The Rise and Fall of Westside Barbecue
On a fall afternoon in 2015, Petra Bartosiewicz was walking her daughter to the pool when her nose...
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Business
Beet Jerky Bros
Best friends since they met at Clague Middle School in 2007, Theo Mourad and Aaron Brodkey grew up...
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Riverfront Conservancy
The fourteen acres wedged between the river, the Broadway bridges, and the Amtrak railroad were...
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The Office Glut Comes Home
When Covid shut down Michigan’s economy in March 2020, 400 DTE employees fled from the high-rise...
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The Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre
For three decades the tower supporting the screen of the Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre loomed over...
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A Parking Glut?
The pandemic’s aftereffects continue to reverberate downtown. When employees were sent home with...
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Good News/Bad News
It should have been the best of news for the Ann Arbor–based biotech company. On March 4, the New...
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Imagining Southtown
At a white library desk in Venue, Margaret Poscher is building an empire. Peering into her laptop...
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Arbor Lakes
“Three words I didn’t know when I graduated,” says Chuck Hutchins, who earned his mechanical...
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Vanishing Point
Last year, Ann Arbor–based Home Point Financial reported a loss of more than $160 million. As...
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New Dorms at Last
In February 2022, the regents voted to build a 1,200-bed dorm on North Campus. Less than ten...
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Brews and Cookies
Carlson, Greg Lobdell, and Chet Czaplicka founded Grizzly Peak, Blue Tractor, Jolly Pumpkin, and...
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Hotel Rebound
The Miami-based developer should know. He won city council approval to build a hotel on Glen Ave....
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Rise and Fall
It was the billion-dollar company that most Ann Arborites had never heard of. With offices on...
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Should We Divorce DTE?
The storm with up to seventy-five miles-per-hour mph winds that swept across Michigan last August,...
Read MoreRoromu Samu’s Second Career
A retired security aide at the Center For Forensic Psychiatry in York Township has opened African & Caribbean Food Market on Carpenter Rd. just north of Packard. Roromu Samu, a Nigerian who emigrated here in his late...
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John’s Side Job
To look at John Swider behind the counter at the Goodyear store on W. Stadium, you’d never guess...
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