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It will be a bittersweet moment on Saturday for Paul Wasserman, owner of Henry the Hatter, when he closes at 6 p.m. for the last time at 1307 Broadway in downtown Detroit.
Since 1952, the store has been at that site. Earlier this year, the Sterling Group, a real estate investment company, unceremoniously sent him a letter through its lawyer terminating the lease. The company, which has given him no indication what it plans to do with the space, did not immediately return a phone call from Deadline Detroit on Friday asking for comment.
Wasserman is currently looking for a new location downtown. He said one those locations is about a five-minute drive from the current spot. He also operates a store in Southfield.
Deadline Detroit's Allan Lengel stopped by the store Friday to talk to Wasserman, whose father Seymour Wasserman, bought the business in 1948. He died in 1998.
