Plymouth’s historic city center seems to be bucking the trend as more and more new businesses keep OPENING! While having lunch today at the Burger Spot, I noticed workers were busily preparing several new business openings including the Genuine Toy Co. and Avenue Market Fine Foods. It’s hard to keep track of all the new openings with Kilwin’s opening on May 13th at the corner of Penniman and Main and more new businesses on the way! It’s 
nice to see that small town America is still thriving right here in Plymouth, Michigan where you can walk to town and have dinner outside — and soon be able to buy gourmet fresh meats, speciality toys, and so much more!
Plymouth
Save the Stone Wall at the Plymouth’s Veteran’s Memorial Park!
Here’s my open letter to Wendy Harless, Plymouth Preservation Network dated January 27, 2009
Dear Wendy,
As a resident of the City of Plymouth and a local Realtor, I’d like to voice my support for the preservation of the stone wall located in the Veteran’s Memorial Park. Old stone walls like this are rare, and this particular one was built as a WPA project during the Great Depression. It is an historic wall, and is now a beautiful element of the wonderful new Veteran’s Memorial Park. It is my opinion that restoring the historic wall would be much better than demolishing the wall and replacing it with a new structure. So much of what makes our town of Plymouth a special and desirable place to live has to do with the preservation of these types of historic elements and their quiet presence in our daily lives.
Sincerely,
Carrie Bake-Wong
Realtor
Coldwell Banker Schweitzer-Bake
Phone: 734-788-2398
Email: carrie@bobbake.com
Frozen at the 2009 Plymouth International Ice Sculpture Festival:
This past weekend was Plymouth’s annual ice festival. Temperatures as low as single digits (Fahrenheit) were had, turning all of the festival-goers into moving ice sculptures. Friday was a warm blast into the upper 30’s, which caused the sculptures to melt a bit and become cloudy as they froze again as the temps plunged on Saturday. Luckily, there were blue skies all weekend though, which beckoned people to brave the cold and later regret it. Late Saturday, we walked down from our neighborhood with a couple other families with kids 5 and under. We were the only ones with a stroller for our kid (Oscar, age 4) and boy were we glad to have it! The other parents had to carry their kids at various times – kids really too big to comfortably carry, especially in sub-freezing temps. We made it down there, did a loop through the park and quickly returned back to our hood with kids in tow.
A side benefit of Plymouth’s many festivals is that we get a lot of out of town people driving through our neighborhood. Some park here and walk to the fest. This is good for real estate because it points out how close our neighborhood is to the restaurants, stores and goings on in the town of Plymouth. Right now, we have two listings in Hough Park, our hood, and they are located on Maple Street, a street lining the block of wooded parkland which is the actual “Hough Park” within our hood. During the Ice Fest, the feature sheets boxes we have in front of those homes were quickly depleted. Hopefully they have not already landed in recycle bins, but are serving a higher purpose.
Today I watched as the city’s crews took away the stands from the ice sculptures that had somehow been toppled over and broken. The rosy cheeks, hot chocolate stands, and ice sculptures will return again next January! For now, we’ll stay warm until the mercury rises.
– Carrie