Developers and city officials are pushing back on family members’ expectations for a memorial for 98 people who died last year when a beachfront Florida condominium building collapsed.
FILE - A giant tarp, bottom, covers a section of rubble where search and rescue personnel have been working at the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., on July 4, 2021. Lawyers who secured a $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse last year of the beachfront Florida condominium building were awarded more than $70 million in fees Monday, Aug. 29, 2022 by a judge.
“We all would have loved to build something, a park or something," Danzinger said of the site."But by order of the judge, it was sold. It’s now private property.” Danzinger suggested working with the town to adjust some easements to accommodate a memorial near the edge of the lot.