Long Beach : 2 Condos Given Structural OK After Reinforcing Work
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Two west Long Beach condominium complexes have been given clean bills of health after a year-and-a-half-long collaboration between their homeowner associations and the city to correct major structural flaws resulting from errors in design.
Residents of Oceangate Square, 720 W. 4th St., and Goldengate Square, 730 W. 4th St., were ordered to make the corrections or vacate the buildings in 1989 after city inspectors noticed the structures literally sagging in their middles because of insufficient support from beams designed to reinforce them from underground parking garages.
To pay for the repairs, condo owners assessed themselves $1.5 million last May and entered into an agreement with the city to create a special assessment bond district providing 15-year financing.
The repair project, which started in July, consisted of placing additional steel columns and reinforcing beams in the subterranean parking garages to strengthen the foundations of the four-story buildings.
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