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Klademenos, who owned the northside institution for twenty-nine years, says he decided to close for a number of reasons. "For one thing, I'm getting old." And since Pfizer closed its 3,200-employee campus across the street, "business was getting on the slow side." (Pfizer is now the U-M's North Campus Research Complex, but employment is still far below former levels.) He says he tried to sell the restaurant but couldn't find any takers.

Klademenos, seventy-two, is enjoying the break from the daily restaurant grind, but says it's hard to imagine retiring completely. "Who knows?" he says. "I might find a little thing to do a few hours a day. We'll see."   

[Originally published in January, 2012.]