25 story Apartment building, 9 years old, to be razed in Seattle due to corrosion [View All]

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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Last updated 2:21 p.m. PT

High-rise unsafe; hundreds uprooted
By LINDSAY COHEN
KOMO-TV STAFF


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The nine-year-old McGuire Apartments high-rise is unsafe for occupancy and will soon be torn down.

A nine-year-old high-rise near downtown Seattle with hundreds of residents and dozens of retailers will soon be nothing but a hole in the city's skyline.


The 25-floor McGuire Apartment building at Second Avenue and Wall Street -- built in 2001 -- has to come down because it soon will be declared unsafe for occupancy by the city.

The building's occupants were told in last-minute meetings on Saturday that the building will have to be torn down -- and the residents need to be out as soon as possible.

KOMO News has learned that the issue involves cables, concrete and corrosion that have become so costly to repair that it would be cheaper for the owner to tear down the building than to fix it.

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