ANN ARBOR, MI — “Live your best damn life” is the slogan at the newest luxury-branded apartment high-rise for University of Michigan students in Ann Arbor’s South U area.

Verve Ann Arbor , the newly completed 13-story building at 721 S. Forest Ave., welcomed its first tenants for the new school year on Aug. 7 and it’s now humming with activity.

Visitors step off Forest Avenue — just south of the lively South University Avenue corridor next to campus — into a spacious lounge with plentiful seating and unique decor, such as a drawing of a Greek statue yelling out, “Go blue!”

Attached to the lobby is a leasing office and already-popular coffee bar called the Misfit Society, serving up caffeinated brews and more. The business’ safety pin logo, associated with punk rockers and misfits of th

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