Wall Tumbles from Building in Grosse Pointe Woods (Update at 6:40 p.m.)

UPDATED JUNE 7 AT 6:40 P.M. Huntington has reopened to traffic. But both businesses—Sherwin Williams Paints and Mack Avenue Grill—as well as a sidewalk in front of the building remain closed.

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and the in Grosse Pointe Woods remain closed after part of a wall collapsed early Thursday morning.

Part of the brick facade peeled away from the block wall on the building that houses the two businesses on Mack Avenue, according to an email from Grosse Pointe Woods City Administrator Al Fincham.

Grosse Pointe Woods public safety officers and Grosse Pointe Woods Building Official Gene Tutag arrived on the scene at approximately 5 a.m.

“We are very fortunate no one was injured,” Fincham said in the email.

Fincham also said that the businesses will remain closed until the building is deemed safe by Tutag and until insurance investigators could review the damage. Workers were trying to fix the facade Thursday afternoon.

A small part of Huntington Avenue from Mack to the alley also is closed, though Fincham said the road likely will reopen later Thursday.