MIAMI (AP) — Residents of a Miami Beach building on the same street where a condominium collapsed, killing about a hundred more people were forced to evacuate Thursday night after the government decided the design was unsafe and ordered it to leave.
Miami Beach spokeswoman Melissa Berthier said around four o’clock Thursday afternoon that the city planned to publish a harmful design and order citizens of Port Royal’s four-story building to leave immediately. Around five o’clock in the afternoon, the condo board sent citizens a mandatory notice to leave 7 p. m. , the Miami Herald reported.
Port Royale citizens said Miami Beach city officials informed them Wednesday that construction would be evacuated, but the immediate exit notice wasn’t issued until Thursday, WPLG-TV reported.
A report from the building’s structural engineer triggered the evacuation of the 164-unit design at 6969 Collins Avenue, which is undergoing a 50-year recertification.
The construction of Champlain Towers South condominiums in Surfside, Florida, which collapsed in June 2021 and killed 98 people, is also located on Collins Avenue, about 2 kilometers from Port Royale.
The 12-story waterfront condo construction crisis in Surfside prompted the largest hurricane-free emergency reaction in Florida history, adding rescue groups from across the United States and as far away as Israel to local groups searching for victims.
Many members of the city’s Jews died in the collapse.
Engineers advised installing more “shoring” in spaces that need maintenance in the Port Royale garage to help a broken beam. Officials said they expected the foundation to be in place within 10 days, the Miami Herald reported.
The Times of Israel contributed to this report.
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