Footage of the Miami condo building collapse:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TooMuchMe/status/1408115188969127938
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlfredSpellman/status/1408128066539462669
So far I’d only heard of one death and didn’t realize how large a collapse it was. That’s a much bigger disaster than what initial reports led me to believe.
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Now up to 99 people unaccounted for.
So I heard from a friend that her ex texted her this morning about the construction next door. He does something with insurance and they were trying to win an insurance contract for the building that was being built. He said he’s pretty sure that had something to do with the collapse. They found out yesterday that they didn’t get the contract, and he’s never been so thankful waking up today hearjng the news.
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Oh shit, wow. Yeah, I’m in the same boat.
Tragic. When I first heard the news of the collapse I was hoping it was one of those condo buildings where the units were mainly sold for money laundering purposes and are mostly vacant.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article252325063.html
Nearly 70% of Champlain Towers was occupied by primary homeowners and second homeowners, said the Compass Realtor by email and text. Units ranged from 1,500-square-foot, two-bedroom homes to 2,200-square-foot, three-bedroom homes. Prices ranged from $500,000 to $1.2 million. Penthouse unit 1012, a Compass spokesperson said, sold for $1.1 million in January 2020.
Surely there’s nothing suspicious about the operating practices of high rise property developers in Florida. I’m sure they uphold the highest professional standards.
honestly, absent some kind of explosion, i was thinking sinkhole or something. even poorly built buildings don’t collapse without visible warning signs on their own.
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Street View shows the adjacent building has been structurally complete for over 2 years. If its construction was in some way responsible, it doesn’t seem like whatever was done happened recently.
Also, the architect is Renzo Piano, who’s about as big a celebrity as architects get to be. He’s been doing world-famous buildings since the 70’s and has been awarded the Pritzker Prize (architectural equivalent of a Nobel). Not that any of that means anything or that he is likely to be even remotely responsible. Just dropping some random architecture nerd factoids.
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Condo was built in the early 80’s, too. Can’t imagine things were better back then.
Yeah, same. I was up late and saw an AP thing. Except for the size of the response, it didn’t sound like much.
Why do we have two different LC threads (both now with discussion of the building collapse in Miami)?
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Agree that we need a third LC thread with no condo chat.
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Seems like it was a building sold for the global elite to stash money in the US, but not vacant.
I’m in Miami teaching right now and everyone tells me it’s much busier than a normal summer because a bunch of people just moved down here permanently since FL was doing such a better job with (ignoring) covid than whatever awful northeast state they used to live in.
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This is supposed to be politics LC and the other non-politics LC, but that never really got entrenched.
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In theory (I think):
This thread - Low content, but can also contain short snippets of political stories that don’t really fit in the other threads
Sundry CC thread - Low content, but no politics
The idea being that people could come here if they didn’t want to deal with politics and were more interested in the sports/entertainment/walrus/etc parts of the forum, that there would be a LC forum for them.
I think there should be a collapsed building thread, because this shiz is cray.
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