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Andrea Jones went from auto parts to all in on cakes. It started in 2016, when she was flying back...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace |
Andrea Jones went from auto parts to all in on cakes. It started in 2016, when she was flying back...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace, News |
Madras Masala was in its twentieth year as a full-service Indian restaurant with a popular lunch buffet. Vape City had shared its Maynard St. building for fewer than two years when both businesses went up in smoke the morning of...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2023 | Marketplace |
Verbena, the student-focused women’s clothing boutique at 309 S. State St. since 2014, is expected to close by the end of February. The store was a father-daughter partnership between longtime Ann Arbor businessman Bob Duerksen...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2023 | Marketplace |
On Ellsworth, the party store near University Townhouses has transitioned from liquor to ganja: After an extensive renovation, it’s now Dispo. Though nine other Michigan locations share the name, Dispo (short for “dispensary”)...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2023 | Marketplace |
It’s been fourteen years since Michigan voters approved medical marijuana and just three since they opened the door to recreational sales, but already the decades of prohibition are taking on a retrospective glow. Before bud...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2023 | Marketplace |
Mike Kelleher already had one heyday, as a captain on the Huron High School football team that made it to the state finals for the only time in school history back in 1997. A quarter-century later, he’s back for another. Heyday...
Read MoreFeb 15, 2023 | Marketplace |
South-side stalwart Mediterranean Market has been under new ownership since November, when longtime owners Feras and Nariman Al Shobaki sold the Middle Eastern grocery to Emad Alkhateeb and Mohammad Hassan, Alkhateeb tells the...
Read MoreFeb 15, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace |
An independent pizza and sub shop has replaced a recently closed Little Caesars in the Plymouth Road Mall. Fred Ansari opened La Piazza Pizza & Subs on January 9 with hot pepperoni slices at the ready, even as some kitchen...
Read MoreFeb 15, 2023 | Marketplace |
Floor & Decor, a fast-growing national floor-covering chain, opened its 178th warehouse store in December in Pittsfield Township. It’s next to the Cinemark movie theater, which sold off the 5.6-acre parcel last year....
Read MoreFeb 13, 2023 | Business, Marketplace |
A retired security aide at the Center For Forensic Psychiatry in York Township has opened African & Caribbean Food Market on Carpenter Rd. just north of Packard. Roromu Samu, a Nigerian who emigrated here in his late...
Read MoreFeb 8, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace |
A Mexican family restaurant opened in August on Carpenter near Packard, in a newly refurbished stand-alone building once home to a Pizza Hut. El Tapatio Taqueria y Restaurante has a full menu of lunch and dinner favorites for...
Read MoreJan 25, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace |
Everything’s on clearance and all sales are final at Bed Bath & Beyond, as the once-mighty home furnishings chain prepares to bow out of Arborland. The troubled retailer announced in August that it would be closing about 150...
Read MoreJan 25, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace |
Busy people in charge of feeding themselves, which is most of them, generally seek to maximize...
Read MoreJan 25, 2023 | Environment, Marketplace |
It all began with engineer Jim Summers, frustrated by his daily commute, figuring out how to...
Read MoreJan 25, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace |
Northern Chinese street food has hit N. Main St. in the form of the steamed, stuffed buns known as...
Read MoreJan 25, 2023 | Culture, Marketplace |
Ann Arbor is rich with artists and craftsmen but poor in places for them to sell their work. Now a...
Read MoreJan 25, 2023 | Community, Environment, Nonprofits, Real Estate |
CAN executive director Derrick Miller says their goal is for everyone in the area around Bryant...
Read MoreJan 24, 2023 | Dine, Marketplace |
Ann Arbor is serving up delightful culinary experiences this February. Whether you’re looking for a chef’s tasting, quick lunch, or takeout to enjoy Valentine’s Day at home, we have you covered. Below is a sampling of local...
Read MoreDec 23, 2022 | Business, Marketplace |
The Oct. 31 closure of Ulrich’s Bookstore ended an eighty-eight-year run as a campus-area...
Read MoreDec 23, 2022 | Dine, Marketplace |
Sometimes projects start to bear fruit even before completion. So it is with Ali Hijazi’s El...
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