Out of Ireland, Kasoa

New on Trade Center Drive

by Sally Mitani

posted 10/24/2011

Trade Center Drive is mainly a warehouse district, but retail businesses occasionally pop up. Off the beaten path is putting it mildly--it makes Airport Blvd. look like Main Street. But if you can find the lane that snakes off Ellsworth between the US-23 and I-94 overpasses, the building numbers are well marked, and there's no reason why the tenants can't use their little front offices as retail space. The Ann Arbor Tortilla Factory started here. Kasoa African Market, with its shelves of peanut and cocoa butter products, vivid bolts of

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