Despite having taken on as much as 6 million gallons of water during the flood, downtown's newest skyscraper reopened Monday, two weeks after the rain stopped falling.

Jimmy Barry, senior director of development at Barry Real Estate, the Pinnacle's developer, said there is damage in the below-ground parking decks, but things topside are shipshape.

Barry said there are slabs in the lower decks that will need replacing, as well as some electrical work, but the 600 above-ground spaces are open and nothing in the building proper was damaged – though water got within two feet of entering the lobby.

While the quick turnaround from flood to reopening was a surprise, Barry pointed to several of the tower's features as reasons.

"We designed the building to have water harvesting capabilities, so, for a time, the predesign helped us keep up with the water," he said.

The Pinnacle also has air conditioning units for each floor, rather than a central unit in the basement – which would have been lost due to flooding. Instead, the units stayed high and dry.

Barry said that, as recently as a week ago, it was unclear what the timetable would be for the reopening, but except for those underground spaces, the building has the all clear.

"Everything underground, we are keeping people out of there. That's just to make sure we get a clean bill of health from Servpro on the bottom of the deck and to do the slab repair," he said.