The project included "the repair and/or replacement of defective portions of the existing construction."Įngineers familiar with the project told NBC 6 not to read too much into that language - that is is fairly standard for a oceanfront condo restoration project.Īlso included in the scope of work: structural repairs to the garage, where concrete was spalling on existing columns and cracks had formed, according to the project bid form.Īgain, it's not unusual, engineers say, for a building of this age and location, exposed to the salty, windy, sandy elements of the oceanfront. They gathered on the morning of June 15 on site for a pre-bid conference and had three more weeks to submit their bids, due July 7. Just nine days before the condo collapsed in the Town of Surfside, the condominium association's engineer summoned five general contractors seeking to bid on the major structural repair project. Sign up for NBC South Florida newsletters. "After such a horrific tragedy, the only right thing to do for the honor of those who no longer have a voice is to respect them with a memorial on the site where they died, not one inch away," he said.Get South Florida local news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.
Langesfeld, who has launched a petition calling for a memorial, hit out at local and state politicians for not doing enough to honor those who lost their lives. The property will be put up for auction next year to see if other interested buyers may be willing to pay more.
However, a proposed $120 million sales contract made no mention of a memorial at the site. Florida Advised to Pass Law for High-Rise Inspections After Condo CollapseĪ plan to possibly sell the almost two-acre site to a UAE-based developer was approved earlier this year, with any sale of the site to benefit victims that survived the disaster.Federal Probe Into Surfside Collapse in Early Stages, May Take Over 2 Years.Surfside Condo Collapse Occurred Due to Next-Door Construction: Lawsuit.It also has an affiliated office in Madrid and Buenos Aires, according to its website. It remains an active company with a current principal place of business listed as Miami, according to a Florida Limited Liability Company annual report filed in April 2021. HQ Realty has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
to have to think about the fact that there's something out there that says there are units available." "That's very disturbing, especially for family members who lost loved ones. "First of all, get all those apartments off, they're gone," Iken-Murphy, who advocated for the 9/11 memorial after losing her husband in the 2001 terror attacks, told Newsweek. Monica Iken-Murphy, who is campaigning alongside Langesfeld and other families of the victims for a memorial on the site the building stood, called the online listings "disturbing." He lost his sister Nicole Langesfeld and her husband, Luis Sadovonic, who had moved into an apartment on the eighth floor of the tower just a few months before the collapse. An ocean-facing unit costing $915,000 was also listed for sale on HQ Realty's website.
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