May 8, 2014 By December Portage will be the home for Earth Fare, a supermarket of natural and organic food. The first Michigan store for the retailer that started in 1975 in Asheville, N.C., has locations across the Midwest and Southeast and calls itself “The Healthy Supermarket” will open in a new shopping center at the southwest corner of Kilgore Road and Westnedge Avenue, near Lowe’s. Earth Fare…
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January 15, 2014 5475 Beckley Road, now known as Minges Shoppes, has been given a facelift by the Hinman Company. This is one of four Battle Creek buildings that have been given a major overhaul in the past three years by Hinman. The former Furniture Row building, located at the corner of Beckley Road and Riverside Drive, sat vacant for years before it was eventually purchased by Hinman…
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February 3, 2010 KALAMAZOO, MI – The Hinman Company and Kerr Real Estate announce the acquisition of the former 131,000 square foot Wal-Mart store in Frenchtown Township (Monroe), Michigan. Rich MacDonald, COO of The Hinman Company, said, “The acquisition represents the first of a planned and important growth strategy for our company, capitalizing on the inherent value of under-utilized existing property vs. the replacement cost of new development.”…
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