With reports of property damage from Saturday's disturbance still filing into East Lansing City Hall, a complete estimate of the weekend's events still is not available.
Local business owners and landlords still are assessing damage that might have been inflicted on their properties, Mayor Mark Meadows said.
"Oftentimes, reports come in a couple of weeks after something happened, like when a business owner notices a crack in a front window," Meadows said. "I am guessing, though, that when the police say there is little property damage, it's true."
City officials are expecting East Lansing's property damage estimate next week.
Despite police reports of unruly behavior, many properties weren't harmed by people out during the celebration.
"We are still assessing the damage, but it was minimal compared with what we have seen in the past," said Colin Cronin, area director of student properties for DTN Management Co. "However, we did have three windows broken that shattered down four flights of stairs."
Cronin said nearly 80 percent of boxes containing fire extinguishers were tampered with in some way, but it's not unusual for that to a happen.
"We see fire extinguishers let off about every one to two weeks during the year," he said.
Similar observations were noted down the street from the clusters of DTN's apartments. Harvey Clarizio, who owns a rental home on River Street, said his property didn't sustain any damage.
"I drove through the next day and you wouldn't know there was a riot," he said.
As crowds dispersed after the first wave of tear gas was deployed in Cedar Village, masses of fans gathered in the downtown by M.A.C. Avenue, creating problems for some area eateries.
"Everybody wanted to get away from the tear gas - people just kept running in and out," said Dan Vargas, assistant general manager of The Post, 213 Ann St. "It was a bad situation."
Vargas said customers sitting to the front of the restaurant complained about feeling the effects of tear gas, and kitchen staff also was teargassed when a canister was thrown into a rear parking lot.
"There was no one in the parking lot," he said. "I don't know why they shot it there."
Employees stationed in front of Harpers Restaurant and Brewpub, 131 Albert Ave., also complained about being teargassed, said Manager Renee Goodwin.
Despite the droves of people moving outside both establishments, no damages were reported at either one, employees from both establishments said.
"There was no real damage," Vargas said. "The police were trying to prevent something from happening."
