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#west-village
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Profile
March 26, 2025
Robert Encarnación opened two restaurants in one West Village building
Robert Encarnación bought the building at 8016 Kercheval Avenue from the Detroit Land Bank in April 2021. It took him four years to open it.
Profile
March 26, 2025
La Fonda Street and Encarnación open as a coffee-and-cantina pair in West Village
Robert Encarnación was a Bank of America small-business banker in Miami before he moved to Detroit. He came up for a weekend in April 2019. By the end of June he had moved.
Profile
November 15, 2024
Encarnacion and La Fonda Street open in West Village
Robert Encarnacion opened La Fonda Street in June 2024 and the Encarnacion coffee shop next to it as a soft opening that November.
Spotlight
August 16, 2024
Collect beer bar opened its license at 4 p.m. on a Friday and was pouring beer at 4:10
Collect spent six years on the second floor of a Gratiot building in Eastern Market, above what used to be Gather. In June 2024 the lease ran out.
