Patrol Cam
Some local Kroger stores closed out the year with new additions beyond face masks and one-way...
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Marketplace
Seafood on Wheels
A New Orleans vacation was the inspiration for Juicy Oistre.Douglas Botsford and Sean Morin have...
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Winter Dining
With winter here and a ban on indoor dining still in effect at press time, a handful of intrepid...
Read MoreTurning the Faucet Back On
Only thirty-nine existing single-family homes in the Ann Arbor Public Schools district were entered into the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors’ Multiple Listing Service in December. By mid-January, just eight were still...
Read MoreSite Closures for Bob Evans and Subway
The Bob Evans restaurant at 3143 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. has closed, and signage has been removed. The location on Carpenter Rd. remains open. Also gone: the Subway in the Courtyard Shops. A sign refers customers to the store at...
Read MoreUrban Outfitters Moves to Briarwood
In November, Urban Outfitters quietly packed up its trendy clothes, books, and housewares and vacated the ground floor beneath the State Theater it had occupied since 1989. It reemerged as a holiday season pop-up at Briarwood...
Read MoreSprucing Up Wendy’s on Plymouth Rd.
The Wendy’s in the parking lot of the Courtyard Shops closed in the summer of 2019, and residents have wondered what might go into the space ever since. Recently, a maintenance crew removed the last Wendy’s signs and...
Read MorePointless Brewery & Theatre Closes
Pointless Brewery & Theatre on Packard closed in September. Its website said it did not make financial sense to renew its lease. Improvisation classes and workshops continue online. It is also accepting donations.
Read MoreChuck E. Cheese’s Closes
Chuck E. Cheese’s, the pizza and games parlor that hosted birthday parties for generations of youngsters and their patient parents, closed all its approximately 600 locations early in the pandemic. In June, its parent...
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Ferne Boutique Joins Fourth Ave.’s Fashion District
As she turned thirty, Northville native Laura Horwath was frustrated when she shopped for...
Read MoreBohmey Beauty Opens
Bohmey Beauty, selling nontoxic and “ethically-made” hair, skin, makeup and home items, has opened on the second floor of the Kerrytown Shops. It is the second location for owner Angeline Pratt, whose first shop is...
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Coffee Rebound
The coffee chain, then called Beaner’s, launched with a single store on Grand River Avenue...
Read MoreAroma Arrives
Krishna Nakka and Kiran Rampa first met as undergraduates in India studying computer science then went their separate ways, winding up in places like Singapore, Sydney, Silicon Valley, and New York City.When Nakka met his wife,...
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Shrinking Briarwood
A coveted “anchor” tenant when the mall opened in 1973, the 185,000-square-foot...
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Ginger Deli Is Back
For more than two years, Ginger Deli’s canopied patio at Liberty and Division has stood...
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Hot Home Market
Though Matt Dejanovich didn’t sell a single home between March 23 and May 6, the Real Estate...
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Triple Spun
The pandemic sent Spun owners Pete and Carol Sickman-Garner into overdrive. Early on, they shifted...
Read MoreCharting the Sales Recovery
November put an exclamation mark on the recovery in real estate listings. During the coronavirus lockdown last spring, the number of people putting single-family homes on the market in the Ann Arbor School District fell 57...
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Random Games
He should know. Steer not only spends his days and nights playing games, he and Garry Donner...
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