MIAMI — Ever since the morning of June 24, 2021, when Champlain Towers South pancaked to the ground, surviving residents have claimed that damage caused by the driving of sheet piles into the ground at the construction site immediately to the south contributed to the degradation and eventual collapse of their building. The work had occurred five years earlier, but residents remembered it vividly as disrupting their lives.
This week, the developers behind the 18-story Eighty Seven Park tower will seek to defend themselves against those claims by performing testing on the northern property line bordering the Champlain South site, where 98 people died.
The condo association for the luxury tower initially balked at the request by developers, citing concerns over the duration of the testing (two weeks), and other issues. But attorneys for the condo developer and the owners’ board worked out a deal over the weekend before it escalated into a court fight.
