Tag Archives: Sava Lelcaj

The Detroit News explores gentrification in Ypsilanti

As difficult and painful as it can be sometimes, I like living in a community where things like race and gentrification aren’t just swept under the rug, but actually discussed in public. The most recent example of this, if you haven’t seen it yet, is a front page story by Brianna Kelly in today’s Detroit […]

Posted in Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 69 Comments

Making way for the further mallification of Ann Arbor, this month Eastern Accents, Herb David, and Mahek all cease operations

Cities are living things. They grow older, like all of us, and they change. They evolve, or they die. I get that. I’ve grudgingly come to accept that the best things in life are transient. That realization doesn’t make it any easier, however, to accept it when good things, that genuinely make me happy, go […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 49 Comments

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