A Cambridge condominium, where units are selling for more than $1 million, will be vacated for at least a year to address structural problems within the nearly 60-year-old building, according to multiple media reports. .
The Riverview Condominiums on Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge will be vacant for at least the next year after engineers discovered several problems with the reinforced concrete used to construct the building in the early 1960s, WCVB-TV reported. Quoted by Jeremy Wernick. City spokesperson.
Wernick did not respond to a request for comment sent Friday morning.
Residents of the condominium have agreed to move out starting Monday and will continue to do so over the next four weeks, The Boston Globe reported.
“The Riverview Condominium Board of Directors, in consultation with the project team, has decided to begin an orderly evacuation of the building in order to maximize the safety of residents and facilitate an efficient repair process. “We have made the decision,” said Candice Morse, president of property management. said the company overseeing the building in a statement provided to the Globe.
The building’s structural issues became apparent after a recent roof construction project. The Globe reported that while repairing the roof, construction workers discovered that “substandard concrete” had been used to construct the building and that rebar had been poured into it.
“These potential deficiencies have not been known for approximately 60 years,” property management company Thayer & Associates said in a statement. “Until recently, no one had any reason to suspect an error occurred in the original structure.”
As winter approaches, there are concerns that snow will worsen building problems, NBC10 Boston reported.
Wernick, the city spokesperson, told WCVB the building remains habitable.
