Q. The old Washtenaw County Garage (I think) across the street from the YMCA has been demolished except for the chimney which is home to chimney swifts. It is beloved by Ann Arbor birders. Is the chimney being preserved and, I hope, being incorporated into whatever future development might occur?
Within its exposed brick walls, character-rich wood flooring, and high-backed booths, Red Hawk consistently served what became a loyal clientele of locals and university faculty and staff.
Since city council decided not to expand the primary runway at the Ann Arbor Municipal Airport last December, some are asking questions about the future of the property.
It’s not easy planning a “cheerful” Ukrainian celebration these days, but U-M statistician Iryna Bondarenko is determined to do just that. The observance of Vyshyvanka Day on May 15 “will not focus on the war,” she says. “ It’s something for people to enjoy.”
Al Gallup is ninety-eight and has lived in Ann Arbor all his life. However, the retired school administrator has never seen anything like the building now under construction near his home on Bydding Rd. “They’re building a house with a method I’ve never seen—Styrofoam—a lot of concrete work, [and] now more Styrofoam blocks came in,” says Gallup.
“When I said that to a random mom one time, she started crying,” the U-M Stamps grad continues. “She was like, ‘How am I doing? No one’s asked me that!’ And that’s what Mamas Network is about.”
City council voted unanimously in March to hold a special election on August 5 to consider two city charter amendments. Together, they’d enable construction of a new downtown library in a high-rise spanning the existing library parcel and the “Library Lot” above the underground parking structure.
Schools throughout the country responded, some by shuttering diversity programs, some by renaming webpages to make their pursuit of DEI less obvious, and some by resisting.
Yet by April only eleven were actually foreclosed and sold, and all of them were vacant: ten lots and one house.
If you have ever walked in Gallup Park, you’ve experienced the animal sculptures.
My husband and I had been wondering about replacing our own second car, a ten-year-old Buick Enclave SUV with 146,000 miles. As soon as we learned about the tariffs, we, too, hurried to dealer showrooms to see what we could find.
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It’s a cold spring afternoon, but ecologist Sheila Schueller is determined to find signs of life in her backyard pond. She scoops a wiggling alien-looking creature into her net. “Ooh, you see how it has baby wings right there?” she asks. Come summer, she explains, this nymph with the bulging eyes will emerge as a dragonfly and “eat up” any mosquitoes.
Big-name newcomers might be expected to rattle Ann Arbor’s independent businesses whose owners have Korean roots. But for now, at least, local proprietors say there’s room for everyone.
Billed as “photographs of the Asian American diaspora in the Midwest,” Strange You Never Knew is an anthropological study as much as an artistic one.
The operators of a new luxury hotel near U-M’s medical campus have chosen a French-inspired brasserie for their all-day restaurant concept.
An upscale Asian fusion restaurant has joined the fine-dining scene in the heart of downtown. Tabe (Japanese for “eat”) offers a low-key, elegant ambiance of exposed brick walls over three floors.
“It is a really, really tricky, tricky market right now, and it is competitive,” says Robbie Weeks. She and her husband, Hunter Weeks, recently opened The Jungle House in the green house on S. Ashley previously occupied by Liberty Cannabis and Greenstone Provisions before that.
Briarwood Mall shoppers and Planet Fitness members will soon have a spot for customizable Mediterranean cuisine, as Pita Express & Catering is expected to open May 1, according to the mall’s website.
As the student high-rise building boom thunders on, four businesses were displaced in recent weeks from the northeast corner of South University and Church St. Only one of them is reopening elsewhere.
StoneFruit Social, which opened last spring in Foundry Lofts, has relaunched under a new name: 1824 Cocktails & Coffee.
