PHOENIX — The owner of a well-known family business in Phoenix is not giving up in his efforts to rebuild after losing nearly everything in a fire.
Whiteman showed ABC15 on Tuesday what he was able to salvage from his beloved machine shop off Grand Avenue near Roosevelt Street.The cleanup process has come a long way since the business went up in flames a year ago. Whiteman tells ABC15 he thinks the fire may have been sparked by lightning. With no insurance, he had to do most of the work himself along with help from his sons.
Whiteman's resilience is something to admire, he has been working with an architect and structural engineer to bring his family back to life. Whiteman tells ABC15 he has been in talks with the historical society and would like to carry the idea of making the storefront similar to what it looked like in 1928.