As the owner of the Herb David Guitar Studio for 50 years, I have experienced the highs and lows of the ever-changing “Downtown, Liberty and State Street” businesses. The blatant shift from individual driven, personal care and service, to generic, cookie-cutter franchise establishments is destroying the once inventive and diverse ...
Talks are picking up again about the future of Ann Arbor's downtown library, three years after library officials put the brakes on a redevelopment project due to a bad economy. The Ann Arbor District Library's governing board voted recently in favor of transferring $45,000 from the library's fund balance to ...
Silvio’s Organic Pizza, a restaurant on North University Avenue near the University of Michigan campus, is trying to brand itself as a late-night spot for those looking to drink, listen to music and dance.
City officials said today they are strategizing with police to combat complaints about aggressive panhandling in downtown Ann Arbor.
There's been a lot of talk lately about the rising cost of parking in downtown Ann Arbor, where the standard meter rate recently went up to $1.40 an hour. A new pricing structure being discussed by the Downtown Development Authority could make it even more expensive soon — possibly $1.80 ...
Editor's note: The Ann Arbor CIty Council is expected to vote on a resolution on Monday night to reject the Valiant Partners hotel-conference center proposal. The Washtenaw County Hotel and Motel Association, which includes all of the major hotels in Ann Arbor, with over 1,800 employees, wishes to advise you ...
Ted Annis(Editor's note: This opinion piece has been revised to reflect that the proposal is for a conference center, rather than for a convention center.)A tightly-formed, determined cadre of current and past politicians, the Ann Arbor Library executive director and some of its board members, Ann Arbor city officials, Washtenaw ...
Shoppers were "elbow to elbow" Saturday at the Ann Arbor Kiwanis Holiday Thrift Sale, as Kiwanis member Burt Lamkin put it. "A lot of new folks came to our Christmas sale," said Lamkin, adding that he also saw a lot of shoppers who also come to Kiwanis Club's weekly rummage ...
The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority's Board Chair, Joan Lowenstein, will regularly share her thoughts about everything DDA on our website. Check out her first post, "Parking that's Just Right" and stay tuned for more great blog entries!
International retailers competed to earn the comic book industry’s equivalent of an Academy Award, but the winner was a downtown Ann Arbor retailer. Vault of Midnight was named the recipient of The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award Friday at the Eisner Comic Industry Awards during the 41st annual ...
Ann Arbor has a penchant for zero sum games. “I can’t win if you don’t lose” seems to be the de facto strategy for addressing community problems and creating (or avoiding) sustainable solutions. A case in point is the drama swirling around the historic designation-Heritage Row-City Place opportunity. I say ...
Since when is density near downtown a negative? I returned to town on Sunday to catch up with local happenings in Ann Arbor.com. I was appalled and surprised to learn of the fiasco of the City Council in refusing Alex de Parry’s Heritage Row proposal. As I understand from the ...
My sister sent me a message on Facebook, as frantic as most such messages are, with the following title: TOP OF THE PARK SCHEDULE OMG!! My sister and I have long accepted (celebrated, even) our hermitism, so I attribute this enthusiasm to the fun we had last year, free movies, ...
Another opportunity for Ann Arbor City Hall to get into the real estate business (which I say they should have no business entertaining such thoughts) was described in the May 20 AnnArbor.com article about a magnificent “Ashley Promenade.”
On Saturday, Ann Arbor will play host to the 39th annual Hash Bash. But while longtime emcee Adam Brook is confident that the stoner fest will draw a crowd, others, including former '60s activist John Sinclair, the man most identified with the Hash Bash, are more skeptical. "The Hash Bash ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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