Seattle high-rise declared unsafe; hundreds uprooted

[rsmith6621]

SEATTLE - A nine-year-old high-rise near downtown Seattle with hundreds of residents and dozens of retailers will soon be nothing but a hole in the city's skyline.

The 25-floor McGuire Apartment building at Second Avenue and Wall Street - built in 2001 - already has to come down because it is considered unsafe for occupancy.

The building's occupants were told in last-minute meetings on Saturday that the building will have to be torn down - and the residents need to be out as soon as possible.

KOMO News has learned that the issue involves cables, concrete and corrosion that have become so costly to repair that it would be cheaper for the owner to tear down the building than to fix it.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/90554479.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Indeed fortunate

that the issues were discovered before something really awful happened.

[Hannah Bell]

2. sounds like there's quite a backstory.

http://hideousbelltown.blogspot.com/2009/11/mcguire-scaffold-watch-week-29.html

[keep_it_real]

3. Will the company that owes the building sue the construction company?

And can the tenants sue the building owner?

[TheMadMonk]

4. The whole chain is bankrupt. All the way to the docks. nt