Crestview Towers condo in North Miami Beach evacuated due to unsafe conditions

[brooklynite]

Source: WSVI

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - The City of North Miami Beach has evacuated a condo building due to unsafe conditions.

The North Miami Beach Building Department ordered the evacuation of the Crestview Towers Condominium due to unsafe structural and electrical conditions.

The evacuation comes after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside and the subsequent push by South Florida municipalities ordering reviews of condominium high rise buildings.

The North Miami Beach Police Department is assisting the condo association with the safe and orderly evacuation of its residents. The City is also working with the American Red Cross to find temporary shelter for displaced residents who do not have somewhere else to stay.

So far, 20 people are confirmed to have died and 126 people are missing after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building.

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[msongs]

1. here's pic of the place (according to yahoo that is)

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[csziggy]

4. That's a screen shot from Google Street View!

The same cars are in the same parking spaces and the shadows are the same in both views - plus the sun glint off the car in the middle distance is identical. I wonder if Yahoo gave Google credit for the image? Yahoo cropped it slightly but it's the same image.

I'm looking at the view indicated as 2050 NE 165th St, North Miami Beach.

[peppertree]

6. Completed in 1970 (11 yrs. older than the ill-fated Champlain bldg.)

The units are much cheaper: around $130,000 - compared to $500,000 or more at Champlain.

So you can imagine how well this one's been maintained.

[durablend]

2. Gonna be more....

[bullimiami]

3. lived in an apt right across the canal like 35+ years ago. crazy.

i guess zoning has let a lot of questionable older buildings skate by with warnings and you shoulds.
How is any condo is going to have the money to rebuild these.
Not at 80-100K per unit.

Could be disastrous.

[Mickju]

5. How hideous for the people living there!

[PoliticAverse]

7. "A report by an engineer dated Jan. 11, turned into the city Friday afternoon".

[patphil]

8. Sounds like the report was going to be buried until the building collapse made it real.

Over 5 1/2 months from when the report was created to when it was delivered, and on a Friday afternoon of a holiday weekend to boot.
I'd say the engineering firm didn't want to take the hit for burying the report if the building failed, but wanted to issue it at a time when it would get minimum coverage in the news.