Marketplace

Michelle Kulcsar moved the Dancer’s Boutique from the Lamp Post Plaza to Zeeb Road’s Scio Town Center in the space recently vacated by the Little Seedling. The Little Seedling moved into Boulevard Plaza on West...

In addition to the ten (!) new eating places around central campus, there’s an update on the clothing front: the Duerksens closed their All About Blue U-M indicia store on State Street. Their daughter Kate has opened...

Fourth Ave Birkenstock now sells clothing–organic, natural, breathable cotton shirts, skirts, dresses, and pants, largely focused on two brands: Maggie’s (based in Ypsi) and Earth Creations. “I like things with...

The Tinkerhesses aren’t the only shopkeepers to have discovered that everyone wears clothes. Last year, we noted Busy Hands, the Main St. knitting store, was devoting a significant amount of space to clothing, and it still...

From Briarwood to Main St. isn’t the usual trajectory for a gift shop. Nicki Wilson, an interior designer who worked as a lighting designer at Gross Electric for seventeen years, opened iT Boutique in the Von Maur wing of...

Asked if it isn’t a little unusual for a gas station to be selling expensive toys and used vacuums, Zeke Kaji, who owns the Marathon station at the “V” where Maple and W. Stadium come together, counters:...

Nick Stanko and Ian Forsyth, who opened Ann Arbor Running Company, look like runners. Strung together from bone and muscle, as if nature just forgot to add the fat, they both say they try to run about seventy miles a week....