Surfside Condo Collapse

Town commissioners voted 3 to 2 in favor of conditionally requiring the developer of the former Champlain Towers South property to move the loading dock away from the memorial space.

Plans to include garbage collection and a loading dock on the same street as a proposed memorial site for the 98 people killed in the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building have angered and outraged relatives of some of the victims, along with elected town officials.

Two years ago, 98 people died with the Champlain Towers South condo building partially collapsed. Federal investigators have been looking into the flaws in the building's pool deck.

DAMAC International responds to statements made in a July 25 special meeting in Surfside to discuss a memorial on the former Champlain Towers South property.

Tensions have boiled over in Surfside after the town's mayor Shlomo Danzinger proposed a plan for a memorial that critics say benefits a new building's developer.

The town of Surfside held events to remember the victims, beginning Saturday at 1:22 a.m., the exact time the disaster began to unfold.

Investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology will begin testing concrete cores and reinforcing steel in a search for answers from the Champlain Towers South condo collapse.

A Florida Senate committee backed a proposal that would make changes to Florida's condominium-safety laws.

The Florida Building Commission says there is no reason they see to treat coastal and inland buildings differently. That was a key idea behind the post-Surfside law that passed in 2022.

In the last South Florida Roundup of 2022, we spoke to WLRN reporters about the most topical issues of the year and how we can expect to see them play out in the new year: education and news in Broward; affordable housing and Miami-Dade's push for demolitions (19:29); more fallout from the Surfside disaster (38:12).

Aging buildings across the city are increasingly being given demolition orders, a WLRN investigation finds. Among these are some of the last bastions of affordable housing. Some compare the new demolition policy to a totalitarian government — while others also point out the city's coffers could stand to benefit from it.

Residents of the 14-story building were forced to evacuate Thursday evening after officials determined the structure was unsafe and gave orders to leave.