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"Our young Chinese players talk about Yao all the time??Oh, I wish he was here'?and I tell them that it's a waste of time talking about him. Look up at the ceiling, boys: There's his jersey. He's retired, and he's not coming back. Let...
“The old plaster ceiling came down, and it took down the hung ceiling, the water pipes, the electrical system, the water sprinklers,” he said.
According to Lichter, the collapse, which occurred at 7:30 in the morning on Dec. 29, brought down a 25-foot section of the ceiling. The market was open for business but no customers were in the store and no one was hurt.
“My daughter was in the store, and it collapsed just as she walked out from under it...I went up and the ceiling was down, water gushing. It was not a pretty sight,” he said.
But the business deal has complicated efforts to repair the ceiling, because each of the partners uses a different insurance company—delaying the start of repairs.