Another portion of Fifth Avenue in downtown Ann Arbor will close temporarily starting later this week, while it looks promising that an already closed portion will reopen soon. The two-block portion from Huron to Liberty Street will be closed to traffic during the work day from Friday through Monday while ...
After an initial test run in downtown Ann Arbor, local inventor Tim Jones is hoping to roll out his colorful, spinning Whirlydoodle creations on a grander scale. Think hundreds. Maybe thousands. About 20 of the small windmills with changing colored lights were installed on light poles around downtown Ann Arbor ...
As construction continues on the city's $50 million underground parking structure in downtown Ann Arbor, officials now say South Fifth Avenue should reopen by the end of May. A previous time line called for reopening the street two months ago. The entire project, which started in late 2009 and is ...
The Downtown Development Authority is inviting the public to take a survey to help shape a vision for four blocks in the middle of downtown Ann Arbor. The survey is the first piece of outreach for the Connecting William Street initiative, which was previously known as Midtown Discovery. The planning ...
Strong opposition to paying for parking in Ann Arbor, as well as threats of boycotting downtown businesses because of meter rates, can be traced back at least 74 years. Ray Detter, chairman of the Downtown Area Citizens Advisory Council, recently discovered a collection of old newspaper stories and photographs from ...
Downtown officials and the company behind an ambitious effort to add geothermal heat to a commercial building in Kerrytown hope the project will inspire similar alternative energy retrofits on a shared system in Ann Arbor. The work was concluded in late 2011 at the Marketplace Building at 303 Detroit Street, ...