An upscale grocery market, Nourish Western Market, to take the space of a former Right Aid drug store at 42931 Woodward Avenue in Bloomfield Township that has been vacant for the past two years was approved by township trustees at the board meeting on Monday, February 23. The grocery market is owned by Steven Selvaggio and his son Steven Selvaggio who have operated a similar Western Market since 1988 in Ferndale. Steven Selvaggio explained to board members that the firm is p

Marking the finale to the years-long saga to find a home for Next senior services, Birmingham City Commissioners approved a 30-year lease agreement between the city and Next during the Monday, February 23, meeting for the former YMCA building located at 400 E. Lincoln.

Tamar Mediterranean, a restaurant offering a variety of food from the Mediterranean region, will be opening to replace the Zao Jun restaurant that used to be in the Bloomfield Plaza Shopping Center at Maple and Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township after the township board of trustees gave unanimous approval to its plans on Monday, February 23. The new restaurant, which will have 182 seats at 6608 Telegraph Road, is owned by Zia Battah. The planned hours of operation will be

During the Monday, February 23, meeting, Birmingham City Commissioners voted to declare necessity and approve the formation of a special assessment district for this year’s cape seal program.

Two women were reportedly arrested by Birmingham police following an alleged retail theft that took place the night of Thursday, February 12, at a store on the 100 block of S. Old Woodward.  Police were tipped off that the two women leaving the store had stolen merchandise on their persons. When officers caught up with the women, they reportedly found roughly $2,500 worth of merchandise stolen, approximately $1,200 coming from the Birmingham store and the remaining from other

After leaving mail and a couple packages inside her mailbox while she was at work, a Birmingham resident living at the 1000 block of Southfield in Birmingham came home to find all her mail had been stolen from inside the box.  She reported to Birmingham police officers that when she left for work around 6 a.m. the morning of Thursday, February 19, there were two packages and some mail in her mailbox. Around 6 p.m. that day, she came home to find all the mail missing.  Birming

Bloomfield Township police on Thursday, February 19, at approximately 8 p.m., were dispatched to Dicks Sporting Goods located at 2105 S. Telegraph Road for a retail fraud that had just occurred. Store employees stated that a Black female wearing all black stole miscellaneous Nike items and left in an unknown vehicle. Video surveillance showed a heavy-set Black female approximately 30-years-old entered the store at 7:57 p.m., selected three Nike items, and left the store witho

A Detroit woman was arrested in Birmingham the night of Thursday, February 12, after allegedly stealing items from a store at the 600 block of E. Maple by hiding them in her purse.  According to Birmingham police, an officer inside the store saw the woman hiding the items and left the store without paying. She was arrested shortly after and cited for retail fraud. The name of local businesses are seldom provided by Birmingham police.

A Bloomfield Hills woman was arrested near the 600 block of E. Maple Road in Birmingham the afternoon of Thursday, February 19, after being caught drinking alcohol drinks inside her car.  After officers were called and found the woman, she confirmed she had alcohol in her car and a drink that she had just recently finished. She was subsequently arrested and given a citation for open intoxicants in a motor vehicle.

Birmingham police are currently investigating the theft of several liquor bottles from a city grocery store the night of Monday, February 16, at the 600 block of E. Maple Road.  The store manager told police that an unknown man came into the store that night, took the bottles and left without paying.