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  • NYC pols urge Albany to OK tax break for ‘green’ mandate that could cost co-op, condo owners $20K

    03/18/2024 12:35:35 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/17/2024 | Carl Campanile
    New York City Council members feeling the heat from thousands of angry co-op and condo owners are urging state pols to OK tax breaks over a new “green” mandate that could cost more than $20,000 per unit. The City Council had actually approved the mandate, the Climate Mobilization Emissions Law, in 2019 requiring residential buildings to initially curb their greenhouse gas emissions by 40% and ultimately by 80% by 2050. But as the Big Apple’s already-financially-pressed residents flood members with complaints about how much more the regs will cost them, local pols are turning to Albany for help, seeking their...
  • Cringeworthy moment Washington councilmember and her husband yell at unhoused people to move off sidewalk in front of their condo despite supporting affordable housing

    03/01/2024 12:19:35 AM PST · by Libloather · 32 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2/28/24 | Alicia Wright
    A Washington Councilwoman was caught on camera having a heated exchange with unhoused people earlier this month. 'Y'all need to move because you're trespassing,' Burien Councilwoman Linda Akey can be heard telling a group of unhoused people outside her condo building in footage taken on February 10. Akey and her husband can be heard telling the group outside their tents of the city ordinance prohibiting camping on public property between 7 pm and 6 am. 'I live here and you do not belong here. You are trespassing right now,' Akey tells one individual in front of the Burien Town Square...
  • Nathan Wade Visited Fanni Willis at her condo over 3 dozen times including midnight visits before they said relationship began (Trumps attorneys have cell phone ping data)

    02/23/2024 7:51:40 AM PST · by janetjanet998 · 144 replies
    New court filing submitted this morning reveals that Nathan Wade visited Fani Willis' Hapeville neighborhood over three dozen times before the district attorney hired him to lead Fulton County’s election interference prosecution, according to cellphone data included in a court submission filed Friday. Data collected from Wade’s cellphone and cellphone tower transmissions were used to track his movements, and seem to contradict Wade’s testimony from last week in which he said he had visited Willis at her condo in Hapeville no more than 10 times before he was hired in November 2021. It also indicates Wade twice arrived late at...
  • North Miami Beach Condo Building Deemed Structurally Unsafe, Being Evacuated

    04/04/2022 4:02:23 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    NBC 6 Miami ^ | 04/04/2022
    A North Miami Beach condominium building was being evacuated Monday after it was deemed to be structurally unsafe, city officials said. The owners of Bayview 60 Homes at 3800 Northeast 168th Street requested the city order an immediate evacuation of residents from the five-story building, the city said in a statement. Footage showed residents leaving the building with suitcases and a police command center on the street outside the building.
  • Official: Drilling done, demolition of collapsed condo set (Surfside, Florida)

    07/04/2021 6:37:25 PM PDT · by Libloather · 45 replies
    AP 'News' ^ | 7/04/21 | Adriana Gomez Licon, Terry Spencer
    SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) - Demolition specialists finished boring holes and began laying explosives in them Sunday as they prepared to bring down the precarious but still-standing portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building, a top Miami-Dade fire official said. The work has suspended the search-and-rescue mission, but officials said it should eventually open up new areas for rescue teams to explore. Rescuers will await the “all-clear” after the demolition and then immediately dive back into the task of trying to locate any survivors buried under the rubble, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. Officials had previously said that...
  • Firefighter's 7-year-old daughter among victims of Florida condo collapse; death toll rises to 20

    07/02/2021 9:30:27 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    MSN ^ | 2 JULY 2021 | Christine Fernando, Wendy Rhodes and Rick Neale
    SURFSIDE, Fla. — A 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter was among two additional bodies found overnight in the rubble of the collapsed condo building outside Miami, raising the death toll to 20 with 128 people still missing. "This tragedy has haunted so many of us because so many of us know somebody who was in the building or affected by this tragedy," City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said Friday at a news conference. "Now, not only do we know someone, but this is someone who is a member of our family, of our fire family." Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella...
  • North Miami Beach's Crestview Towers condo evacuated due to unsafe conditions

