Posted on 06/30/2021 2:00:22 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Rosendo “Ross” Prieto, who previously served as a municipal official in Florida and once told Champlain Towers South board members that their building was in “very good shape,” has left his new job.
A Doral spokesman confirmed Prieto is presently on a leave of absence from a contracting business position that offers services to the city. Prieto assured Champlain Towers South board members in 2018 that their property was solid, a claim which followed an engineering company’s warning that it possessed structural deficiencies. The firm said sizeable repairs were needed to fix the building’s various issues.
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I don’t anything about construction but I maybe wrong here. If the pool was leaking why is the pool still filled with water up to the very top?, and it looks untouch. Looks like the little Hot Tub, near the pool, fell down into the next level. The rubble looks like it collapse but it does not look like it pancaked into the bottom level. Also what is weird you can see men wearing their Hard Hat sitting down under the large umbrellas on the far right.
Because the passenger effectively cut off the heads of his ex-wife and a waiter, and LA isn’t too far from Mexico
don’t forget the realtors.
on a related note, did Prieto put his statement in writing as an official that was inspecting the building? I haven’t read all the details so, just asking...
The pool may be like mine, only leaks when the pump is circulating the water through pipes to the salinization gizmo and the filter.
I look forward to people’s reaction when it is learned that the pool was leaking water and created a sink hole, when the sink hole swallowed the pool the building was right behind it by a few minutes.
Maybe the 37 year old middle aged building was in very good shape in 2018.
Until someone explains how 12 floors of a concrete deck building suddenly pancaked, this conversation is just idle gossip to soften up future jurors.
If he’s smart he leaves for a country with no extradition treaty.
Coincidentally, I had lunch today with a golf buddy who’s a lawyer that practices in commercial real estate. He talked at length about the FL ‘statute of repose.’ The contractor lobby in FL is very strong, apparently. This protective statute - which I thought he said was 10-years - is equally strong. Apparently, there are some exceptions that could theoretically extend that 10-year number perhaps a few years. But 30-years (or more) like it is here? No way.
Unless the plaintiff’s lawyers can find a way to rope the city/county into some liability exposure, there are no deep pockets to mine here. As you say, the insurance coverage is going to be limited and fixed and the association doesn’t have any assets to speak of. The big payday some may be hoping for is likely never going to come...except for the lawyers, who always find a way to get paid.
I am hearing this claim for the first time.
Source?
I keep repeating myself, but...
The only way a concrete deck building can pancake is if all the primary support columns fail at the same moment.
As of yesterday, there were ZERO support columns visible above the rubble pile, which is (was) only 25-30 feet high
What happened to the 90 feet of concrete support columns that used to be above the second and third floor?
Until proven otherwise - all of the columns anchored in the basement had to collapse at the same moment.
Normal columns have to be loaded “in the kern”, i.e, plumb to the Earth, and carry compression loads. Once the pilings, pile caps, or the structural elements on the lower levels fail, everything above comes apart like a house of cards. My guess is that the remans of the former columns are on their sides, sandwiched between the slabs.
The land will be sold .
The only asset left .
I understand what he did, but that many police cars? They wouldn’t have needed that many to stop him.
If he would have taken off, it seems like they would have just gotten in each others way.
He probably got a job at the Fed. :)
Here are a few references:
He will get a cushy job with the Biden administration. Let’s see Jen Sacki spin this one.
This is better one with Ileana:
https://nypost.com/2021/06/26/florida-survivor-recalls-escape-from-collapsing-condo/
Here is the story from Sara Nir:
Here is a wife who called her husband freaking out over the ongoing noises and the pool:
Local Miami station interviewed a woman who got out and the only reason she got out was because a giant crack formed in her living room. She’s an older lady, yet she still had time to exit the building. I didn’t catch what floor she lived on, not even sure they said.
The video certainly makes it appear it was an instantaneous collapse. And, the catastrophic failure likely was. But, there were apparently some significant signs of impeding doom for some short period of time before it all came down, including noises.
I wonder what the net value of the property will be after cleanup expenses are deducted. And, while it appears structural failure was the primary cause, there’s still an engineering report from earlier that indicated the land may have been shifting.
There’s a chance they won’t be able to build on that land again...making the property FAR less valuable. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Never rent to lawyers or law students.
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