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A locally owned children’s clothing and equipment store and a Metro Detroit-based landscaping store are among two recent tenant additions at Ann Arbor’s Briarwood Mall.
Elephant Ears, which operates a store in the Kerrytown Market Shops building, and English Gardens, which has a store on Ann Arbor’s North Maple Road, both signed leases to open at Briarwood Mall.
Elephant Ears opened a store last week in Briarwood Mall.
“Having a secondary location in town, it starts to make sense,” said Denise Murray, Briarwood Mall’s marketing director. “Elephant Ears is a well known local company. …English Gardens is thrilled to be here.”
Elephant Ears opened its Briarwood store last week in a portion of the former Tricho Salon Spa space in the Von Maur wing of the mall. Tricho recently consolidated its two locations and opened one 6,500-square-foot salon and spa near MC Sports.
“(Tricho’s new space) used to be a pub over 10 years ago and it sat vacant,” Murray said. “It was a large space that went unused for a long time.”
Tricho Salon Spa consolidated its two Briarwood Mall locations into a 6,500-square-foot space near MC Sports.
She added: “We have no more in-line spaces to lease. That’s the first time I’ve been able to say that.”
Founded in 2006, the family-owned Elephant Ears store sells children’s clothing, accessories and equipment.
Meanwhile, English Gardens plans to open a temporary holiday store on Sunday in the former Tricho Salon Space near JC Penney, which has its own outdoor entrance. Renovations were underway on Friday morning as staff unpacked inventory and made finishing touches to the space. English Gardens operates 12 landscaping stores in the southeast Michigan region, including one store at 155 N. Maple Rd.
English Gardens plans to open a temporary holiday store at Briarwood Mall on Sunday.
“English Gardens has worked with Briarwood Mall many, many years,” Murray said. “A lot of times they will come in the spring and do exterior plant sales. This is (English Gardens’) first time out here to have a holiday shop, but it really does make sense. It will be here for three months, maybe four months and they are exploring if it’s the right fit.”
Other tenant changes at Briarwood include:
- Tatsu Sushi is preparing to open in the mall’s center court in late November
- Destination Maternity plans to move to the former IT… gift store space after IT… relocated
- Teen retailer Journeys plans to move to the existing Destination Maternity space
- The existing Journeys space will become a Journeys Kidz store
Lizzy Alfs is a business reporter for The Ann Arbor News. Reach her at 734-623-2584, email her lizzyalfs@mlive.com or follow her on Twitter.
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