Sally Mitani wrote her first Marketplace Changes column in January 2007. She figures that ten years immersed in the city’s retail and restaurant changes is long enough.

She’s not leaving right away, but she will take the September issue off to give me a chance to audition prospective new writers.

If you’d like to cover Ann Arbor’s marketplace for the Observer, email to explain why you find it interesting, and how you’d like to approach it.

Availability to write trial articles during July a plus. Intelligence and curiosity essential.

John Hilton

hilton@aaobserver.com