The City of Surfside is an unlikely candidate when it comes to lack of vigilance or enforcement by the city, county or state authorities, primarily because of Surfside’s size, density and relative wealth. ![]() The Champlain towers are also not decrepit forty-year-old buildings these are staple, luxury properties, very well maintained that marked a new era in luxury condo construction in South Florida. This severe structural failure causing a building to pancake to the ground, similar to a professionally executed controlled blast, has never happened before in this country. But, unlike September 11th, after weeks of search and rescue efforts, an unwavering commitment by the world’s leading disaster response teams and implementation of immense resources, machinery and technology, we are still clueless in determining how this could have ever happened. As someone who grew up in coastal Miami-Dade since the mid-seventies, this news reawakened feelings of sadness not experienced since September 11th and a certain deja-vu. On Thursday, June 24th, the Champlain Condo Tower South, in the small beach community of Surfside Florida, had collapsed. Why have some of our small beach communities and charming coastal cities deviated so aggressively from previous long term ambitions? In order to understand the motivation behind the high-rise, high density and high-priced displays of modern architecture, one must examine previous CDMPs, or Comprehensive Development Master Plans. The South Florida market is unique, desirable and increasingly expensive.
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