Question: For which book retailer based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan was Howard Lorber on the Board of Directors?

 In May 2010, he became a member of the Board of Directors at Borders Group Inc. He is also associated with New Valley Corporation (formerly Western Union), Hallman & Lorber Associates (an actuarial firm), Aegis Capital Corporation (a broker-dealer), United Capital Corporation (real estate), and Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Howard Mark Lorber (born September 8, 1948) is an American businessman and investor.  He is the President and CEO of Vector Group Ltd., a holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.  He is also the Chairman of Douglas Elliman, a subsidiary of Vector Group, which is the largest residential real estate brokerage in the New York metropolitan area with 4,000 brokers as of 2014 (and an additional 300 in Florida).  He is also chairman of Nathan's Famous (a fast food chain in the New York area). <SEP> The Ann Arbor was an automobile manufactured in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by the Huron River Manufacturing Company from 1911–12.  The Ann Arbor was a dual-purpose vehicle, which could be converted from a private car, to a small pickup.  Automotive production, however, never succeeded in Ann Arbor.  The ill-fated Huron River Manufacturing Company, later the Star Motor Company, did not survive the fierce competition of the burgeoning auto industry.  The high cost of living in Ann Arbor meant higher wages and the distance from Detroit increased the cost of materials to a point where profit disappeared. <SEP> Borders Group, Inc. (former NYSE ticker symbol BGP) was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  In its final year, the company employed approximately 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores. <SEP> The Interact Home Computer is a rare, very early (1978) American home computer made by "Interact Electronics Inc" of Ann Arbor, Michigan.  It sold under the name "interact Model One home computer".  The original Ineract Model One computer was designed by Rick Barnich and Tim Anderson at 204 E. Washington in Ann Arbor, then moving to an office in Georgetown Mall on Packard St in Ann Arbor.  Interact Electronics Inc was a privately held company that was funded by Hongiman, Miller, Swartz and Cohn...a lawyer firm out of Detroit.  The President/Founder of Interact Electronics Inc was Ken Lochner, who was one of the original developers of the BASIC language based out of Dartmouth college.  Ken had started Interact Electronics Inc after a successful startup known as ADP Cyphernetics, the original computer time share company in Ann Arbor, now known as ADP Network Services.  Only a few thousand Interacts were sold before the company went bankrupt.  Most were sold by the liquidator "Protecto Enterprizes" of Barrington, Illinois through mail order sales.  The Interact Model One Home Computer debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in June 1978 at a price of $499.  The majority of sales were thru Mail Order houses and you could buy it off the shelf at Highland Appliance in the Detroit, MI area and Newman Computer Exchange in Ann Arbor.  Probably the most successful application available for the Interace was a program called "Message Center".  With it, a store could type in whatever message they wanted to appear scrolling on a TV screen...like Advertisements, or welcoming messages to guests in an office.  Although it was mostly a Game machine at the time with games such as Showdown, BlackJack and Chess, there was also BASIC programming where users could create their own programs in the BASIC computer language.  Customers began hooking up Interact to control everything from lights in their house, to a Chevrolet Corvette!