Nearly a block from the Miami-Dade 12-story oceanfront building that collapsed stands its sister tower, built twelve months later by the same firm, using the similar design and same materials. It has also faced the same salty air and tides.

That has made some residents of Champlain Towers North worried enough to leave, saying they’re confident their forty-year-old, twelve-story structure is better maintained.

Residents of the building said that their tower does not have the same issues with cracking in support beams and also in the pool place that ‘engineering reports 2018’ depicted the South tower had.

The downfall of Champlain Tower South on Thursday accentuated to older tall buildings all over South Florida and prompted Daniella Levine Cava, Miami-Dade Mayor, to direct a thirty-day audit of whether such “structures under Levine’s Cava’s jurisdiction are complying with a needed re-certification of ‘structural integrity and failure’ at forty years.

The mayor said that she desires any problems raised by surveys to be addressed immediately. Moreover, she urged municipalities to follow suit. For example, Miami has ordered a forty-five-day audit of towers that are 6-story and higher and forty years old.

Furthermore, inspectors performed a quick-hit inspection of the North building. Charles Burkett, Surfside Mayor, said that nothing was observed that signals the tower are in danger of downfall.

A snowbird who bought a 6th-floor condo in the North tower some 4-years ago with her husband, Rebecca Weinstock, said she is petrified of returning, as she was in New York, when Florida Condo collapsed Thursday, leaving eleven people dead and more than 150 missing.

While Weinstock agrees the North Tower is well maintained, she said that isn’t enough to persuade her that North Tower is entirely safe. Champlain Tower North was built in 1982, only one year after the Champlain Tower South (completed in 1981), and built by the same company (Nattel Construction) and by the same developer, Nathan Reiber. So, the probability that the downfall was happened by a construction flaw means she would not be returning anytime.

The snowbird said that she is out her investment, out her apartment, out her future, but they’re talking about lives there. She said the only way she would return is if two independent engineers from outside South Florida agree ‘it is safe.’

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