It looked eerily like a controlled demolition.... Are they now backtracking the story with reports of the ground and building 'sinking' since the 90's or was it really sinking and everyone kept their mouths shut?? I vote for controlled demolition...

Also, it was being re-roofed.. Is that when they planted things??

Lynda

Researcher: High-rise that collapsed was sinking, due for recertification
40-year-old building was being re-roofed

Work to re-roof the building began in April and was ongoing.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2021/06/24/researcher-high-rise-that-collapsed-had-been-sinking-at-alarming-rate/

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FIU professor found sinking land at Surfside collapse site in 1990s

SURFSIDE, Fla. – While Thursday’s tragic condo collapse in Surfside was unexpected, a professor at Florida International University found signs of that land gradually sinking in a study published last year.

“The 2020 study conducted by FIU Institute of Environment Professor Shimon Wdowinski identified the 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium as the one place on the east side of the barrier island where land subsidence was detected from 1993 to 1999,” FIU said in a post on its website. “But land subsidence in and of itself likely would not cause a building’s collapse, according to Wdowinski, an expert in space geodesy, natural hazards and sea level rise.”

Subsidence is defined as the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land. Wdowinski found that in the ’90s, Miami Beach experienced that sinking at the rate of 1-3 millimeters per year.

more:
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/06/24/fiu-professor-found-sinking-land-at-surfside-collapse-site-in-1990s/