Old World Bakery settles into its new location in Ypsilanti
Smell that? Well, you could smell those delicious smells if you lived in Ypsilanti where the Old World Bakery just set up shop.
Do you know the Muffin Man?
The Muffin Man?
The Muffin Man.
Who lives on Drury Lane?
Uh…, no, actually on Huron. In downtown Ypsilanti.
Another business has abandoned the blandness of suburban strip mall for Ypsi’s city center.
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The tin ceiling, the wooden floors, the central downtown location – everything about the space at 40 N. Huron St. in Ypsilanti seemed to scream Old World Bakery to Tim Edinger.
He’d been scouting various sites around Washtenaw County for years for a retail location for his growing cheesecake business. He opened the store in Ypsilanti last month in a 1,200-square-foot former office space that neighbors World of Rocks. Previously, his wholesale bakery was on Plaza Drive in Pittsfield Township.
“I put the kitchen in the back part of the building, and in the front is the production area and retail, so people can see us working in here from the street,” Edinger said. “It makes you feel like you are in mom’s kitchen, like we made dessert just for you.”
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