Marketplace

“It’s going to be a surprise,” says Don Knight about the look and feel of his new restaurant, a steak house that will occupy part of the former Borders (the Maynard/Liberty corner). Another restaurant, the...

Roger Feeny says he’ll move his Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, currently underneath Seva (itself moving to Westgate), in December or January.The new space will be in the basement of the Fourth Ave. mini-mall that also houses...

General manager Andrew Heningburg says the name of BurgerFi, on the ground floor of University Towers, is short for “burgerfication of the nation.” You may have thought the nation burgerfied years ago–there was...

“Does anyone know a good upholsterer? Rendel’s isn’t answering their phone,” went a cry for help on A2B3, a widely read email group. Several other upholsterers were immediately suggested, but no one at...

A one-block stretch on the far west side of Ann Arbor boasts a Latino grocery, two restaurants serving inexpensive Mexican (Taco King, Chela’s), and a small cafe selling organic Salvadoran tamales and horchata lattes...

Two “social painting” businesses opened in the last year. But what’s social painting?The Paint Station and Paint and Pour produce events that fall about halfway between a class and a party. A group of people,...

Stores continue to open at Arbor Hills Crossing.V2V is the second Ann Arbor location of Tes Haas’s clothing and “lifestyle” store that originated at Kerrytown in the 1980s. Haas’s store was originally...

“We have a lot of denim-driven brands,” says Rich Bellas, manager of Van Boven Shoes. The tiny eighty-year-old campus store specializing in quality leather footwear changed hands over the summer. When did denim learn...

News from the department of What Were They Thinking?–Toppers Pizza closed. One look at the empty storefront that set up shop nine months ago next door to NYPD on William is all you need to figure that one out. NYPD, a...

Kate Ernsting spent seven years on a crusade she didn’t seek. In 2003, as an administrator at Tom Monaghan’s Ave Maria College (now Florida’s Ave Maria University), she was fired after cooperating with a U.S....

Pete Poulos is fine, says daughter-in-law Sharon Poulos, but he’s enjoying a well-deserved retirement after more than forty years of flipping burgers at Frank’s Restaurant. The diner is named for Pete’s...