The Pear Tree Store Opens With a Flourish in Dixboro
Dixboro, MI – Jan McCormick says Dixboro, with its village green and annual fair, is just like an English country village. She used to say the quaint center of the town was a great place for a gift shop — and now she’s the owner of the towns newest one, The Pear Tree.
McCormick, originally from Dundee — just north of Edinburgh, Scotland — and her English husband, John McCormick, moved to the United States 28 years ago when he took a job as a writer for Crain’s Auto Week. They’ve called Dixboro home the entire time, and McCormick says she’s seen the town come alive throughout the years.
The area on and around Plymouth Road has been growing, she said. “We have Moonwinks Cafe, the General Store, Balance Massage Therapy, Roger Monks and of course the Humane Society of Huron Valley,” she explains with pride as she talks about how the area is developing. As McCormick watched the property between Moonwinks and Balance Massage come up for lease more than a year ago, she started to devise a plan.
