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Facade falls from Uptown apartment building, damaging cars

For the second time in as many days, a facade fell from a Minneapolis building, this time involving an Uptown apartment building.

October 19, 2013 at 2:30AM

Bricks fell off an apartment building on the 3100 block of Emerson Avenue South, Friday, October 18, 2013 in Minneapolis. No injuries were reported, but cars were damaged. (Dml -/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

For the second time in as many days, a facade fell from a Minneapolis building, this time involving an apartment building in Uptown.

Bricks forming a facade on the building on the 3100 block of Emerson Avenue S. fell around 1 a.m. Friday, damaging parked cars, but causing no injuries.

On Thursday, part of an outer wall of a commercial building in the city's warehouse district collapsed. No one was injured in that incident.

STAFF REPORT

A pile of bricks and a damaged vehicle told the story of the collapse of a facade on a Minneapolis apartment building early Friday. (Dml -/The Minnesota Star Tribune)