Meh, sounds more like someone taking advantage of a standing offer to repair any incidental damage to get their already-broken window fixed for free than like the building actually being damaged.

... not that that matters, half of the point of putting up those standing repair offers is to get local residents to do exactly that, which makes them much, much less likely to file the usual NIMBY bullshiat complaints later on in the process of the teardown (or the more-legitimate complaints about noise and such, since you still have to cart away all the debris and so on).  It's not explicitly a bribe, as such, but let's say that the factor of safety in the incidental repair budgets for these kinds of projects are typically set higher than typical engineering standards would usually imply was necessary.