If you’ve ever visited Ann Arbor, you’ve most likely been to Kerrytown. It’s a section just north of downtown that still has cobblestone streets (when repairs become necessary, the cobblestones are painstakingly removed and numbered before they are put back in place).
Kerrytown is home to four Zingerman’s buildings, including the original Deli, as well as the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market and the Kerrytown Market and Shops, a set of buildings that house all manner of stores and food places. You’ll read more about Kerrytown’s revival in Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Kerrytown and its surrounding streets have become a culinary center, and it is where Barbara Wilson always wanted to put a shop for Mindo Chocolate Makers, the company she founded in Dexter, Mich., in 2009.
The problem was that she couldn’t find the right Kerrytown space, even though she was getting help from her friend Lisa McDonald, the owner of TeaHaus. (You met Lisa if you read my most recent Washington Post column.)
Last year, Lisa called Barbara and presented her with an idea. What if she moved in next door?
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