2020 March

Elevation Burger announced the closure of both of its Ann Arbor locations with signs left in the windows of the chain’s Liberty and Washtenaw Ave. restaurants. The abrupt late January closure leaves the California-based...

The Local Bike Shop on S. Fourth Ave. closed just shy of its fourth birthday. In an email, owner Brad Stark cites “a variety of reasons–high downtown rent, stress of managing & running a business, and not being...

Though posters in the window of Suburban Fiat Alfa-Romeo on W. Stadium still celebrate a victory in a Car and Driver comparison test, the lot is bare, and Google now lists an address on Jackson Rd. The last unsold Fiats and...

Lucky’s Market, on South Industrial Ave., announced its closure in late January. Both its opening and closing can be traced to decisions by Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the U.S.When its decades-old lease at South...

Ann Arbor’s second PetPeople store opened in Cranbrook Village at the end of January. It’s the seventh Michigan location for the twenty-year-old Ohio-based chain, which features high-end pet food, toys, bedding,...

Two more bubble tea shops, Tea Ninja and Ding Tea, opened near Central Campus in January. Each is within a block from Chatime, one of last year’s new arrivals, and a couple of Chinese restaurants on William Street that...