![]() ![]() His plan from the beginning was to demolish it. With an unsalvageable foundation, it sold for $80,000. ![]() Last December he bought the house at 3441 Broad. So why didn’t Savas make it easy on himself and rent a downtown storefront? Savas claims nothing available was big enough. But Dexter community development director Michelle Aniol says that mostly “the design was the hurdle … It doesn’t have the ornate details that some may have desired.” Some of the opposition was from nearby residents who don’t want retail in their neighborhood. I’ve traveled considerably myself, and I think it’s a noble idea.” He believes in European notions of walkability, for instance. “ has worked all over the world, and he wants to bring coffee culture to Dexter. One of Savas’s more vocal opponents, John Hansen, agrees on that point. They’re not supposed to be workstations for people who can’t afford offices, he contends, but community centers, and Dexter needed one that’s open at night. One thing he saw was that Americans have gotten the wrong idea about coffeehouses. ![]() “When you live overseas and look back at your own country, you do it with a different lens,” Savas says. The Detroit-area native ran Michigan’s international trade and investment office in Tokyo from 1989 to 1995 and now lives in Loch Alpine. I used to work in the diplomatic corps,” says Savas. I spent years living overseas–Japan, New Zealand, Australia. It should be closed in before the first freeze,” promises Savas, a brash entrepreneur with a vision not everyone in Dexter shares. After six months of controversy, on July 27 the Dexter City Council approved plans for Jack Savas’s coffeehouse, the Strawberry Alarm Clock Cafe, on Broad St. ![]()
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