Listen to the full interview. Outgoing Ann Arbor DDA director Susan Pollay says she had been thinking about stepping down from the position for the past couple of years and decided to leave hoping to do some international travel before the pandemic began. She said the DDA is in the middle of doing some outstanding projects, and she felt it was a good time for her to step aside from the job. Pollay says while a lot has changed since she started the job, "so much has not changed" as well. She says the banking and retail presence has changed in downtown Ann Arbor over the past two decades mentioning the old Jacobson's store that used to be located downtown. She said they've seen a dramatic change in the amount of people who want to live in downtown Ann Arbor vs. run a business there. She says there are now more than eight thousand people living in downtown Ann Arbor, making it more of a "mixed use" community.