Flood cleanup continues at Detroit's historic David Stott Building

DETROIT – The city of Detroit wants the historic David Stott Building operational again by Friday.

Operational means no water in the two bottom floors and all the mechanical and electrical up and running. The damage a broken water pipe caused to the restaurant SkyBar will take much longer to fix -- if it ever is fixed.

"It's devastating. This is a piece of history. It's beautiful. It's my business. It's everything we worked to create just destroyed overnight," said Lynn Kassotis Uralli, the owner of Capital Park Grille at SkyBar.

Ceilings and walls were crumbling on Tuesday while there were icicles in places where the portable heaters couldn't reach. As for the water filling the bottom two floors, the cleanup company said it would be pumped out into the streets where the current temperature is closer to frostbite than to freezing.

The city is going to have someone make sure any water flowing onto the street is directed into a storm drain so it doesn't turn Griswold into an ice rink. There' still no word from the company that owns the Stott Building, China-based DDI.


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