Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex (report from 2018)
lawyers will make millions
So the city knew about this situation three years ago?!
The last two photos tell it!
Do you want it done good, fast, or cheap?
You only get to pick two.
Guess they went with fast and cheap.
Thank goodness for cheap labor.
Just doing the work that Americans refuse to do.
Wow, those last two pics. I’m sure there’s more pics that show the decay. That thing was crumbling.
Clearly we need to condemn all coastal buildings from Miami Beach to Boca Raton. No human occupation, no sale or purchase of property, and void all insurance....except for conservatives of course.
Condos are generally purchased by individual buyers; who do these people hold accountable when recommendations have been made and some alarms have been sounded?
Downside of buying a condo.
I read they were starting up $15 million in repairs. I think that works out to $95,000 per unit for condos in the $600,000 to $700,000 range. How long did the HOA board delay starting repairs? Think someone is going to be sued?
Imagine needing $95,000 in repairs to your house. That would cause a hit to your equity, perhaps put you under.
Imagine if you bought it one or two years ago and just found out it needed this much in repairs? Think somebody is going to be sued?
Wonder what this will do to the large condo market in Florida and elsewhere? What about timeshares?
IIRC the downtown Miami YMCA that existed in the 1970s was built using beach sand in the concrete. I don’t know when it was originally built but by the late 70s the concrete was spalling off the front and falling onto the sidewalk. I believe it was condemned and torn down in the 80s.
So there were indications, reports, and warnings.
AND the report was written over 2-1/2 years ago! If I lived in Champlain Towers North...I’d have been out of there already! I’m not that far from there but in a single-family house. Everything corrodes or weathers much faster in this environment.
I have a friends who live in a house built by Carl Fisher on Miami Beach after the 1926 hurricane. The house has a basement and it has 3 feet of water in the basement at high tide. But the house has stood strong for 94 years.
It took several minutes for the building to fall with the final even seen in the video being that last several seconds.