From the article:
"Without anyone venturing inside, the city declared its intention over the weekend to finish the job that the mysterious wall-slide started. Unsafe, decreed the Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department, along with the Detroit Fire Department. Gotta go."
I think that inspectors not "venturing inside" is how the building got to the point where the wall collapsed to begin with.
I'm not sure how it works in Detroit, but I have relatives who own a business in Grosse Pointe, and they have an inspector come every few years to make sure the building is safe. As the building is old, they find stuff fairly regularly.
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