PEMBROKE PINES – Two
buildings inside a Pembroke Pines condo complex were deemed
unsafe, and the clock is ticking for residents to evacuate.
The buildings were
found with a number of serious problems, making them unsafe
to live in.
The unsafe structure notices were posted earlier this month.
This weekend, the deadline hit for residents to pack up and
move out.
Airgna Fragoso was there helping her daughter relocate from
building No. 10 -- one of two buildings inside the Heron
Pond condo community where city officials have prohibited
occupancy over safety concerns.
Throughout the development, the facade is crumbling and/or
missing in some areas, and support beams have been
positioned on patios to help keep the ceilings from caving
in.
There are so many structural issues throughout the complex
that engineers have flagged multiple problems, but deemed
buildings No. 3 and No. 10 as unsafe. |
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Local 10 News first
reported on the story earlier this month when residents were
given just a 10 day notice to vacate.
“I just noticed this thing on the wall and I noticed that we
have to be out in 10 days,” resident Allan Rodriguez said at
the time.
Tenants have been scrambling to move ever since.
The city of Pembroke Pines said it’s given plenty of time to
the complex’s operators to fix the issues, but there’s been
no change.
Property manager Laura Serrano told Local 10 News they’ve
been working for the past six months to correct the
problems.
Still, even as recently as Sunday, the problems remained
significant enough for residents to have no other choice but
be forced out.