[Rizzo]

The Union at Midtown...a new apartment complex across the Street from Wayne State University is to be demolished.....then reconstructed due to flood damage.

Total loss to catastrophic floods as a result of plumbing failure is extremely rare unless it was due to a fire sprinkler failing, but usually an alarm would be triggered and the water shut off before water begins to move laterally to other units. It's happened in my building, but typically water is isolated to a single apartment, as it dumps down into the plumbing chases, and across the basement floor until it reaches a storm drain. Not sure how this building was constructed to accommodate accidental flooding.