Via Manzoni, a luxury fashion boutique at 239 Pierce St. in downtown Birmingham, remained closed as of Sept. 30 after a burglary that owner Giulia Zhou estimated cost the store about $100,000 in merchandise.

In an update on its Instagram account, the boutique said it is restocking, working through the insurance process and evaluating its next steps. Customers can still shop online while the storefront is closed.

Zhou said the storefront had no merchandise to sell in WXYZ’s Sept. 29 report. Five men shattered the shop’s glass early Sept. 17, grabbed more than 200 luxury items and stuffed them into garbage bags, CBS News Detroit reported.

Zhou told WXYZ the burglary happened just after 4 a.m. The stolen goods included Prada and Gucci purses, jackets and Chanel sunglasses, according to FOX 2 Detroit.

In an Instagram post announcing the closure, Via Manzoni said nearly all its clothing, shoes and sunglasses had been stolen. The boutique initially planned to reopen the following week.

The boutique sits across the street from the Birmingham Police Department.

Police told WXYZ it was the second reported break-in at Via Manzoni, following one in June 2024. Zhou told FOX 2 that the burglars in the first break-in had not been caught.

After that burglary, Zhou said she added two alarms to each window and hired a third-party company to monitor the business around the clock.

“We have the security system. We have the window alarms but just somehow they could silence it,” Zhou told FOX 2.

Birmingham police told CBS News Detroit that the Sept. 17 burglary was targeted, posed no broader threat to the community and remained under investigation, with leads developed. Police told WXYZ that the people involved in both break-ins appeared to come from the same area outside Michigan.

Zhou told WXYZ that insurance would cover the broken window and most of the stolen merchandise. But replacement inventory could arrive too late for the season in which it was intended to be sold.

She said she moved from Italy to run the boutique, which she described as a family business.

The burglary has prompted neighboring merchants to reconsider their security. Danielle Schindler, owner of Scandia Home, told CBS News Detroit that the incident made her reassess her store’s precautions.

Schindler said she did not believe the targeted burglary reflected a broader safety threat to daytime shoppers and diners.

Jeff Merriam, identified by WXYZ as a local business owner, called for more police patrols in the neighborhood. Another local business owner, Mirriah Jackson, told the station that merchants felt “disheartened and confused” about the repeat break-in.

Via Manzoni opened in early 2023, according to the city’s February 2023 manager’s report.

Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to contact the Birmingham Police Department, WXYZ reported.