    07/02/2021 5:23:59 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 37 replies
    WPEC ^ | Friday, July 2nd 2021 | DJ Siddiqi
    According to North Miami Beach Police Department, Crestview Towers condominiums in North Miami Beach is being evacuated due to structural and electrical conditions. The evacuation comes just a week after the Surfside condo collapse and as South Florida municipalities continue to push for more routine reviews of high-rise condominium complexes.
  • Surfside building collapse death toll rises to 22; search for 126 continues

    07/03/2021 4:03:01 AM PDT · by PghBaldy · 32 replies
    10 WPLG TV ^ | Jult 2 | Christian De La Rosa, Roy Ramos, Alex Finnie, Andrea Torres
    Out-of-state rescuers turned away after testing positive for coronavirus SURFSIDE, Fla. – Search-and-rescue teams looked for survivors through the 9th night and into the 10th day of a delicate operation after the Champlain Towers South collapse formed a compact mountain of pancaked concrete in Surfside. There were 126 people who remained unaccounted for Saturday.
  • Joe Biden Appears with Ron DeSantis After Miami Condo Collapse: ‘This Is Life and Death

    07/01/2021 9:09:40 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/01/2021 | Charlie Spiering
    President Joe Biden traveled to Miami, Florida to appear with Gov. Ron DeSantis and local officials on Thursday to signal support after the disastrous Surfside condo collapse. “Again, this is your show, we just want to make sure that whatever you need, including… anyway, I’m talking too much…” Biden said in his opening statement before turning the rescue and recovery efforts briefing over to local officials for comment.
  • Building collapse horrifies residents of Miami Beach condominium with ‘unsafe structure’ warning (built in 1971)

    06/29/2021 3:14:18 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 48 replies
    Local10 ^ | 6-29-21 | Hatzel Vela
    On Monday, several residents at Maison Grande Condominium, an 18-story building with 502 units, said they are worried about the safety of the 1971 building at 6039 Collins Ave., in Miami Beach. They have photographs showing corroded steel and concrete spalling. Records show there have been five inspections that determined the building is an “unsafe structure.” The building envelope is among the list of concerns. There were also warnings that the two-story parking garage and pool deck “have reached the end of their useful life and require repair, replacement,” or “a combination thereof.”
  • Revealed: Miami condo board warned of 'significantly worse' damage in April and hit owners with $15m repair bill weeks before it collapsed (trunc)

    06/29/2021 12:11:50 PM PDT · by libstripper · 22 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Jun. 29, 2021 | Harriet Alexander & Jennifer Smith
    Link only. Text is almost impossible to copy. That being said, this extensive, long DM article is just about the most complete to date. Along with its text, it includes a massive collection of photos and videos.
  • Granholm: ‘We Don’t Know Fully’ if Climate Change Played Role in Collapse of FL Condo

    06/29/2021 9:01:34 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 68 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/29/2021 | Trent Baker
    Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday suggested it is possible climate change led to the partial condominium collapse in Miami, FL. When asked on CNN’s “New Day” if climate change’s impact on “extraordinary tides” played a role in the condo collapse, Granholm said “we don’t know fully” if it did or not. She added that beaches all around are seeing the “phenomenon” of rising waters.
  • Biden to visit site of deadly Florida building collapse on Thursday

    06/29/2021 8:50:07 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 61 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 29, 2021 | 11:18am | Steven Nelson
    President Biden said Tuesday that he plans to visit the site of the deadly condo building collapse near Miami. “Hopefully as early as Thursday,” Biden told reporters as he left the White House for a trip to Wisconsin to promote a bipartisan infrastructure plan. The White House press office confirmed moments later that Biden and first lady Jill Biden will make the trip Thursday.
  • Before building collapse, $9M+ in repairs needed

    06/29/2021 2:45:25 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 29 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | June 28, 2021 | By CURT ANDERSON and BERNARD CONDON
    Owners of units in a Florida oceanfront condo building that collapsed with deadly consequences were just days away from a deadline to start making steep payments toward more than $9 million in major repairs that had been recommended nearly three years earlier. That cost estimate, from the Morabito Consultants engineering firm in 2018, meant owners at Champlain Towers South were facing payments of anywhere from $80,000 for a one-bedroom unit to $330,000 or so for a penthouse, to be paid all at once or in installments. Their first deadline was July 1. One resident whose apartment was spared, Adalberto Aguero,...
  • Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage

