An emergency meeting has been scheduled for Monday with the demolition contractor and ownership to discuss the unsafe manner in which this site had been conducting demolition activities. We immediately deployed Building Inspectors to the site, red-tagged the site and stopped all demolition activities. “The City of Miami’s Building Department is aware of the incident that took place this afternoon at a demolition site in the Brickell area. The City of Miami left the following comment on Only In Dade’s Instagram page after the incident occurred:
There have been no reported injuries,” Officer Kiara Delva, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department told Local 10 News in a statement Saturday evening.Īuthorities said Miami police officers temporarily blocked Brickell Avenue through South Miami Avenue. “We’ve recently been made aware of a construction incident at the location of 700 Brickell Avenue where debris fell onto a sidewalk at the location but have since been safely removed. According to City of Miami District 2 Commissioner Sabina Covo, there were no injuries reported and the area has since been cleaned up.
