Business News in Brighton

The old Brighton Donuts has undergone extensive remodeling and is likely to host a Potbelly Sandwich Shop and perhaps a T-Mobile cellular store, too.  Potbelly began in Chicago in 1977 and there are some stores in the west Detroit suburbs, as well as Ann Arbor.  The new building looks fantastic.

If you remember the florist shop in the newer building with Tim Horton’s and the BP Gas Station at Grand River and St. Paul Street, look for a Domino’s Pizza outlet there soon.

In case you missed it, the Leaf, Barley & Vine building on Grand River and North St (next to Stout Pub) has been taken over by a new mortgage lender, Treadstone Funding.  I got to see the building while work was in process and it is going to be a great addition to downtown. It's wonderful that the building is no longer sitting vacant.

The Grand River Crossing mall (near VG’s, across from the Brighton Bowl) will soon have an old Brighton favorite returning – Big Apple Bagels.

Davis Office Site – at Grand River and Best Buy Drive, the old buildings that held many small medical offices is almost done.  One of the tenants is going to be Panda Express, a “fast, casual Chinese restaurant”.  Current locations include Okemos, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Great Lakes Crossing, Allen Park and the Rochester area.

And if you’ve seen the construction on Challis Rd just west of the newly remodeled and reopened Big Boy, that’s going to be a Hampton Inn.

The City of Brighton continues to try to add more parking to meet demand. The Dairy Mart on Grand River and North Street has been demolished and will be another ‘Transitional Parking Lot’. Walking distance to downtown shops and restaurants, it will be another option for you, but it will be right turn only when exiting because it is so close to the traffic signal at North and Grand River and because of traffic volumes on Grand River.

Information above is believed to be correct, but things can happen! Negotiations fail, problems arise, that’s development.