Herman Kiefer Health Complex

Ok, yeah, I said in my review before «as far as I know the structure is in good shape». .. well. .. not so much. As every Detroiter probably now knows, the damn roof caved in because the city hired contractors to repaint areas that had suffered acute water damage but didn’t bother to fix the underlyng structural issue first so that more water leaked in and finally brought the roof down into the nice, freshly-​painted offices they just renovated. Fail.
And a pity, seriously, because this building could be a great, historic, renovated and re-​purposed facility if the money and drive to do such could be found. As it is, it will probably linger on housing city/​county workers until there’s a really dreadful accident or it just becomes unfit for anything but rodents. Then it will probably be abandoned. Then it will fall into the same sad state as so many other large structures in Detroit.
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This place is a dump! Seriously! It’s a medical facility but here’s the thing; it’s dingy, it’s dirty and it even smells funny. I had to use the bathroom and you would think that a medical facility’s restrooms would be happy, fresh places that smelled like pine.
NO! No this place with the nasty broken urinal and the john that looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in a week or so. Half the elevators were broken and had Perma-​Out of Order signs mounted on them.
The basement, where I had my appointment, reminded me of one of those creepy scenes in Hellraiser where the crazies lived except this was not a place for crazies (as far as I know).
Guess what I was here to get: My food handler’s card! SERIOUSLY? You’re trying to teach people to be sanitary in an old, smelly, dirty, dingy building like this?
I found myself wishing I had brought my camera so I could post it here.
Geesh! If you get sick I hope you don’t have to come here under any circumstance.
I really feel for the people that do.