New Chinatown developing near Ypsilanti?

Southeast Michigan has lacked a real Chinatown for decades. A couple of Asian-American entrepreneurs in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area are trying to change that with their new expanded offerings.

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Could the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area organically grow its own Chinatown now that Hua Xing is expanding its Asian market business to include an adjacent restaurant? If plans for further expansion come to fruition, the answer could be yes.

Xingchou Wang, the owner of Hua Xing Asian Market and his management team have researched and toured many of North America's major metropolitan areas and noticed they all have something that Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti and Metro Detroit doesn't.

"The one thing they all have in common is a Chinatown," says Steve Xiao, the general manager of Hua Xing. "We don't have one."


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