DELRAY BEACH For the past year, Losmin Cheroy says he has been living in fear of a catastrophic collapse in the 2355 building at the Linton Ridge complex in Delray Beach.
Cheroy and his wife Lenes are on the first floor of a building so unsafe that its own code enforcement officers feared for their safety when they recently inspected it. We re very scared, Cheroy said. It s not a good situation for us.
Pictures presented at a recent hearing showed the second-floor concrete walkway separating, or pulling away from the building at various points. Twenty-eight car-jack-type “jack stands” have been placed throughout the structure to prop up the second floor. One of them blocks a door from completely opening, causing a fire-code issue.