Look for water damage. Consumers should look for stains, mildew, rust, and discoloration, as well as dirt or debris under the floor mats and carpet to determine signs of water damage, according to the TDI. Also, flooded cars often have mold or mildew, and give off a musty odor. But be careful: Even if you don’t notice the smell of mildew, beware of a strong smell of cleaner or disinfectant, as it could be an attempt to cover up those odors.
The Florida Department of Corrections paid roughly $1.5 million over the last five years to settle a lease for the historic Hygeia Coca-Cola bottling plant on North Palafox Street, which it never used.
The department signed a seven-year lease in November 2013 for the building at 1625 N. Palafox St. with the intention of using it as a parole and probation office. The lease outlined a payment schedule of $22,997.83 per month, with a year’s rent totaling $275,974, beginning April 1, 2014, and wrapping up March 31, 2021.
The department abandoned the idea of moving into the plant after North Hill neighbors protested the use, but the lease had already been signed. Opponents cited neighborhood safety concerns with the office projected to serve 3,200 individuals each month, with 212 of those being violent or sex offenders.
On March 21, 2014, department staff notified building owner Nathan Lee Head that they would not take possession of the building. Instead, the department has a probation office at 9211 North Davis Highway to serve this area.
The department entered into a settlement agreement in October 2014 with Head, according to documents requested from the department by the News Journal. The lease was terminated «upon successful fulfillment of the settlement agreement,» said Rob Klepper, the department’s deputy communications director in an email statement.
The settlement agreement showed the department agreed to pay Head a lump sum of $115,183.76 and another $1,382,186.40 with 5% interest over 60 months. That equals a monthly payment of $26,083.56 over five years.
The settlement agreement is roughly the same amount as what Head said in the original lease that he paid in improvements to the building to prepare for the department’s rental.
The Coca-Cola plant was most recently in the news when nonprofit Keep Pensacola Beautiful undertook a capital campaign with the hopes of purchasing the building. But a facility assessment showed water damage and mold cleanup estimates were $8 million and proved too costly for the organization.
«We’re afraid we’re going to lose this building and after all that money the state paid for renovations, the building shouldn’t be in such a condition today that it’s unsalvageable,» said Melanie Nichols, president of the North Hill Preservation Association. «I hope that someone will be able to save it.»
Keep Pensacola Beautiful, which undergoes efforts to clean and beautify the city, hoped to invest $5 million in the building over five years to renovate the 1936 building. Plans called for event space, learning garden, classrooms and a nonprofit incubator.
«It’s an empty building,» Head said. «I had some plans for it. This other group came along. They wanted some nonprofit in there. I said that I would work with them on it. That didn’t work out, so I really don’t have any plans for it now.»
Head said he was unsure of whether he was looking for buyers for the property.
«I really don’t know. I haven’t made up my mind yet,» Head said. «There’s no story here. It’s just an empty building. That’s all it is.»
Madison Arnold can be reached at marnold@pnj.com and 850-435-8522.
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Most students could only dream of being put-up in the Carolina Inn for a couple of nights. But, when it comes at the cost of mold-related illness and lost sleep, it may not be as glamorous as it sounds.
Last week, The Daily Tar Heel reported that Granville Towers is temporarily relocating its residents as it deals with mold in its heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. The property is placing groups of students in local hotels for 48 hours each on a rolling basis while it treats their suites.
The mold uncovered in Granville Towers has all types of icky names like aspergillus/penicillium, cladosporium, fusarium, chaetomium, stachybotrys, trichoderma and ulocladium mold species. The symptoms of prolonged exposure to this mold are similarly icky: eye irritation, nasal stuffiness, chronic coughing and sneezing, wheezing, rashes, fatigue and persistent headaches.
Though Granville’s efforts are better late than never, the way the property is handling the issue is disrupting to students in the midst of midterm season.
Two significant disruptions arise from Granville’s relocation plan. The first is the time lost spent packing for an unplanned two-night trip, which eats into students’ time for studying and extracurricular activities. The second is the troubled sleep that research shows people experience in hotel rooms (a phenomenon deemed the “first-night effect”).
source https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/10/granville-mold-edit-1020
The owner of the Aristocrat Manor Apartments pleaded no contest earlier this week in Garland County District Court to 34 violations of the city’s property maintenance code, the latest development in a series of enforcement actions the city and federal regulators have taken against the downtown property that provides subsidized housing to elderly and disabled tenants.
