Gretchen Valade is known in Detroit cultural circles as the philanthropist whose intercession — $15 million worth and counting — saved the city’s Labor Day weekend jazz festival in 2005. Fewer know that Valade, heiress to the Carhartt clothing fortune, is as busy in her ninth decade as she’s ever been, playing a role in […]
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Web helps Upper Peninsula stores bolster hometown success
No one would mistake Marquette’s Front Street for the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. There’s only so much foot traffic retailers are going to see in this city of 21,000 on the southern shore of Lake Superior. Two Marquette retailers, though, have found ways to thrive both as a “brick and mortar” shop for their hometown […]