B-Cubed Bakery sits on the corner of a lot mostly covered in weedy asphalt at 741 Emerick St. in Ypsilanti Township, adjacent to the former Gault Village shopping center at the heart of the Gault Village neighborhood.
The neighborhood had become a food desert since the shopping center declined, landlord promises went unfulfilled, and redevelopment efforts stalled. But B-Cubed owner Benjamin Brown’s shop has been bringing local baked goods, plus coffee from Ypsi-based Hyperion Coffee Co., to the neighborhood since last October.
“The only [local food] options people have are going to the other end of Grove Road for fast food or the gas station toward this end of [Ford Lake], so people have loved having us here,” Brown says. “People are able to walk here and get food.”…