When I first moved to Ann Arbor in 1985, I drove down Hoover St. and thought I was in heaven. Right next to one another was Purchase Radio and a bike shop whose name I forget. These were my two biggest hobbies at the time.
The bike shop, as I recall, didn’t last long at that location. Purchase Radio, however, persisted until 2007, at which point it closed because the last proprietor–the founder’s son-in-law–decided to retire. I actually thought about buying the business, but for one reason or another, that just wasn’t to be.
The building has been vacant since then……until now anyway. I drove by there yesterday, and discovered that the building had been razed.
I don’t know what’s planned for that site, but life moves on.