Deputy City Attorney Terry Askew said the court levied a $1,700 fine, or $50 per violation, against owner Marshall Coffman. Many of the violations overlapped with deficiencies inspectors from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development identified in January and May. HUD notified Coffman in April that he was in violation of the 2000 agreement entitling the property to Housing Assistance Payments as part of its participation in the Section 8 program.
According to rent rolls The Sentinel-Record obtained through public records requests, Coffman’s company receives more than $60,000 a month in HAP subsidies for a property a May report from HUD said wasn’t meeting the agency’s minimum standards for Section 8 housing.
«The condition occurred because an effective corrective and preventive maintenance program has not been implemented at the property,» the May 31 Management and Occupancy Report provided in response to a records request said. «The effect is the property not meeting HUD’s definition of decent, safe and sanitary condition, and poor curb appeal/general appearance of the property.»
Issues listed in the report included water damage, mold/mildew in laundry rooms, water puddles that created «a mold/mildew-like slippery slime» in common areas, rotted exterior wood frames bordering common areas, chipped and cracked exterior stucco and «general dirt and grime» on the corners and back of the building.
The Aristocrat is a project-based Section 8 property where tenants pay up to 30% of their incomes toward rent and HUD subsidies pay the balance. According to the most recent rent data the newspaper obtained, the property charges $886 to $916 a month, utilities included, for the 440 square foot efficiency apartments. The building has about 100 units.
The rates are significantly higher than fair market rent HUD established for Garland County, but HUD has said the 2000 agreement exempts the property from fair market standards. The agreement expires at the end of January. That’s also the deadline HUD gave Coffman to remedy maintenance issues or make way for third party management.
In addition to owning the property, Coffman’s company also manages it, according to correspondence obtained from a records request. HUD had set a June 22 deadline but extended it in August, explaining that the Aristocrat’s cooperation and the repairs it had made warranted a grace period. HUD said it will decide in February if a third party needs to assume management.
Correspondence between the Aristocrat and HUD showed HUD has required updates every two weeks on the status of repairs and financing the property is attempting to secure for a renovation.
Coffman representatives have told HUD financing is contingent on HUD renewing the HAP contract that expires at the end of April. They have asked for the renewal to be fast-tracked, explaining that it would expedite approval of a loan. An email from Lay Commercial Mortgage Co. in Little Rock forwarded to HUD said the property is eligible for up to a $5.4 million loan, which would be contingent on renewal of the HAP agreement.
HUD said Friday that it intends to renew the agreement, and that it won’t condition renewal on the Aristocrat obtaining financing for renovations.
Arvest Bank holds a $2.75 million mortgage on the property, according to property records, debt a Coffman representative has said is partially serviced by HUD subsidies.
The city granted the property a permit in August for an $89,818 roof replacement. Askew confirmed the roof has been replaced.
«They were satisfied they addressed the violations they were charged with,» she said of city inspectors who cited the property in May after violations identified during an April inspection had gone uncorrected.
A July 10 letter ownership sent HUD blamed roof problems on a toilet that had been thrown out of an adjacent building. The letter said the toilet landed on the roof and damaged it, leading to 15 of the 34 code violations.
Infestation was among the violations. The city has received numerous complaints about bedbugs at the Aristocrat in recent years, including its transportation services department complaining in November 2017 about Aristocrat residents carrying bedbugs onto city buses.
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source https://www.hotsr.com/news/2019/oct/19/aristocrat-moving-closer-to-compliance-/
Look for water damage. Consumers should look for stains, mildew, rust, and discoloration, as well as dirt or debris under the floor mats and carpet to determine signs of water damage, according to the TDI. Also, flooded cars often have mold or mildew, and give off a musty odor. But be careful: Even if you don’t notice the smell of mildew, beware of a strong smell of cleaner or disinfectant, as it could be an attempt to cover up those odors.
