A $57 million construction project is taking the moribund Ann Arbor Research Park back to its roots. It was created in 1959 to lure corporate research facilities to Ann Arbor, but when Grace Shackman checked in a 2018 Observer article (“The Underwhelming History of the Ann Arbor Research Park”), just six of the twenty-seven buildings at S. State and Ellsworth were devoted to research. Since then, the only activity has been the construction of a pair of hotels.

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