    06/28/2021 6:58:21 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 117 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | JUNE 28, 2021 | Y SARAH BLASKEY AND AARON LEIBOWITZ
    The contractor visited the condo building last week to put together a bid for a cosmetic restoration of the pool as well as to price out new pool equipment — a small piece of the multimillion-dollar restoration project that just was getting underway at the 40-year-old building. In the pool equipment room, located on the south side of the underground garage, the contractor saw another problem — exposed and corroding rebar in the concrete slab overhead. He snapped some pictures and sent them to his supervisor along with a note expressing concern that the job might be a bit more...
  • Horrified Florida condo resident saw cracks form in her apartment, heard a fearsome noise: 'It was infernal'

    06/28/2021 1:28:30 PM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 58 replies
    WND ^ | 06/27/2021 | Elizabeth Stauffer
    Personal accounts are just starting to emerge of the tragedy that unfolded Thursday morning after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condominium building in Surfside, Florida.Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued a news release Saturday evening that said that five victims have been confirmed dead, according to CNN. The report said 156 potential victims remain unaccounted for.One survivor, Iliana Monteagudo, who is in her 50s, recounted to the New York Post the terrifying moments after she was awoken about 1:30 a.m. by "strange noises."She told the Post she thought the sounds had come from an "open sliding...
  • A Primer on the Miami Condominium Collapse

    06/27/2021 8:33:55 AM PDT · by TheWriterTX · 114 replies
    FreeRepublic | 6/27/2021 | TheWriterTX
    There is a lot of misinformation floating around FR on the Miami condominium collapse. As a high-rise condominium manager, this story hit home. So here is a quick primer to help people combat fake news.First, this is not an apartment complex. In an apartment complex, an investor or group of investors owns the building and everyone is a transient tenant. It is a for-profit business. If there are major repairs needed, landlords can raise the rents to cover repairs.This is a condominium. Each unit has a separate owner, they purchase it with a mortgage or cash. Every month, unit pay...
  • Mother of Surfside building collapse victim lashes out at DeSantis for not ‘doing enough’

    06/26/2021 9:00:14 PM PDT · by willk · 116 replies
    https://www.local10.com/ ^ | Christian De La Rosa, Andrea Torres
    It has been an excruciatingly agonizing wait for the families of the victims of the building collapse in Miami-Dade County’s town of Surfside. On Saturday, Gov. Ron DeSantis went to meet them at the Grand Beach Hotel Surfside. Crews have been working overnight, through the rain, and even at the risk of spontaneous fires. Officials said they are doing their best to provide regular updates at the hotel. Still, some relatives are losing their patience. “It’s not enough,” a distraught mother told DeSantis. “Imagine if your children were in there. You are going to leave here and you are going...
  • Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex

    06/26/2021 11:28:59 AM PDT · by rxsid · 75 replies
    nytimes.com ^ | 06.26.2021 | Mike Baker and Anjali Singhvi
    Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo ComplexA consultant in 2018 urged the managers to repair cracked columns and crumbling concrete. The work was finally about to get underway when the building collapsed. Three years before the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex near Miami, a consultant found alarming evidence of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck and “abundant” cracking and crumbling of the columns, beams and walls of the parking garage under the 13-story building. The engineer’s report helped shape plans for a multimillion-dollar repair project that was set...
  • Collapsed Florida building flagged for ‘major structural damage’ in 2018 (pool deck above garage)

    06/26/2021 5:56:00 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 157 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6-26-21 | Jack Hobbs
    The partially collapsed Florida condo building, which has left at least four dead and 159 people missing, was flagged as having “major structural damage” in 2018, according to reports. A lack of proper drainage on the pool deck of Champlain Towers South condo, which sits above the building’s parking garage, was the source of the “main issue,” wrote engineer Frank Morabito, according to the Miami Herald. Years of standing water had seriously damaged the concrete structural slabs below the deck, a problem Morabito warned would be “extremely expensive” to fix. “Failure to replace waterproofing in the near future will cause...