Trump highrise condos in Florida among 35 buildings sinking into the ground at alarming rates

[jmbar2]

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Dozens of luxury beachfront condos and hotels in Surfside, Bal Harbour, Miami Beach and Sunny Isles are sinking into the ground at rates that were “unexpected,” with nearly 70 percent of the buildings in northern and central Sunny Isles affected, research by the University of Miami found.

The study, published Friday night, identified a total of 35 buildings that have sunk by as much as three inches between 2016 and 2023, including the iconic Surf Club Towers and Faena Hotel, the Porsche Design Tower, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Trump Tower III and Trump International Beach Resorts. Together, the high rises accommodate tens of thousands of residents and tourists. Some have more than 300 units, including penthouses that cost millions of dollars.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article296831519.html#storylink=cpy

[Judi Lynn]

1. He should get right over there and find out what's happening. Now!

After all, it was only a few years ago two enormous apartment buildings collapsed in the same area, killing people.

We all know how conscientious he is. No doubt he'll get right on it.

[jmbar2]

2. A lot of those condos were bought by Russians

Hope it sinks all the way to hell and takes them.

A Reuters review has found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida, according to public documents, interviews and corporate records.

The buyers include politically connected businessmen, such as a former executive in a Moscow-based state-run construction firm that works on military and intelligence facilities, the founder of a St. Petersburg investment bank and the co-founder of a conglomerate with interests in banking, property and electronics.

People from the second and third tiers of Russian power have invested in the Trump buildings as well. One recently posted a photo of himself with the leader of a Russian motorcycle gang that was sanctioned by the United States for its alleged role in Moscow’s seizure of Crimea.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

[sop]

3. A lot of his condo buildings are just licensing deals with Trump's name plastered on them.

[Mike 03]

4. Not surprising but fascinating

It begs the question of how one repairs a high rise building that is sinking, but not uniformly. Would people have to move out? Is it costlier to repair or condemn the building and write the whole thing off in taxes?

Cracks in walls, utilities that are breaking, or doors and windows that don’t shut as easily as they used to are all signs of differential subsidence, said Gangarao Hota, a professor of civil engineering and the director of the constructor facilities center at West Virginia University.

“In some extreme scenarios, the buildings at some point sink much more dramatically with time,” he said. If that subsidence is differential, “then it is very, very serious,” Hota said.

[DBoon]

5. Ozymandius

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- Written by Percey Bysshe Shelley in 1818 about a broken monument to the Pharoah Ramses II of Egypt.

[jmbar2]

7. Wow - that's deep

Thanks for posting.

[kimbutgar]

6. Excellent I hope it costs him a lot of money.

The orange monster denying global climate change when his own property is getting affected.

But I’m still waiting for a hurricane to destroy Mar a lago with him in it!

[jmbar2]

8. i want a drone attack

by aliens who will save us.

[kimbutgar]

9. I could get behind that also !

Have the aliens invite the magas to a new planet that is white Christian gun humping society and let them ooze in hate together on another planet, the magaloon planet.

[Omaha Steve]

10. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

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