ANN ARBOR, MI — Cleanup work is continuing in Ann Arbor’s Old West Side Historic District where a historic brewery building had parts of its roof and bricks torn off from last week’s EF-1 tornado.
Fourth Street has been closed for several days due to the building debris in the street and crews still were working to haul it away Monday, April 20.
The old brick building at 416 Fourth St. originally was a brewery going back to the 1800s. It was once known as the Western Brewery and later the Ann Arbor Brewing Co. into the 1930s and ’40s.
After later being used by the Argus camera company and the University of Michigan, for most of the past four decades the four-story building was home to Mathematical Reviews, a journal published by the American Mathematical Society.
The nonprofit journal moved across the street in 2024 and has worked with the Chaconas Group at Colliers Ann Arbor to market its former space for $3.3 million, possibly to be converted to condos…