In addition, the company is a leading worldwide supplier of metal, composite, and plastic vacuum closures for food and beverage products. With more than 22 production plants, Silgan Plastics is one of the top 10 blow molders in North America, providing stock and custom packaging for many of the top consumer goods manufacturers.
Silgan Plastic’s Toronto-based manufacturing plant is home to three types of molding systems: injection molding, injection blow molding, and injection stretch/blow molding. The plant produces a variety of plastic containers, lids, and caps, many using PET preform molds with 72 individual cavities. Because Silgan runs a lot of PET and Pharmaceutical products, the company has developed a preventive maintenance routine that meets customers’ product quality needs.
At the center of the routine is a software program that generates a work order based upon cycles for each mold. The cleaning cycles are set-up with each customer to ensure that their molds are well maintained and in good working condition. This effort has become a standard for all Silgan molds and customers’ molds. With the 72-cavity molds, products are made in 10 second cycles. After every 15,000 cycles, the maintenance crew used to clean the hot molds by hand in the presses using chemical and citrus cleaners, degreasers, wire brushes, drills and pipe cleaners. Given the large number of cavities, each mold would take two to three hours to clean by hand. After every 60,000 cycles, the molds were removed from the presses and given a more thorough cleaning. Despite the amount of time spent maintaining the molds, it was difficult to get them completely clean.
“When you clean a 72-cavity mold by hand, not only is it time consuming, it is difficult to get behind every slide and neck ring,” says Joe Pond, Setup Supervisor for Silgan Plastics. “In addition, the coatings and plastics that we use tend to get on other parts of the equipment, which also adds to the challenge.”
After attending a Husky Injection Molding Systems seminar, Pond asked Husky representatives what was the best method for cleaning high-cavitation molds. Husky recommended dry ice blast cleaning systems from Cold Jet.
Dry ice blasting uses non-abrasive media in the form of recycled CO2pellets that won’t damage surfaces or equipment. The dry ice pellets are propelled at high velocities to blast contaminants from the mold surface. The combination of dry ice blast cleaning’s kinetic energy and thermal effects breaks the connection between the dirt and the surface, lifting away contaminants. Other manufacturers have found that by using Cold Jet’s system they can decrease cleaning time by 50 to 75%, and because the dry ice evaporates on contact, there is no run-off, rinsing, or drying required. Cold Jet systems do not damage or change the dimensions of the mold surface, thereby ensuring consistent part quality. Dry ice blasting is also safe and non-toxic, does not create downstream contamination, and reduces or eliminates employee exposure to dangerous chemical cleaning agents.
Following Husky’s recommendation and a Cold Jet demonstration, Silgan acquired two dry ice blasting cleaning systems, one that is located on the plant floor and the other used in the company’s maintenance room. Since integrating the systems into its cleaning cycles, Silgan has been able to reduce its maintenance room staff to a single person and has trained all its machine operators how to use Cold Jet’s cleaning systems. Cleaning time for a single mold went from two to three hours to less than 45 minutes, and the company is now finding multiple ways to use dry ice blasting in other areas of the plant. For example, Pond recalls the time when a PET dryer overheated and the resin melted in the dryer. Normally, workers would have to wait for the dryer and the resin to cool down and then remove the resin by chipping it out, a 12-24 hour process.Using dry ice blasting, Silgan was able to remove the resin and restore the dryer in less than two hours.
“In addition to the molds and the PET dryer, we have also eliminated nearly three days of downtime by using Cold Jet’s system to clean the injection screws on our presses, a process that usually required us to send the screws offsite,” adds Pond. “The time savings alone have been phenomenal as we have been able to clean our equipment better and faster while they are still online. We no longer have to worry about working dangerously close with hot equipment, our on-site environment and safety managers are happy, and we have dramatically reduced the amount of cleansers, degreasers, and alcohol that we buy and use for cleaning.”
Silgan Plastics still cleans on a cycle basis, but cleaning is now faster and easier. Every 15,000 cycles, machine operators use the Cold Jet system to clean and prepare the molds for the next 15,000 cycles. When a more thorough cleaning is required at 60,000 cycles, the maintenance person first blasts the molds with dry ice, which removes the majority of the residues. The molds are then removed from the presses so that workers can clean the rest of the equipment, oftentimes using only dry ice blasting.
