Officials evacuate fourth Miami Beach apartment building after finding concrete deterioration

Lawrence Richard
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Another apartment building in Miami was evacuated by the city after concrete deterioration was found, an attorney representing the building owners announced on Monday.

The vacated complex, located at 6881 Indian Creek Dr., is at least the fourth housing facility to be evacuated after at least 94 people were killed last month in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside.

Attorney Manny Vadillo said the facility owners have been actively communicating with its residents regarding the evacuation order.

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"My clients are extremely sensitive to safety and, in fact, visited the property several times since last week to speak with tenants when communications started with the city to ensure tenants were not caught by surprise," Vadillo said. "Some tenants have been there many years."

The decision to order the evacuation comes after Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ordered an audit of buildings surrounding the collapsed Surfside apartment to gauge their structural integrity. The audit was announced in the days following the Surfside collapse and included any five-story or higher buildings that are at least 40 years old.

Earlier this month, the Crestview Towers Condominium building was similarly evacuated after the North Miami Beach Building and Zoning Department deemed the facility "structurally and electrically unsafe.”

“I can’t stress this enough: This is a very serious situation,” North Miami Beach City Manager Arthur Sorey III said at the time. “We understand this has been extremely difficult for the residents who have been displaced, but the City has a legal and moral obligation to ensure their home is safe.”

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The complex “did not comply with the recertification process. More importantly, they did not address the problems raised in the condo's original 40-year recertification dated Jan. 11," Sorey said at a press conference.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue also found 18 pending code violations for the Crestview building.

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