In the end, even Julie Welch accepted the inevitable. Back in June 2023, she defiantly told MLive that she hoped never to sell 730 S. Division St., a 1,064-square-foot Cape Cod built in 1901. Her parents bought it in 1962 as a student rental, and she said, as far as she was concerned, “Build around me, and let’s coexist in peace.”
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Shortly after 6 a.m. on Feb. 19, residents of the West Side were jolted awake by the sound of an explosion, followed by the wail of fire and police sirens. A small house at 701 S. Seventh St. had blown up.
Read MoreSchool construction program buys three lots, Veridian sells its first three units, and a rebuild sells for more than three times its purchase price.
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His Bouma Group, Realtors had listed a very rare commodity: two nearly one-acre house lots at 2751 and 2731 Washtenaw Ave., just east of the Stadium fork. “But getting access to the land was the problem,” he says. “We found out that no buyer wanted to move forward on that property because they didn’t have access to it.”
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“I have the best of both worlds,” she says. “It feels like I’m in the country, but I’m close to downtown and the Old West Side.”
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Earlier this year, Kimberly Baker Crouch’s family sold the house on N. Fourth Ave. that five generations of Bakers had called home, and she and her niece Brianna Murphy moved to an apartment on Ann Arbor’s northeast side.
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When Marta Dabis first visited Great Oak Cohousing, she says, “I immediately knew that I had arrived home.” A Hungarian native and Zen Buddhist priest, Dabis says her neighborhood, where she’s lived since 2017, “feels like Europe inside,” with its colorful buildings clustered close together, community gardens, walking paths, and residents who know each other by name.
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As one of the “Morton Moms,” Erika Boehnke can count on getting at least ten texts a day—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. The Morton Moms, eight women who all live within a block on Morton Ave. in Burns Park, depend on each other to help out when life happens .
Read MoreA $150,000 sale on Hemlock Dr., Dusty May’s $2.2M Barton Hills pad, and a big month for $1M+ sales, sort of.
Read MoreMini-sub complete behind Courtyard Shops; ex-U-M provost returns; and Barton Hills sees unusual sales action.
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Jeff Hauptman’s office on the seventh floor of the 777 Building at Eisenhower and State has stunning views north to the U-M campus and downtown. But when he toured the building seven years ago, what really stayed with him was what he saw when he looked down—and saw how much space was used for nothing but parking cars.
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In December, assistant city administrator John Fournier presented city council with the staff’s...
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“It’s really happening,” laughs Matt Grocoff, his face flushed in the wind. “I can’t tell you the...
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Saline native Dave Reid walked to school in town while growing up in the last house in the city...
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The first time Ben Goldstein realized he was famous was in late June of this year, when some fans...
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Tucked away at the end of a long dirt driveway near a pond in what Marsi Parker Darwin calls “the...
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The Observer staff has been working remotely since the start of the pandemic. Now a company that’s...
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My family has been part of the Wines community for the last fourteen years. Flung west of the West...
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There’s an old-school community feel in my neighborhood. When I wander through it—say, up...
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“We live by the Costco,” I tell people about our home located in Pittsfield Township, and they...
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