When Katie Dersnah Mitchell moved to Saline from Ann Arbor, she was looking to settle down with her soon-to-be-husband and start a family. Three decades and three children later, she’s done that and more, supporting hundreds of teens each year working at the Saline District Library.
“I did not imagine when we moved here that we would end up being farmers,” says Sarah Schloss, matriarch of the Schloss family. But life is full of surprises. Not only does she now co-own Nkids Farm, she’s also the cofounder of Washtenaw Meats, a company that partners with small southeast Michigan livestock farms and USDA-certified butchers to make meat processing and distribution more efficient and accessible.
In September of 2025, Michelle Balhorn read on Facebook that Sandra VanBurkleo was closing up shop at Artisan Knitworks and that all yarn and fabrics were 30 percent off. As a lover of knitting and crocheting, Michelle immediately ran down to the store with her ten-year-old son and started piling yarn into her arms. Seeing his mother with her arms full, her son said, “Stop buying the yarn, and just ask if you can buy the store.”
Livingston’s own blueprint, from blast to boom, a row house with no row, and Dig These Digs.
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Reinhart Realtor Scott Dawson says that besides ties to the university or family, what draws retirees to the city is the same as what attracts families and working people.
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Farmhouse glow-up, designed to be seen, and small houses with a big price difference.
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Located just southwest of Packard and Platt, this neighborhood now has a mix of housing types and sizes, as well as varying yards and various dogs and a whole lot of trees (we’ve even got a magical little forest on our west side).
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When Stephanie Clark and Hans Fruechtenicht had their first child, Claire, they knew they wanted to move back home to Michigan. (The two had been living in Columbus, Ohio while Stephanie completed her residency.) In 2013, they both landed jobs with the U-M—he as a philanthropy researcher, she as a physician—and made the move to Ann Arbor’s Dicken neighborhood. The west-side wooded enclave stood out as a place where they could affordably raise their young family.
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Right on the Old West Side, beside Argus Farm Stop, stands a century-old industrial-style building overlooking the train tracks. Once a manufacturing facility, it was given a new life when it was converted into residential lofts in 2005. Its brick facade stands in quiet contrast to the colorful historic homes with porches, peaked roofs, and tree-lined yards that surround it. There was something about that unlikely pairing that felt oddly familiar.
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If someone tells you an island exists in Ann Arbor, you’d do well to believe them. This island sits boldly between rushing Carpenter to the west and trickling Golfside to the east, roaring Washtenaw Ave. to the north, and thrumming Packard to the south. The beating heart of this island is Carpenter Elementary, and what better heart might any island ask for than a place of discovery and learning, friendship, and a grand grassy space for play.
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High-rises and luxury student apartments are transforming Ann Arbor’s skyline, and the streets and neighborhoods below.
Read MoreBathrooms, gardens, a tri-level deck, and unfinished projects.
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There were at least two reasons why U-M’s $60 million deal to buy Concordia University’s Geddes Rd. campus rankled city hall.
Read MoreOne house is a ten; another was owned for a century; and a third is ready for anything.
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Sarah Russman’s daughter will leave their home in Ann Arbor this fall to embark on her freshman year of college and the new experience of shared living in a dorm room. Meanwhile, Russman is themself getting ready for a new shared-living experience, under a program that aims to address housing affordability and the challenges for older adults living alone.
Read MoreA dean’s designs, turn-of-the-century homes, appearances can be deceiving, and railroad-side living.
Read MoreGoing up: Ranch houses are usually defined by low lines and modest profiles, but two 1950s ranches that sold this month rise above the average—literally.
Read MoreA Samuel Stanton design, a small house with tiny-house vibes, an Amish-built barn, and a country estate off Washtenaw Ave.
Read MoreThe two-story brick house at 1411 Iroquois, which sold for $980,000, is in the Woodbury neighborhood, often described as “Burns Park adjacent.” Built in 1939, the house dates to the forty-five year period when the U-M Botanical Gardens were situated off Iroquois.
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The Zillow listings seem too good to be true: A 2-bed, 2-bath, 800-square-foot house on S. Maple for $125,000. A 3-bed, 3-bath 1,372-square-foot townhome on S. Wagner for $225,000. A 3-bed, 2-bath, 1,232-square-foot home on Jewett for $325,000.
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