By Mark | October 3, 2011
Two of my friends, Joe Posch and Lisa Waud are in the running for a $50,000 prize in a competition called Hatch Detroit. The ultimate objective of the project, according to organizers Ted Balowski and Nick Gorga, is to get entrepreneurs moving into downtown Detroit, and trying new things. And, toward that end, both of […]
Posted in Dreamland Tonight, Retail, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged business ideas, crazy ideas that just might work, Hasan Mihyar, Hatch, Hatch Detroit, Hugh, Joe Posch, Lisa Waud, Nick Gorga, Pop-up for the Holidays, pop-up retail, Pot and Box, Shop Indie in Ypsi, Ted Balowski, The Great Ypsilanti Retail Challenge |
By Mark | December 16, 2010
Last year at about this time, I ran an interview with a friend of mine named Joe Posch about a pop-up (temporary) shop that he was opening in Detroit. Well, the business, called Hugh, is back again this Christmas season, and I tracked down Joe to find out what was new, and what, if anything, […]
Posted in Detroit, Retail | Also tagged bachelor style, barware, Bureau of Urban Living, buy local, Christmas gifts, City Bird, Danish stainless steel, drinking, entertaining, entrepreneurism, Esquire, gift ideas, Halloween USA, hoarding, Hugh, indy retail, Iodent Building, Joe Posch, Laura Abraham, Leopold's Books, Playboy, pop-up retail, Rachel's Place, retail in Detroit, reuse, Scandinavian chic. bachelor pad, Shop Local for the Holidays, ski holiday, Spectacles, teak, the still-ejaculating husk that was once Hugh Hefner, transient retail, vintage |
I don’t think it was an original idea. I must have heard it somewhere before. But, for the longest time now, I’ve been thinking that it would be neat to open a store here in Ypsi, in one of the otherwise unused downtown buildings, for a single day. The idea would be that it would […]
