Neighborhood Club Thrift Shop to Relocate to Mack Avenue

Employees of the are unpacking their merchandise and organizing it in their new space this week. The century-old community resale shop is relocating to 17888 Mack Ave. between Rivard and Washington in the City of Grosse Pointe.

Officials are not yet sure of the exact date the store will open, Neighborhood Club spokeswoman Amy Roy said. It will be determined after employees have completed unpacking the merchandise and figured out the configuration of the store, she said.

The store had to relocate because its former home at Waterloo and Notre Dame was demolished that is a joint project between Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe and the Neighborhood Club.

Officials in the worked with thrift shop officials to find possible locations, City Manager Peter Dame said. The goal, from the City's perspective had been to try to find a new location within the City so they would remain in the City, he said, and officials are happy this is ultimately the case.

, when it wanted to move into the vacant, former Shelby Paint store in the 19000 block of Mack.

The Woods city council denied the request due to the nature of the business. The Woods has an ordinance restricting businesses from selling any more than 25 percent of second hand goods and the thirft shop sells all second hand goods.

Dame said the new location not only allows the thrift shop to stay in the city but it also fills a vacant store front on Mack Avenue. Dame said several possible locations were given to the Thrift Shop officials as ideas for their relocation and the deal worked out at this building.

The merchandise had been in storage since the shop closed a few months ago. It was brought to the new location, which is nestled in with several other small businesses, this week, Roy said.

The hope is to be able to open next week, she said.

City of Grosse Pointe council also approved the thirft shop's site plans for the new location.