Two years after the tragic collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building, the victims will be honored at the annual Surfside Remembrance event on Saturday.
The public ceremony will take place on the front lawn where the condo partially collapsed, in Veterans Park, at 8750 Collins Avenue.
A temporary display containing items from the Wall of Hope memorial will be placed on the tennis courts behind the lawn. The exhibit will set up at 9 a.m., weather permitting, but the event will start at 10 a.m.
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There will also be a torch lighting ceremony at 1:22 a.m., the time the building collapsed two years earlier.
The collapse of June 24, 2021 left 98 dead.
The cause is still under investigation, but an assessment of the building revealed poor construction and corrosion as worrying factors three years before the collapse.
