Almost ten years ago now, local entrepreneur Julia Collins decided to disregard the advice of many and open a small fitness studio in Downtown Ypsilanti, right next door to our local strip club. Well, it turns out that she was right. Her business, Ypsi Studio, has continued to grow since its initial launch, and, right […]
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Julia Collins, the owner of Ypsi Studio, on growing up in Ypsi, taking risks, and being successful when people thought you’d fail
Posted in History, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Aubree's, bikers, Bill French, Cleveland, Deja Vu, Depot Town, EMU, entrepreneurship, exercise, fitness, Ford, gangs, John Berchman Collins, John Norman Collins, judges, Julia Collins, Port Townsend LION, Pub 13, serial killers, Stacey Lei Krauss, The Alibi, Upper Peninsula, willPower & grace, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsi Studio 12 Comments
A little bit of Ypsi coming to a town near you…. maybe
AnnArbor.com has a piece by Tom Perkins today on Sandee, Bill and Andy French and their plans to franchise the popular Depot Town restaurant Aubree’s. I’d known that they had aspirations in this direction for a while now, but I had no idea how serious they were about it. According to the article, they even […]
Posted in Food, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti Also tagged Andy French, animatronics, Aubree's, beer drinking robots, Bill French, Cheers, Cliff, franchises, George Wendt, iFranchise, John Ratzenberger, Norm, Old Detroiter, robots, Tom Perkins 6 Comments
Two new notes on the City Council’s decision to take the parks back from the Depot Town CDC
I don’t want to flog a dead horse, but, over the past few days, a couple of interesting comments have been left on this site pertaining to the City Council’s decision last year to take back management of Riverside and Frog Island parks from the Depot Town CDC, and I thought that they should be […]