"We'd all like to move on a little bit," he says. Everything has changed, and it prevents him from forgetting why.
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He watches unfamiliar vehicles zip through his neighborhood at alarming speeds, and he spends twice as much time getting anywhere owing to the traffic closures. The Surfside he knows has friendly neighbors, manageable traffic, and peace and quiet. But today, he hears police sirens blaring day and night. Lorin Jacobson, who has lived in Surfside for 15 years with his wife and two kids, says that would mean the end of his town as he knows it. Some residents worry that a fixed memorial would permanently equate Surfside - once a sleepy beach town - to the tragedy. Photo by Natalia Galicza Not everyone agrees. I would hope the only solution here is to make it a memorial park."Īs confirmation of what the community would like to see, Salzhauer points to an online petition that has garnered more than 1,000 signatures calling for a memorial. "It would be like living on an Indian burial ground. "I would like to think there isn't a developer on earth who would want to," she says. Surfside Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer says she doesn't believe it's appropriate for the site to be rebuilt. I think the first thing we're going to do is focus on pulling everybody out of that rubble and supporting the families." "I'm going to be talking to them and asking them over the next several months. "I'd like to know what the families want to see there," he says. Paul believes the town does need some sort of memorial, but she says it's a decision that should be left for a later time. During that meeting, the receiver raised the possibility of selling the property. Every day seems to bring jarring news about the potential warning signs that led to the collapse.īut the question of the site's fate has already been broached in press conferences, at court hearings, in online petitions, and behind closed doors. Tina Paul, Surfside's vice mayor, says she recently facilitated a meeting between the survivors and a court-appointed receiver who's now in charge of financial decision-making for the condo. Some Surfside leaders and community members believe it's too soon to discuss what will become of the site. Rescuers are working around the clock, and human remains are still being pulled from the rubble. "I think for most of us, we don't want to have it be business as usual.and certainly discussions have begun how that could happen," the mayor said. And I want nothing to do with that property other than whatever is due to me."ĭuring a news briefing Thursday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said that stakeholders wanted to do "something different" to commemorate the lives lost. I would never step foot on that property ever again.
I want the land sold, and I want my portion of it. "I don't care what it becomes," she says. Should the site be transformed into a tribute to victims of the collapse? Or will the property be sold and redeveloped, and a shiny new high-rise built?Īlvarez, for one, wants nothing to do with the decision. Less than three weeks after the collapse, questions already are arising about what might happen to the property at 8777 Collins Ave. With every rise of the death toll, the community grieves. Some families have buried their loved ones, while others continue to wait for news. More than 60 people are still unaccounted for. Sixteen days after the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, first responders have recovered 78 bodies from the rubble. "I blocked her number, I have no idea who she was. "I got a call from a woman saying, 'I know you're not Jewish, but you're one of the chosen ones,'" Alvarez tells New Times. Alvarez now wishes she could run away from Surfside - the pile of rubble, the casualties, the internal monologue about why she survived when so many others perished. She ran down the fire escape, something she says she would not have been able to do if not for the help of other residents. When she made her way to a fire escape, she saw the moon, the stars, and the remains of her building below. She opened the door to her tenth-floor condominium at Champlain Towers South in the early hours of June 24, and the elevators were gone.
Susana Alvarez awoke to tremors that sounded like ceaseless thunderclaps.
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