Your Media Exchange announced its closure, effective May 25, due to flagging sales. It bought, sold, and traded movies, music, books, and video games for nearly three years at 319 S. Main.

Toledoan Broc Curry retains another YMX there, and his Diggers used media store, where all items are $1.50, will continue in Kerrytown Market & Shops.

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Curtis Commercial, landlord for the distinctive Marchese Brothers Building, which marks its centennial this year, has already secured a new tenant who expects to open this summer. Ginza MarketPlace will deal in trading cards, particularly Japanese brands, among its other offerings, according to co-owner Taybor Pepper of Dexter, who’s also an NFL long snapper, most recently with the San Francisco 49ers.

When Pancheros Mexican Grill opened at the Galleria Mall on South University in 1994, a cheese quesadilla cost only sixty cents. Catering to undergraduate budgets, it was the just the third location for a company that has since grown to more than seventy locations in thirteen states.

With the shopping center slated for redevelopment into high-rise apartments, Pancheros has bowed out after thirty years of satisfying many a student’s late-night burrito fix. Its fast-casual fare remains available locally near the Pittsfield Twp. Meijer store, at 3155 Ann Arbor–Saline Rd.

Bold, retro stylings and quirky branding couldn’t save Pizza Cat Max from the fate of its many predecessors at the parking-challenged corner of Packard and S. State.

Barely six months after launching its bright build-out, the full-service version of the Toledo-based brand is now the ninth eatery to close at that location in the past forty years.

Detroit-based DJ and entrepreneur Brian Jackson, the partner we interviewed upon its opening, wasn’t ready to elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the closure or their future plans. The business is listed for sale with Real Estate One: for $99,000 and the chance to take over the six-year, $10,000 per month lease, a buyer could reopen the business or use the furnishings, equipment, and liquor license for a new entity.

Kirkland’s Home is discounting its remaining stock of household decor at least 30 percent until June 20, its last day of business in Maple Village. “We’re sad to leave Ann Arbor,” says a store manager who asked not to be identified.

The Tennessee-based chain opened here in 2017. The manager notes that they tried unsuccessfully to get out of their lease during the pandemic, and when it came up for renewal this year, they lost out to a higher-paying tenant. The closest remaining Kirkland’s stores are in Canton and Novi.

A spokesperson for Brixmor Property Group confirms that Rally House will move into the 8,355-square-foot space, which is more than twice the size of the Maple Village storefront it opened last year.

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Kirkland’s Home, 341 N. Maple. (734) 519–7507. Through June 20: Mon.–Thurs. 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 10 a.m.–8 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.–6 p.m. kirklands.com

Next door, another chain retailer at Maple Village since 2017, children’s clothier Carter’s/OshKosh B’gosh, has already turned in their keys, leaving Canton as its nearest location. A pediatric medical practice will soon open in the spot near Plum Market, the Brixmor spokesperson reports.

As forewarned by the youthful manager we interviewed for the April issue, the XIMI-V store in Briarwood Mall is now vacant. The Korean-inspired, low-cost lifestyle retailer lasted only a few months in the mall’s increasingly desolate JCPenney wing.

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