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UPDATE: Fight then Fix vs Fix then Fight
🇺🇸 English | 🇪🇸 Español KEY TAKEAWAYS The Reality Residents Are Living Six Months. Two Elevators Down. Zero Resolution. This is no longer a delay — it’s a complete failure to act. Residents have been left dealing with unacceptable conditions for half a year. The Price Dropped. The Problem Didn’t. Costs were reduced dramatically, eliminating…
Mandarin Implosion – My Flashbacks
🇺🇸 English | 🇪🇸 Español Maybe it’s because I have lived on BK1 for 30 years. Maybe it is I am just getting older… The Mandarin hotel implosion left me sad. I look at the rubble pile and feel like it is the grave of a departed friend. About 26 years ago I watched several…
BK1 Condo Board Meeting – April 8, 2026
🇺🇸 English | 🇪🇸 Español Seismic Monitoring Decision Raises Questions on Timing, Transparency, and Alternatives The April 8, 2026 Board Meeting was primarily called to approve a vendor for seismic monitoring services ahead of the nearby Mandarin construction project, which is expected to continue through 2030. What should have been a straightforward decision instead raised…
The “Brickell Standard”
🇺🇸 English | 🇪🇸 Español Musical Elevators: The New Normal at Brickell Key One? It happened again this morning. Another “Out of Service” email and sign. We are now down to three working elevators for the entire building. The Board’s refusal to resolve the dispute with TKE or to at least repair then solve the…
3/25/26 Board Meeting Part 2
English Español As promised, this is the second half of the report on the meeting. Half Million Dollars Past Due When an owner asked about the half million dollars in past-due balances, Board President Olena Biletska responded: “The thing is, it’s not really such a problem because we saved a lot of money from last…