Former brewery gets remake as office for tech firm HookLogic
At the southern reaches of Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor, a brewery-turned-tech-firm transformation will be emerging this spring when e-commerce and digital marketing software provider HookLogic takes over the former Leopold Brothers Brewery building at 523 S. Main St. The New York-headquartered firm will be consolidating from two other downtown Ann Arbor offices totaling 5,000 square feet. A $9.5 million venture capital infusion from Massachusetts-based... [Read More...]
EAG Coatings Solutions grows with acquisition, adds 5 jobs
CAS-MI is now EAG Coatings Solutions after an acquisition earlier this year that has led to more hires at the Ypsilanti-based testing laboratory. The company has gone from six employees in 2008 to 17 today, including five new hires since the ownership change in April. "We're quickly running out of space," says Stephen Hall, vice president and general manager of EAG Coatings Solutions. "We have plans to have 5-6 more people in... [Read More...]
New flexible office space to open in Ann Arbor’s South State Commons
A global provider of flexible office space, virtual offices, and meeting rooms has taken note of Ann Arbor's entrepreneur community. In December, Belgium-based Regus will open an 11,000-square-foot flex-office block in the South State Commons building complex at South State Street and Oakbrook Drive in Ann Arbor. The space will be divided into roughly 54 offices, meeting rooms, and an administration area, according to Jeff Harshe, vice president... [Read More...]
U-M installs first geothermal system on campus
The University of Michigan is now sourcing some energy from water wells instead of oil wells. The indoor portion of the new Weisfeld Golf Center, opening this fall off of S. Main Street, is the first campus facility to be powered by geothermal technology, which uses the earth's temperature for heating and cooling. Heat pumps inside the building pump a water-glycol mixture through seven 300-foot-deep wells and into the ground, where the temperature... [Read More...]
U-M installs first geothermal system on campus
The University of Michigan is now sourcing some energy from water wells instead of oil wells. The indoor portion of the new Weisfeld Golf Center, opening this fall off of S. Main Street, is the first campus facility to be powered by geothermal technology, which uses the earth's temperature for heating and cooling. Heat pumps inside the building pump a water-glycol mixture through seven 300-foot-deep wells and into the ground, where the temperature... [Read More...]
U-M installs first geothermal system on campus
The University of Michigan is now sourcing some energy from water wells instead of oil wells. The indoor portion of the new Weisfeld Golf Center, opening this fall off of S. Main Street, is the first campus facility to be powered by geothermal technology, which uses the earth's temperature for heating and cooling. Heat pumps inside the building pump a water-glycol mixture through seven 300-foot-deep wells and into the ground, where the temperature... [Read More...]
U-M installs first geothermal system on campus
The University of Michigan is now sourcing some energy from water wells instead of oil wells. The indoor portion of the new Weisfeld Golf Center, opening this fall off of S. Main Street, is the first campus facility to be powered by geothermal technology, which uses the earth's temperature for heating and cooling. Heat pumps inside the building pump a water-glycol mixture through seven 300-foot-deep wells and into the ground, where the temperature... [Read More...]
Ann Arbor SPARK brokers Liebherr-Aerospace expansion in Saline
Ann Arbor SPARK has made its work practically synonymous with growing start-ups, but the business accelerator is doing more to grow other new economy segments of the region's entrepreneurial ecosystem. The latest example of that is the expansion of Liebherr-Aerospace's operations in Saline. The aerospace supplier is expanding its 100,000-square-foot facility by another 33,000 square feet for landing gear manufacturing. It's an expansion... [Read More...]
Salon Vox to add another floor, open cosmetology school
The downtown Ann Arbor hair salon featured as one of ELLE magazine’s top 100 salons in the U.S. for 2009 and 2010 is getting a new ‘do. Salon Vox recently purchased the basement and first two floors of its locale at 115 W. Liberty Street. The five-year-old salon has occupied the basement and first floor of the building. With the addition of the second floor, the new footprint will be 5,400 square feet, a 50% increase in size. The extra... [Read More...]
Congrats to Lycera: Biotech Company Moves to U-M’s NCRC
Congratulations to Lycera on graduating from our Michigan Life Science & Innovation Center biotech incubator to U-M’s North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)! The move will accommodate the growing company’s need for more space; in the fall, Lycera will move into 14,000 square feet at NCRC. Lycera, a biopharmaceutical company and University of Michigan spinoff, pioneers innovative approaches to the discovery and development of novel... [Read More...]
