South Florida apartment building evacuated after engineers deem it structurally unsafe
The city of North Miami Beach, Florida, ordered the evacuation of a five-story, 60-unit apartment building Monday following an evaluation by a South Florida engineering firm that found the building to be "structurally unsound."
The city received a letter from an engineering firm on Monday notifying the property owner and city officials of the firm's findings after a months-long investigation, according to a news release. The apartment building, Bayview 60 Homes, was built in 1972, according to the release. Fifty-five of the building's 60 units were occupied as of Monday, city officials said.
The building is about three miles north of the Champlain Towers South, the Surfside condo tower that partially collapsed last summer, killing nearly 100 people. The disaster unnerved some residents of coastal properties in Florida and beyond and prompted North Miami Beach to launch a review of all high-rise condo buildings above five stories.
Since last July, several units in the Bayview 60 Homes building have been under repair ahead of the property's 50 Year Recertification inspections.
Susset Cabrera, Chief Communications Officer for North Miami Beach, told CNN on Monday that the owner of the building "verbally requested that the city order an immediate evacuation of residents" based on the engineering report.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/us/south-florida-building-evacuated-unsafe/index.html
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Here we go again some more.
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