{"id":5049,"date":"2026-05-05T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/buffalo-wild-wings-closes-state-st-location-after-20-years\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:49:11","slug":"buffalo-wild-wings-closes-state-st-location-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/buffalo-wild-wings-closes-state-st-location-after-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Wild Wings closes State St. location after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-608206\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalowildwings.com\/locations\/us\/mi\/ann-arbor\/\">Buffalo Wild Wings<\/a> located at 205 S State St. officially closed its doors Sunday, after over 20 years of servicing the Ann Arbor community. The restaurant was owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icvpartners.com\/portfolio\/jkt-wings\/\">JK&amp;T Wings<\/a>, the largest Buffalo Wild Wings franchisee in the U.S., operating across eight states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an email to The Michigan Daily, Jean Lanfear, vice president of human resources at JK&amp;T, recognized the dedication which went into operating the restaurant since 2004.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply grateful to the Ann Arbor community, our property partner, and\u2014most importantly\u2014our amazing team members, past and present, who made this restaurant a special part of the city for over two decades,\u201d Lanfear wrote. \u201cServing students and the greater Ann Arbor community has truly been an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lanfear declined to share the reason for closure. Ann Arbor\u2019s other Buffalo Wild Wings location,\u00a0 at 3150 Boardwalk Dr., will remain open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><em>Summer News Editor Reese Kizy can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/news-briefs\/buffalo-wild-wings-serves-its-last-customers-after-over-20-years-at-state-st-location\/mailto:reesekiz@umich.edu\"><em>reesekiz@umich.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Wild Wings located at 205 S State St. officially closed its doors Sunday, after over 20 years of servicing the Ann Arbor community. The restaurant was owned by JK&amp;T Wings, the largest Buffalo Wild Wings franchisee in the U.S., operating across eight states.\u00a0 In an email to The Michigan Daily, Jean Lanfear, vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4622,3374,262,361,3757,3298,388],"class_list":{"0":"post-5049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-closes","10":"tag-location","11":"tag-state","12":"tag-wild","13":"tag-wings","14":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}