Builder behind McGuire Apartments says there’s no need to demolish the block.
Just 24 hours after it was announced that the 9-year old McGuire Apartments in Belltown, Seattle were to face demolition due to structural faults and high repair costs, the builder behind the 25-storey high rise has claimed that demolition is not, in fact, necessary.
“Our experts … have conducted sophisticated, thorough testing of the building components at issue and determined that it is entirely safe,… ” a spokeswoman for McCarthy Building Companies of St. Louis said in an e-mail on Monday. “With reasonable remediation, maintenance and monitoring, long-term ongoing operations could continue.”
The owner and builder have been mired in litigation over the building’s construction for more than three years.
Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development said in a letter to Kennedy Friday that it had reviewed engineering reports on the McGuire’s structural problems and agreed the building is deteriorating and should be vacated.
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