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athy Jacobi may be
new to Ferndale, but
the owner of Ubiquity
Gallery is already
known as one of the city's
most visible catalysts for
change.
Less than a year ago, Ms.
Jacobi, 41, who previously
owned a jewelry store in
Southfield, moved to
Ferndale with her husband
Rick Jacobi, a local graphic
artist.
The Bloomfield Township
native, who arrived in her
new city via Ann Arbor,
Lansing and Southfield,
now plans to stay in
Ferndale. She is interim
president of the Ferndale
Business Association,
spending long hours meet-
ing and talking about the
city's potential with other
business owners to help
bring about long-needed
change.
"When Kathy came into
this community, she surely
made her presence known,"
says Joan Stefanski, execu-
tive vice president of the
Ferndale Chamber of
Commerce and a 16-year
Ferndale resident. "Kathy's
not afraid to go out and talk
to people."
Leslie Ketren, Ferndale's
new downtown manager,
says Ms. Jacobi is responsi-
ble for helping the city's
downtown merchants work
more cohesively, and she
credits the gallery owner

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with making her job a lot
easier.
She says it takes a part-
nership between the city
and its businesses to make
a downtown area like
Ferndale's work.
"Kathy is very dogmatic,"
Ms. Ketren says. "She gets
on the phone every day"
until she accomplishes
whatever it is that she's
after.
Those Ferndale residents
and business owners who
know her best respect that
tenacity. They say Ms.
Jacobi has helped the city's
25,000 residents and 800
businesses move from con-
sidering reshaping the city
to actually taking action.
She moved to Ferndale
shortly after she and Rick
were married, and immedi-
ately opened Ubiquity, an
art and collectibles store.
The months since her
arrival have been a whirl-
wind of working with the
people who hope to turn the
city into what Ms. Ketren
calls "the new hotspot of the
region."
Ms. Jacobi was recently
honored by 34 Ferndale
block clubs as the business-
person doing the most to
revitalize their city. "I've
got big plans," she says,
though she is quick to point
out that she didn't start the
change herself.
She simply joined exist-
ing organizations and