A county-mandated engineering study found the 48-year-old Marina City Club needs significant repairs, but doesn’t have the problems that led to the Champlain Towers collapse in Florida.
, although its maintenance reserves were severely underfunded.
The damage to the waterfront Marina condos appeared eerily similar to reports of crumbling concrete and parking garage flooding that preceded the June 24 tragedy in Surfside, Fla. Engineers hired by the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald concluded design flaws, combined with years of neglect, caused a steady erosion of the Champlain Towers infrastructure. Some columns at the base of the building were undersized and lacked reinforcement bar, while parts of the building lacked adequate shear walls to provide stability, the newspapers reported.
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