Jul 19, 2015 | Marketplace |
One will soon be condos, one turned into donuts, one is slated for demolition to make room for an auto parts store, one became more space for a convenience store, and one just sits closed and moldering. Like other car-culture...
Read MoreJul 18, 2015 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Blank Slate Creamery marks its first anniversary in early July with reasons to celebrate–like frequent lines out the door for little scoops of its distinctive deep-freeze creations. Could this spell the end of turnover at...
Read MoreJul 17, 2015 | Marketplace |
Hammers pounded, brooms swayed, and feather dusters swished as the people at Ann Arbor Cabinet & Counter put the finishing touches on their new showroom in Lamp Post Plaza in May.”We moved here from Carpenter Rd.,...
Read MoreJul 15, 2015 | Marketplace |
Since the shopping center at S. Main and Ann Arbor-Saline opened, feline and canine members of local families have received care from four different vet practices occupying the same storefront–a sole practitioner, a...
Read MoreJul 14, 2015 | Marketplace |
Rubina Sadiq and her family worked frantically to open her new bakery, Cakes by Rubina, on schedule at the end of May. “We could hardly sleep,” says Sadiq. Fortunately, she’s had experience working while...
Read MoreJul 13, 2015 | Marketplace |
A revitalized local chapter of the National Organization for Women wants the People’s Food Co-op to boycott Eden Foods. They’re angry at the Clinton company’s lawsuit challenging a provision of the Affordable...
Read MoreJul 10, 2015 | Marketplace |
At Marketplace Changes, it’s been a truism that once a restaurant takes over an Ann Arbor location, it will never be retail again. Restaurants cost so much to build, our theory goes, and make so much more money per square...
Read MoreJul 8, 2015 | Marketplace |
In early June, Hiller’s Market in Arborland had a ghostly look. Only a few canned goods stood on once-packed shelves, empty coolers gaped, and signs at the checkout lanes cautioned, “We no longer accept...
Read MoreJul 7, 2015 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
My husband retired this spring, and after throwing a party for 150 colleagues, friends, and relatives, we’re planning to go to Morocco this fall. He went to Morocco once, more than thirty years ago, after a month of...
Read MoreJul 5, 2015 | Marketplace |
Fifteen years ago, with Stacey Marsh about to deliver their first daughter, her husband Mike rushed to her hospital bedside, his clothes covered in flour.The birth of their daughter coincided with the opening of their bakery in...
Read MoreJul 4, 2015 | Community, Marketplace |
Last month’s Fake Ad asked readers to tell politicians to stop telemarketers’ tactics. Of course, being a Fake Ad, it asked people to accomplish that by calling an expensive pay-per-call phone number. Carol Mousigian...
Read MoreJun 29, 2015 | Featured, Marketplace |
When I called Shinola in Detroit in April asking when its Ann Arbor store would open, the person who answered the phone said May then brightly added, “It will be on Main St., right across from Starbucks.” And that...
Read MoreJun 25, 2015 | Marketplace |
From his posts on Twitter to his khaki pants, head football coach Jim Harbaugh has been embraced by the U-M and the community. And it’s a good bet that some local dads will be getting his tie on Father’s Day.At the...
Read MoreJun 23, 2015 | Marketplace |
What’s it like to own a strip mall? For one thing, you don’t call it a strip mall. “I prefer to call it a retail center. It sounds less transient,” says Deb Pearson, the petite, dark-haired marketing...
Read MoreJun 21, 2015 | Marketplace |
“You can’t beat a beer, a sunny day, and good company!” Nash Pater grins as he stands on a patio overlooking the greens at Reddeman Farms Golf & Banquets on a recent weekday afternoon. Pater–vice...
Read MoreJun 20, 2015 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Robin Hills Farm of Chelsea may be coming late to Southeast Michigan’s crowded market for community-supported agriculture (CSA) crop shares, but it’s arriving with a few interesting twists. Vegetable manager Mitzi...
Read MoreJun 18, 2015 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Hard to believe Wolverine State Brewing Co. has been hidden away in the parking lot behind Big George’s for nearly a decade. It has not only survived but thrived as an ultimate townie watering hole, in recent years adding...
Read MoreJun 14, 2015 | Marketplace |
Jeanne Loveland closed Cafe Marie just after Mother’s Day. The gracious letter to customers she sent out earlier in the month urged: “Please continue to seek out small, independent businesses, not only when...
Read MoreJun 10, 2015 | Marketplace |
From the road, at the crux of Ann Arbor-Saline and Main, all the orange bicycles and prominent corner marquee of the new Orange Theory Fitness obscures the fact that Underground Printing is still there, just smaller. Rishi...
Read MoreJun 10, 2015 | Marketplace |
“When is Menards going to open?” asks a reader. “No word. Thank you,” emails “Ray” from the company in response to our email inquiry.The Wisconsin-based chain has been distributing ad fliers...
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