“Everyone is impressed with the speed and effectiveness of Cold Jet’s systems,” says Pond. “They have easily paid for themselves more than two or three times over. It is because of Cold Jet’s systems that we are able to meet our high cleaning standards and our customers’ mold maintenance cycles.”
source https://www.packworld.com/article/ice-blast-cleaning-molds
Lynn Haven electrician Daniel Silbaugh describes what it’s like making hurricane repairs a year after Michael struck the Panhandle. Jeffrey Schweers, Capitol Reporter
PANAMA CITY — Four to five times a week, Tammy Wilson drives down from her ruined mobile home in Chipley to the food pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church in Panama City to put together hundreds of grocery bag packages for the homeless and needy displaced by Hurricane Michael.
“We live in a home that is covered in mold, and our foundation is busted up,” Wilson said, explaining her loud, hacking cough.
She and her husband saved up for 15 years to buy the home, which was only five weeks old when Michael struck on October 10. It was deemed a total loss, but 11 months later she and her husband are still fighting with the insurance company and even had to hire a lawyer.
More: The price tag of recovery after Hurricane Michael: Billions and billions of dollars
“They are not wanting to pay out because it was only five weeks old,” Wilson said. “Both the structural engineer and air quality control said it’s a complete loss.”
At a recent examination under oath at a hearing with her insurance company, Wilson said she was grilled for five hours.
They evacuated three miles up the road to ride out the storm at her aunt’s brick house. Neighbors said the wind picked up her mobile home and slammed it down on the foundation all day and all night. “It separated it, broke the seal and made it do this instead of sit flat,” she explains illustrating by tilting her hand at an angle.
The water damage caused a mold outbreak, but they had no place else to live. FEMA rejected their application for assistance because they had insurance, Wilson said.
“We had no choice,” she said.
She and her disabled husband, their four kids and a menagerie of dogs and cats live in the busted double-wide on disability income. The number of animals has increased because people either dropped them off with her or left them behind and never came back.
“We have extras because I can’t see them going hungry,” she said.
And then they got mold poisoning.
“We started getting sick a couple of months ago,” Wilson said. “ We’re on medication. We’re on blockers to block the mold and allergy medication.”
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On distribution day, Wednesday, she gets up at 3:30 a.m. to leave her house so she can be here before people start lining up outside at 5 a.m.
On a typical distribution day, she and other volunteers will distribute 32,000 pounds of groceries to 800 to 1,200 families a week.
“I don’t get home until about seven, eight at night,” she said.
People ask her all the time why she is doing this.
“I say this is my peace. This is my sanity,» Wilson said. «The only way I feel like I can survive is to help other people because I know how it feels for me, so I know how they’re feeling. If I can do anything to relieve a little bit of that, that’s all that matters.”
Contact Schweers at jschweers@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeffschweers.
Here’s how to navigate the Hurricane Michael interactive on Tallahassee.com Nate Chute, IndyStar
Experience the trajectory of tragedy
Visit michael.tallahassee.com to take a virtual tour of Hurricane Michael’s destruction from the coast to the Georgia state line as seen through the eyes, stories, photos and videos of our journalists and neighbors.
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Beginning on Oct. 10, landfall day, and continuing through the month, we will revisit some of the hardest hit communities and have daily datelined stories from nearly two dozen towns in North Florida and South Georgia.
Help us write the next chapter
The Tallahassee Democrat has won a $25,000 Facebook grant to continue chronicling the recovery after Hurricane Michael. We will pay community correspondents – writers, photographers and videographers – who live in the hardest-hit areas to help tell the stories of the storm’s aftermath and recovery. To apply, email us at letters@tallahassee.com.
How to Help
Rebuild 850: Launched in Nov. 2018, this organization, co-chaired by former Florida House Speakers Allan Bense and Will Weatherford, has been marshalling support for those still suffering. Donate or volunteer at rebuild850.org
One North Florida: This new initiative supported by NeverForgottenCoast.com, Mission850.com and the Community Foundation of North Florida helps connect volunteers and donors who want to Give, Go and Serve. Visit https://www.onenorthflorida.org/ for more information.
