Months before a full-height section of a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, collapsed May 28, rendering the building dangerously unstable, a structural engineer advised owner Davenport Hotel LLC of an unexpected void, discovered during repairs to a damaged area of the perimeter brick wall. The building remains dangerously unstable, hampering efforts to search the debris for people still missing and feared dead.
The city has issued a public hazard notification to owner Davenport Hotel LLC and ordered “the immediate demolition of the structure.” Davenport Hotel LLC and its registered agent, Andrew Wold, could not immediately be reached for comment.