“The developers of the Miami condo tower that collapsed were once accused of paying off local officials to get permits for the site — which needed $15 million in repairs just to bring it to code, a new report says.”
The developers paid off officials to get permits to build on a site that needed $15 million in repairs before the condos were built?
Wow those are some repairs, unbelievable or terrible writing but then it’s the Bezo Post.
Because of a horribly written article...I believe you mis-construed the issue.
The developers bribed city officials over sewer issues at the property, to get construction started. Those sewer issues stalled other developments.
The 15 million in repairs were in reference to what structural engineers determined were needed in 2018 to get the building back up to the 40 year code review. This has nothing to do with the developers bribing city official back in 1981.
The owners (condo owners board members) are the ones that drug their feet on doing the needed repairs identified in 2018. No one who owned a condo wanted to cough up the 100,000 to 300,000 needed from each condo owner to afford the repair costs.