Grand Rapids,MI :Grand Rapids restaurant closes abruptly after being hit by car on June, Thursday 15th 2017

A little over a week after a car plunged through a window, a restaurant on Grand Rapids' burgeoning West Side has shuttered.

Black Heron Kitchen & Bar, at 428 Bridge St. NW, announced the closure in a note left on its door: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Black Heron will be CLOSED until further notice. Thank you for your loyal patronage!"

Seth and Laura Porter, who opened the restaurant in 2015, haven't yet acknowledged Black Heron's recent closure on the restaurant's Facebook page.

They didn't immediately respond to a call or Facebook message from MLive and The Grand Rapids Press.

But Porter dashed any hopes the restaurant might reopen in a comment left on a Facebook post in the DrinkGR group.

"Black Heron, unfortunately, has closed its doors forever," he wrote.

Porter was responding to a thread about what happened to the restaurant that appeared to have closed its doors sometime around June 13.

Some questioned if June 3 crash brought about the closure, or if the demise was the result of increased West Side competition. Plywood still covers the broken window.

The restaurant was "pretty busy" before three new restaurants - New Holland Brewing's Knickerbocker, Sovengard and Butcher's Union - opened in the last year.



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Grand Rapids restaurant closes abruptly after being hit by car