Every day seems to bring jarring news about the potential warning signs that led to the collapse.īut the question of the site's fate has already been broached in press conferences, at court hearings, in online petitions, and behind closed doors. Tina Paul, Surfside's vice mayor, says she recently facilitated a meeting between the survivors and a court-appointed receiver who's now in charge of financial decision-making for the condo. Some Surfside leaders and community members believe it's too soon to discuss what will become of the site. Rescuers are working around the clock, and human remains are still being pulled from the rubble. "I think for most of us, we don't want to have it be business as usual.and certainly discussions have begun how that could happen," the mayor said. And I want nothing to do with that property other than whatever is due to me."ĭuring a news briefing Thursday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said that stakeholders wanted to do "something different" to commemorate the lives lost. I would never step foot on that property ever again. I want the land sold, and I want my portion of it. "I don't care what it becomes," she says. Should the site be transformed into a tribute to victims of the collapse? Or will the property be sold and redeveloped, and a shiny new high-rise built?Īlvarez, for one, wants nothing to do with the decision. Less than three weeks after the collapse, questions already are arising about what might happen to the property at 8777 Collins Ave. With every rise of the death toll, the community grieves.
Some families have buried their loved ones, while others continue to wait for news. More than 60 people are still unaccounted for. Sixteen days after the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, first responders have recovered 78 bodies from the rubble. "I blocked her number, I have no idea who she was. "I got a call from a woman saying, 'I know you're not Jewish, but you're one of the chosen ones,'" Alvarez tells New Times. Alvarez now wishes she could run away from Surfside - the pile of rubble, the casualties, the internal monologue about why she survived when so many others perished. She ran down the fire escape, something she says she would not have been able to do if not for the help of other residents. When she made her way to a fire escape, she saw the moon, the stars, and the remains of her building below. She opened the door to her tenth-floor condominium at Champlain Towers South in the early hours of June 24, and the elevators were gone. The land was initially valued at somewhere between $100 million and $130 million, according to an earlier court proceeding.Susana Alvarez awoke to tremors that sounded like ceaseless thunderclaps. There has already been interest in the land at a range of $100 million to $110 million, though that could go higher, per the Herald. Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver, will oversee the sale as well the disbursements of insurance payments to the owners of the 136 units. Next door, condos at the newly developed Eighty Seven Park complex sell for an average of $5 million and, a block away, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushne r rented a unit at Arte, where units sell for upwards of $10 million. The site is located in a prized location along the Surfside boardwalk and on the iconic Collins Avenue. The 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building partially collapsed in late June, and the remaining portion was brought down in a controlled demolition in early July to assist with the search and rescue of victims in the rubble.
This case is going to move at rapid speed.” “This is going to be an extremely difficult case. “This is a case where there is no amount of money in the world that could account for the loss and suffering of these victims,” Hanzman said, per the Herald. Hanzman vetoed a suggestion to turn the site into a memorial, since that would not generate compensation for the victims.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, who is overseeing the legal cases related to the building’s collapse, said Wednesday that the sale should begin immediately, the Miami Herald reported. SEE ALSO: Competitive Socializing Proves a Boon for Retailers Post-Pandemic
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