1962 postcard, collection Wystan StevensFarmer Grant's Market was a fruit and vegetable market on Jackson Road. It closed in 2001, and the parcel has since seen several redevelopment plans come and go. The most recent plans would put a Menards store on the 63 acre site.

In the news

Menards completes purchase of 63-acre Jackson Road property for $7.4M, AnnArbor.com, June 24, 2013

Final Farmer Grant parcel sold for over $6M, Ann Arbor News, December 13, 2007

Ann Arbor Observer, July 2001, Marketplace Closings section.

Businesses get schooled in 'culture' of the Internet, Network World, March 21, 1994.

Larry Grant, whose family runs a 100-acre farm, a flower shop and a farm stand in Ann Arbor, Mich., has had a flower catalog on the Internet since around Valentine's Day. Users can see color pictures of bouquets and place orders on-line. Grant says he's received orders from all over the U.S., as well as from Canada and Japan.