Three people are still missing and feared dead after a portion of a six-story, 116-year-old apartment building in Davenport, Iowa collapsed Sunday evening.
An apartment building that partially collapsed on Sunday afternoon can be seen Tuesday, May 30, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.
“If they told me I could, I’ll run in there right now,” he told CNN. “I haven’t slept. I’ve been out here for three days, at night, all night, waiting for anything.”City permit records indicate inspectors were aware of a brick facade that separated from the interior wall, and appeared “ready to fall imminently.”
Andrew Wold is the owner of the building. His company, Davenport Hotel L.L.C., said in a statement, “Our thoughts and prayers are with our tenants.” He’ll be required to pay for the cost of demolition, and is being fined by the city for failing to maintain the structure in a safe manner. Aaron Sokolow is an attorney at Washington, D.C.-based firm Battino & Sokolow PLLC, which handles civil litigation and landlord/tenant matters. He said he hasn’t dealt with a full building collapse, but partial collapses that render a building inhabitable “actually aren’t that uncommon.”
Other routes tenants can take in D.C. include filing a claim in housing conditions court or filing for damages under the Consumer Protection Procedures Act.
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