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7 Year NFL Vet To Open Trading Card Store On Main Street

7 Year NFL Vet To Open Trading Card Store On Main Street

June 30, 2025

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🏈 NFL Vet Turned Shopkeeper: Taybor Pepper, a 7-year NFL vet (who was on the 49ers last season), is opening Ginza Marketplace, a trading card store at 319 Main Street (the old Your Media Exchange location). An MSU alum who attended Saline High School, Pepper is currently building out the shop and crowdsourcing store ideas on Instagram. Ginza is hoping to open next month.

Lower Town Riverfront Conservancy

📅 Opening Date: Broadway Park West, the long-awaited riverfront development on DTE’s former industrial site off Broadway Street (across the river from the Amtrak station) will officially open September 12. While all parts of the multi-stage development are not complete, the space now has paved trails, a pedestrian bridge, fresh grass, and new trees in place. Later this year, construction will begin on an events pavilion, condos, retail spaces, a nine-story hotel and a riverfront restaurant.

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🏗️ High-Rise Proposal: Last week, developers proposed a 10-story, all-electric high-rise on the corner of First & Huron that would replace Live nightclub, the Last Word, HanJan Pocha House, and the Arbor Atrium. If approved, the current 1920s-era brick buildings would be demolished and tenants would need to relocate. Residents can see renderings and give feedback at a community meeting July 8, 7-8 p.m., at Zingerman’s Greyline (100 N Ashley).

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🍕 One Bite, Everyone Knows The Rules: Coming soon signs promoting the Stubborn Brother have appeared on the ground floor of The Standard (405 Main St). The Stubborn Brother, an authentic New York style pizza restaurant, currently has a popular location on the University of Toledo’s campus. The Toledo location was crowned with internet fame after Barstool Founder (and U of M alum) Dave Portnoy reviewed the location and gave it a score of 8.1 and calling it “the best college pizza I’ve ever had”.

Torc.ai

🚚 Torc Comes To Town: Last week the Michigan Strategic Fund awarded Torc, an autonomous truck company, a $3 million grant to partially fund a new 32,000 square foot engineering center in Ann Arbor. The new engineering center will bring 500 new jobs to the area with an average salary of $177,000. Michigan won the project against competing bids in Texas and Virginia.

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🎸 Thursday’s Sonic Lunch Concert: Laith Al-Saadi

Style: Blues, Soul, Classic Rock
Popularity: 2,900 monthly Spotify listeners
Top Song: “Gone” with 334,000 plays
Links to Listen: Spotify or Apple Music
Concert Details: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm on the corner of Liberty and Division in downtown Ann Arbor