Lax Enforcement Let South Florida Towers Skirt Inspections for Years
The collapse of Champlain Towers South has prompted a review of hundreds of older high-rises. Some buildings ignored or delayed action on serious maintenance issues.
July 4, 2021
Out of the smoke and cinders of a city convulsed by race riots and an immigration crisis, the towers kept rising, each new development remaking Miami’s skyline in the early 1980s and marking an ambitious bet that the battered community would turn itself around.
Over the next 40 years, high-rises like Champlain Towers, in the sleepy, beachfront enclave of Surfside, stood witness to Miami’s remarkable rebound, luxurious, multistory symbols of endurance of booms and busts but also the harsh South Florida elements: scorching sun and driving rains, battering winds and slashing saltwater.
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Annabella s was a well-known Italian restaurant in Bristol Borough until the pandemic forced its shutdown.
Put them together and what have you got? A pearl of Italian cuisine inside the oyster that is Fishers a more than 60,000-square-foot eatery and entertainment complex at the busy intersection of Street and Hulmeville roads, just minutes from the entrances to both Interstate 95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
And while there aren t too many good news stories about the fate of restaurants during the pandemic, this collaboration just might take the cake.
George Pavlis, the owner of Fishers, heard last year that Robert and Alison Angelaccio were closing Annabella s in its leased location in Bristol. State-ordered shutdowns during the pandemic, combined with cancellations of the borough s signature festivals and shows at the nearby Bristol Riverside Theater, had dried up their business.