Good news could be on the way to Ypsilanti soon. City officials are chasing down several promising leads to get a new developer for the Water Street site thanks to the project's exposure at the national Brownfields conference in Detroit.
More than just another downtown hip hop store, for 29 years Ypsilanti's Puffer Reds has been a nationally recognized tastemaker. Customers come from as far away as Ohio to shop there, Nike provides them with a custom designed shoe display and Adidas celebrated the Forum's 25th-Anniversary by creating a sneaker designed by the owner's eighteen year old son. The store has got street cred to spare.
Living in the shoes of another person. That's the gimmick behind the new show from Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) who will follow the life of a gay couple with kids from Ypsilanti.
Half a million dollars may sound like peanuts to some major corporations, but a $500,000 gift from the American Electric Power Foundation means a lot to Eastern Michigan University. The money will help keep the school's new science equipment up to snuff for years.
Once upon a time, mineral water was viewed as the magic elixir for just about everything that ails people. Late in the 19th Century Ypsilanti's mineral water helped make it a center for this type of treatment.
Ann Arbor SPARK goes east and finds and old building to house their new business incubator in the growing city of Ypsilanti. Of course, renovations are scheduled and should be up and incubating by the fall.
The old Ypsilanti brings up images of blight and business flight. The new Ypsilanti is attracting business left and right to what many are calling the retail deal of Washtenaw County.
Work is getting ready to start on the new homes of SchoolPictures.com. The firm hopes to have shovels in the ground and hammers in the wall at its new Ypsilanti home by mid summer.
The Thompson Block may have signed enough tenants to move forward with construction but bureaucratic hoops that need jumping through as holding back work now. The developer hopes to start work in earnest this fall.
Eastern Michigan University's new president, Susan Martin, is making the rounds,. introducing herself to the local community. She tells what she thinks is in store for EMU in this interview with The Ann Arbor News.
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