Building at Last
“There had been a few different times where it was under contract but then fell through for one...
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Business
Question Corner, August 2022
Q. Can you explain Michigan’s rules for ordering wine shipments? A. Michigan’s laws governing alcohol sales are labyrinthine. When the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933, the state set up a three-tier regulatory system: a...
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Marijuana Money
Being the dope capital of the Midwest finally pays off—in tax dollars. Of the state’s $150 million...
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Give My Books
That was the revelation on which Whalen founded his company, Give My Books in 2008. He was...
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A Rainy Day:
The day began inauspiciously. When I started the car; the radio came on and the unappealing voice...
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The Furniture Makers
How do you make a living with a degree in the arts? Blake Ratcliffe and Sherri Moore have built...
Read MoreRestaurant on Hold
Cesar Ochoa is ready to open his second restaurant on N. Main—if he can find enough employees. With a gleaming bar, colorful wall art, and a basement speakeasy with a secret entrance, Havana is otherwise set to offer...
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Mallek’s Closes
Mallek Service, the gas station/garage in the vee of Jackson and Dexter roads, closed on June 30....
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Down on Main Street
In a 1959 Ann Arbor News photo, the 100 block of S. Main St. is a kaleidoscope of storefronts and...
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Drug Overdose?
GlaxoSmithKline delivered the bad news in February: as of April 1, it was cutting Michigan...
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The Day Zingerman’s Deli Almost Closed
Sunday, March 15, 2020, marked Zingerman’s thirty-eighth anniversary, normally a time to...
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Walden in Pittsfield
According to Realtor.com, 4533 Carpenter Rd. was on the market for more than four years. From the...
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The Bank that Grew
Stan Dickson’s family owes a lot to the First National Bank in Howell. During the...
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Amazon in Pittsfield
For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...
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Drivers, Unite!
Webster is a senior VP of Hagerty, the classic-car-insurer-turned-automotive-lifestyle brand that...
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The Next Unicorn?
Workit Health is on a fast track to become only the third Ann Arbor-based “unicorn”...
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Robot Farewell
They were here: ten shiny, bicycle-wheeled robots. Then suddenly, they were gone. Refraction...
Read MoreVeridian, At Last?
Grocoff is the lawyer-turned-environmental evangelist behind Veridian at County Farm Park, a 110-unit development that the city approved last year for the former county juvenile justice center on Platt Rd. Based on the Latin...
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The Last High-Rises?
Ann Arbor’s profile has risen dramatically in the past twenty years. As the U-M added 10,000...
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