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Inspectors found numerous issues, including a leaky roof, collapsing ceilings, and pest infestations.

The hotel was famously featured in a 2001 song and music video by The White Stripes.

An old and derelict residential hotel in Detroit that was immortalized in a song by The White Stripes has been shut down by the city.

The city issued an immediate vacate order on Monday morning, Sept. 22, for the Hotel Yorba, located in southwest Detroit at4020 W. Lafayette Blvd. near Clark Park. The order, citing "unsafe living conditions," required all residents inside the 99-year-old building to be out by 10 a.m.

Hotel Yorba dates to 1926 and is visible from I-75. The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house. The Michigan Departm

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