Longtime southwest Detroit grocer is celebrating 50 years in business on Saturday with a cake and cupcakes and other in-store specials.

Prince Valley Market, known for it sspecialties like tamales, is celebrating 50 years of serving the southwest Detroit community.

Southwest Detroit grocer Joe Gappy remembers standing outside the grocery store his family owned on the north side of Michigan Avenue and looking across the street at a Kroger store.

Fifty years later, that one-time Kroger grocery and Pay And Save store is now home to Prince Valley Market.

To mark its 50-year milestone, on Saturday, the market is hosting a free, public birthday party. The anniversary celebration also comes during National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs through Oct. 15. There will be cake, cupcakes, a ta

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