Affordable Ypsilanti starts to attract art galleries
Making a buck as an artist is easier when rents are lower. That tried-and-true stratefy is playing out in Ypsilanti where a number of artists are taking advantage of the city’s cheaper cost of living to open art galleries.
Find a walkable downtown with cheap retail space and it’s not long before an art gallery or two pops up. That’s the case in Ypsilanti as the resurgent college town’s cheap prices are attracting artists to set up shop in the city’s center.
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Although Leslie and David Austin’s art gallery in Petoskey was doing well, they realized that most of their clients spent most of the year in the southern part of the state, and they wanted to monopolize on that. So they settled on a space in downtown
The couple renovated a large space formerly occupied by a hair-braiding business at
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