Horizon Books and the State Theatre are back open for business tonight in downtown Traverse City. They were closed for a week after a support column collapsed at the adjacent Red Ginger restaurant.
Horizon Books sales manager Amy Reynolds says the store opened five minutes after they got the go-ahead. “We were just all anxious to get our job done," Reynolds said. "And things pile up. I mean freight deliveries ... we couldn’t even reach our telephone to answer that.”
City officials cleared the theatre and bookstore to open at 2:55 this afternoon. Work crews continue to repair Red Ginger, where engineers are investigating what went wrong to cause the structural collapse.
The State Theatre opens in time to show “Saving Private Ryan” tonight -- to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the historic D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.