DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit’s popular Temple Bar on Cass Avenue is now temporarily closed after its facade crumbled.
VIDEO: See the scene of Temple Bar after the facade collapsed
The manager of the bar told us they were open Thursday night and there was no situation. At around 10 a.m on Friday, the front of the building started to collapse.
There was no one inside the bar at the time and there were no injuries.
The bar is now closed until repairs are completed and a structural engineer says it's OK to be occupied.
“This is rough. You know, we got a staff here and the staff is going to be out of work for a while, but we’ll get by. We always do,” bar manager Larry Love said.
Temple Bar opened nearly a century ago in 1927.
“Definitely a bar focused on locals and got a lot of community-based nature to it," Mitchell Jeffery said.
Jeffery says he frequently visited Temple Bar when he was a graduate student at Wayne State University.
Jeffery is from Michigan but lives in Tennessee now.
He came back to Detroit for the Movement Music Festival this weekend and planned on stopping by Temple Bar.
“I actually literally just thought about coming back here because I don’t live here anymore, so I was like I kind of want to come back and see it and unfortunately, I can’t," Jeffery said.
Love says the bar staff were expecting a big crowd over the weekend due to the festival.
“This is movement weekend, the biggest party weekend of the city as far as I’m concerned," Love said. "We’ve got people flying in from all over the world to hear live techno music, so between our events at Temple Bar every Friday and Saturday... We were prepared for a busy weekend.”
