Rocket Fizz Comes to Main St.
With WSG gone from Main St., an even more colorful tenant has taken its spot. In August, Tom and...
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Marketplace
Bookbound Is Now Booksweet
In the Courtyard Shops, another business exchange has taken place: Shaun Manning and Truly Render...
Read MoreLan City Noodles
Lan City Noodles, the Washtenaw Ave. spot in Ypsilanti known for hand-made noodles and other dishes from Lanzhou, China, has opened a second location on South University. The restaurant has taken over the University Towers spot...
Read MoreMacy’s Backstage
Shoppers at Briarwood this summer may have noticed that Macy’s second floor was under construction, and wondered what was transpiring.That floor has now been transformed into a Macy’s Backstage outlet, selling...
Read MoreHalloween City
Vacant stores weigh on malls a little less heavily this time of year: Halloween City is back at Arborland through October, in the former Arhaus location. As in past years, it is selling costumes, decorations, accessories, and...
Read MoreAbercrombie & Fitch, Kasoa African Market
A generation or so ago, Abercrombie & Fitch ranked as one of the coolest places for teens and twenty-somethings to shop. Founded in Manhattan in 1892, it was originally an elite seller of sporting goods and apparel, whose...
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My Neighborhood: Mitchell
In 1965, when Toronto-born Esther Rubin and her husband moved into Colonial Square, a cooperative...
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My Neighborhood: Thurston
Robert Glassman remembers the year he met Jennie Lieberman: it was 2003, and soon they were...
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My Neighborhood: Dicken
Vernon Downs, the 411-home subdivision on the city’s far west side south of Stadium and...
Read MoreSingle-family, Condo Sales Increase
There are 298 homes on this month’s map, up from 228 in July 2020. That’s partly because we’re casting a wider net this year: in January, we started going back to capture property transfers that missed the...
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Eight Days on the Market
Realtors reported selling 1,349 single-family homes in the Ann Arbor School District between June...
Read MoreSurviving the Pandemic
The pandemic was tough for Ann Arbor restaurants. Favorite names such as Logan and Mikette disappeared; others, like Gratzi and Carson’s, went on hiatus. The Espresso Royale Coffee chain shut down. Yet most places wove...
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The Headlong Growth of LynxDx
Biotech startup LynxDx moved into its new lab in February 2020 with just four employees: CEO...
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Going Cashless
“We don’t have money here,” an employee at PNC Bank’s downtown branch...
Read MoreIorio’s Joins the Original Cottage Inn
A decade ago, siblings Nick and Mary Lemmer opened Iorio Gelato on E. William, selling the gelato the brother and sister began peddling from push carts in Lansing in 2004. But with their Maynard House lease up for renewal this...
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Social Butterfly
We received 191 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for Social Butterfly on page 27 of the...
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Finding a Farmers’ Market
The farmers’ market season is in full swing. From Dexter’s modern sheds to a long...
Read MoreUnderground Sounds Makes Another Move
Last fall, Underground Sounds left its longtime location on Liberty and moved into the former Peaceable Kingdom store on Main. In July, it headed east again to Washington, taking a spot next to Amadeus that had been a tap room...
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Stray Hen Arrives
The Stray Hen, at the corner of Division and Washington, opened the day before Art Fair. By the...
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