Unique downtown Ann Arbor apartment took years to create

One of downtown Ann Arbor’s most unique loft apartments and accompanying clubs (Cavern Club) can be yours for a small, seven-figure sum.

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The farm-equipment repair that took place in the third-story of the old Ann Arbor Implement Co. building on First Avenue is ancient history when you’re sitting in Nick Easton’s apartment, a wood-paneled, antique-filled, 3,000-square foot home.

It stretches the imagination to think that the same space has been home to such different scenes, and it took Easton – owner of the building that includes the Cavern Club complex of bars and dance floors on the first two stories – upwards of three years to complete the transition.

“It looked like a wood shop for two years, full of old carpenters tools,” he said. “I worked on it as I could afford it.”

Easton was an antique dealer before buying the building and converting it to one of the more popular nightspots in Ann Arbor, and its easy to see what he did with some of his left over pieces – the apartment is filled with items like old vases, lamps, a jukebox, a grandfather clock, and an old cash register.

Easton estimated about 35 percent of the pieces were recycled from his antique days. But there was no grand, overarching design, he said.

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