Posted on 06/29/2021 3:14:18 PM PDT by dynachrome
Oh yes the unfinished or vacant medium rise office or apartment buildings in seemingly tight markets? I saw that first in 1987 in Stamford CT. Apparently there are subsidies given to builders if buildings are unoccupied to keep them building more buildings. It was the strangest thing to me at the time? Unoccupied for years, then in one week the finish work and landscaping gets done and bam! Occupied!
Maybe raise the condo fees and got er fixed
They should have their pool drained. yesterday.
Mexican sidewalks:
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I had a coworker who stepped on a wooden plank on a sidewalk in Ensenada and it broke and she fell through. She broke her leg.
two-story parking garage ... “ha[s] reached the end of their useful life.
I had a coworker who stepped on a wooden plank on a sidewalk in Ensenada and it broke and she fell through. She broke her leg.
Ultimate strength design was allowed, but not required until 1977. Catastrophic collapse is why working stress design was removed from the code.
That caper was a lot more complex, and both JAMA, the original structural engineer, and WPM, who the county hired to do a third-party review agreed that the construction defects were repairable with the fix that the original engineer proposed.
Remember, that was during the height of the “great recession”, and the developers were upside down on the project, and looking to get out any way they could.
The Florida collapse is really strange though. Hard to figure out how that happened if it was not due to some sort of loss of support of the foundations.
Well, time to evacuate. That’s all I can say.
John D. McDonald wrote a novel about a similar building and a hurricane in Tampa.
Oh, the joys of collective ownership.
A lot of investors in Miami condos are about to lose their shirts.
Insurance won’t pay for the collapse, I bet, saying it’s a maintenance issue. Sorta like they do for termite damage. Slow, progressive, degradation that culminates in the final event.
You may know that Brickell is across the bay but I ve seen part flood. Beautiful area but full of RAT trash.
“Building collapse horrifies residents of Miami Beach condominium with ‘unsafe structure’ warning (built in 1971)”
And the Roman Coliseum still stands...
My well-maintained 70 year old ranch house (single story, wood frame, stick built) looks pretty good right now.
“the dems will insist that we pay for replacements of these buildings.”
Yep, you know that is coming. What will be their reason for us having to do that? The buyers didn’t know what they were getting into? Equity? Fairness?
Of course, if there are no POC owners, just white folks (and a lot of Jewish owners), they may actually say “tough luck!”
Thank you for the link.
Can’t the city condemn the building?
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