Surfside Mayor Says Officials Have ‘Deep Concerns’ About a Sister Building to the Collapsed Condo, Made by the Same Developer

‘We are going to do everything we can to look at those structural systems’

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BURKETT: "We are currently responding to inquiries for our large buildings in town regarding the collapse and advising them that they should do a full structural review of their systems. In addition, we are doing a deep dive with respect to the sister building you know called Champlain North, which is essentially the same building, built by the same developer, at the same time, with the same plans, probably with the same materials. And given we do not know why the first building fell down, we have significant concerns about that building and the residents in there. You know, from the very beginning, we worked to make sure that those residents had alternative housing if they wanted it, several of them have taken us up on that offer,  but right now we continue to work with the condominium board to make sure that — well, we can't make sure, but we're going to do everything we can to look at those structural systems, including ground-penetrating radar, the columns, the beams, the slabs, and try to get our arms around what may be happening, what did happen, and — like I said, we have some concerns about — not just some, but deep concerns about that building, especially given that we don't know what has happened there. But our engineer is actively working on it, as our town official is."      

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