Marketplace

Adrian and Lori Iraola let go of their second Chela’s at Stone Plaza (Stone School and Ellsworth) last December: “We wanted to focus on this place,” says Adrian from his original location at Maple and Liberty,...

There’s a lot under construction at Briarwood. In early July, marketing director Denise Murray gave a rundown over the phone: “Of course the big news is the new restaurants going in, Bravo and P.F. Chang.” The...

“We’re more about getting our sandwiches to more people than introducing more sandwiches to our menu,” says Mike Wagner, manager of Jersey Mike’s sub shop in Westgate. In other words, the menu...

Nicola Rooney wasn’t happy last February when Publishers Weekly reported she was looking to sell her bookstore. She had been trying to sell Nicola’s Books quietly and hadn’t yet told her employees. But...

These aren’t your grandma’s clothes. Unless your grandma is an aging hippie, in which case tell her to get down to Mix before all the other aging hippies beat her to it. “Aging hippie” is the proud...

Teresa Chajec is closing her Polish deli, Copernicus, at the end of July. She has already moved back to Poland to be with her aging mother, and at press time was back in Ann Arbor to close out the store. “My mother needs...

Millennial-generation readers will recall the old house at the corner of W. Liberty and First as the backdrop for a fiery car crash in the 2009 movie Youth in Revolt. To many baby boomers, however, it remains best known as...

“I love working holidays!” says Nikki Leibold, who says that you’d better when you’re in the hospitality business, because you end up working a lot of them. She’s the manager of the new Mezzevino,...