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More Marketplace Changes

by Tony McReynolds & Sally Mitani

posted 5/24/2009

Gwen Kassa bought the University Flower Shop in Nickels Arcade from longtime owner Dolly Holek in February. Holek, who’s in her early sixties, owned the store for twenty years and she’ll be working there part time for at least a year as Kassa’s sole employee.

Kassa, forty-five, worked at the Ann Arbor News for seventeen years as its human resources manager before leaving two years ago to pursue what she calls her “landscape vocation.”

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