The area around Mishawaka's 100 Center is blocked off after bricks fell from the top of an iconic smokestack.

It happened sometime between Thursday evening and Friday morning outside The Smokestack Brew.

No word yet on what caused the bricks to fall down. Thankfully, no one was injured.

Susann Nilsson has been living at the 100 Center Apartments nearby for almost eight years.

For most of those years, she spent it taking pictures in front of the iconic smokestack that has been standing up since the mid-1850's.

But as she made her way home Friday, she noticed this historic landmark wasn't the same.

"I came out this morning to go to a doctor's appointment and then I seen them taping it off and I wasn't sure what happened and then now when I came back home, I saw the hole. There's a big hole on top," Nilsson told 16 News Now.

Officials say they received a call about brick breaking out of the peak of the smokestack in the middle of the night.

Now, a big gaping hole sits at the top of it with concern from resident Louie Checchio that the rest might come crashing down.

"It's a very old building and everything is got to come down. It's dry-rotted. I've walked behind the building and seen the bricks coming out already," Checchio says.

Below the smokestack stands The Smokestack Brew that has become the area's premiere weekend live music destination since opening its doors in 2015.

However, for both Checchio and Nilsson, if the smokestack has to come down, they are worried The Smokestack Brew may go down with it.

"I hope everybody survives alright because as far as the people that has a job there, the bartenders, waitresses and all that, I hope they make it out okay," Checchio said.

"It hurts. It hurts because like I said, I worry about them not being able to repair it and it's going to have to come. That would be a sad day," Nilsson says.

The 100 Center is located just north of Lincolnway West and Center Street. Parts of Center Street and Island View Lane are blocked off.

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