marketplace |
Three guys own the local Five Guys, but “I’m the hands-on guy,” Mike Abrams says. Abrams, Brian Adelman, and David Pittaway opened Five Guys Burgers and Fries in the former Shaman Drum bookstore on State Street...
Read MoreMar 3, 2011 | Marketplace |
The Lighthouse Café, on the west of 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 2, 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 MoreFeb 26, 2011 | Marketplace |
Lovers of Slurpees have options available at the new 7-Eleven on South State: they can slurp out, or they can slurp in. That’s because unlike most 7-Elevens, which are single story and sell everything to go, this one is...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2011 | Event Reviews, Marketplace |
Running a restaurant is hard work. The product is perishable, the work force often uneven, the customers unpredictable. The owners can only hope that their chosen concept, menu, and decor fit the public’s current mood and...
Read MoreFeb 18, 2011 | Marketplace |
Just before Christmas, Fox Tent and Awning, a family business that opened in 1920 and spanned three generations, locked their doors, folded their tents (and awnings), and silently slipped away. “We retired,” Becky...
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