Storms of Our Lives
Join us at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct 18 at the American Legion Hall on Lake Ella for a special Storytellers night with the theme «Storms of Our Lives.» A fundraiser for Lee’s Place, it will feature about five local storytellers taking to the stage to tell you true stories about their own storm experiences (in the literal or figurative sense). Details at tickets.tallahasse.com
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Restoration 1 of Knoxville, the leading mold remediation experts, have released a mold infographic to the community showing the dangers of mold in Knoxville, TN, homes.
Knoxville, TN (PRUnderground) October 17th, 2019
The mold experts at Restoration 1 of Knoxville have made it their business to better inform the community about the dangers and causes of mold. Their most recent infographic details the effects mold has on families and homes, including common sources of mold, respiratory illnesses, and how to mitigate and remove mold through expert processes.
With over 10,000 mold species on the planet today, it’s impossible to keep control over every type found in homes. The key with mold remediation is to mitigate damage, clean the mess, and prevent mold from returning. Unfortunately, not many homeowners understand the process as a whole. This newly-published infographic hopes to better inform the community about mold as a whole.
The infographic published by Restoration 1 of Knoxville displays data unique to Tennessee — mold causes and asthma-related statistics among the population. It highlights key symptoms caused by specific types of mold, an overlook of the varieties of mold, how moisture affects the situation, and how to safely mitigate mold damage in your home.
The key here is the number of severe symptoms that mold exposure can cause. These include, but are not limited to, allergy-like symptoms, chronic coughing, sneezing, throat irritation, depression, anxiety, and an increased risk of infection and disease.
“Mold has long been a threat to Knoxville, Tennessee homes, but it is a very real and potentially dangerous threat to Tennesseans’ respiratory health, too,” said Thomas Riordan of Restoration 1 of Knoxville.
To read through the mold infographic, visit the Restoration 1 of Knoxville website. Share the infographic with your friends and family to help spread the word about the dangers of mold.
If you need to go a step beyond their informative content, Restoration 1 of Knoxville offers 24-hour mold remediation services to eliminate mold colonies in homes and businesses. Those with severe allergies or asthma will especially enjoy the high level of service provided by the mold experts at Restoration 1.
About Restoration 1
Founded in 2008, Restoration 1® is an award-winning franchise that specializes in a wide array of emergency mitigation, restoration, and reconstruction services. An industry innovator, the Texas-based company uses advanced technologies and tools to perform restoration for both residential and commercial properties that have been damaged due to water, smoke, fire, mold, storms and more. There are more than 120 locations throughout the U.S. with plans to expand to more than 500 locations nationwide in the next four years. For more information about Restoration 1®, visit http://www.restoration1.com.
Consumers are largely unaware that most commercial cannabis grown today undergoes some form of decontamination to treat the industry’s growing problem of mold, yeast and other microbial pathogens. As more cannabis brands fail regulatory testing for contaminants, businesses are increasingly turning to radiation, ozone gas, hydrogen peroxide or other damaging remediation methods to ensure compliance and avoid product recalls. It has made cannabis cultivation and extraction more challenging and more expensive than ever, not to mention inflaming the industry’s ongoing supply problem.
The problem is only going to get worse as states like Nevada and California are beginning to implement more regulations including even tougher microbial contamination limits. The technological and economic burdens are becoming too much for some cultivators, driving some of them out of business. It’s also putting an even greater strain on them to meet product demand.
It’s critical that the industry establishes new product standards to reassure consumers that the cannabis products they buy are safe. But it is even more critical that the industry look beyond traditional agricultural remediation methods to solve the microbial problems.
Mold and other microbial pathogens are found everywhere in the environment, including the air, food and water that people consume. While there is no consensus yet on the health consequences of consuming these contaminants through cannabis, risks are certainly emerging. According to a 2015 study by the Cannabis Safety Institutei, molds are generally harmless in the environment, but some may present a health threat when inhaled, particularly to immunocompromised individuals. Mycotoxins resulting from molds such as Aspergillus can cause illnesses such as allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Even when killed with treatment, the dead pathogens could trigger allergies or asthma.
There is an abundance of pathogens that can affect cannabis cultivation, but the most common types are Botrytis (bud rot, sometimes called gray mold) and Powdery Mildew. They are also among the most devastating blights to cannabis crops. Numerous chemical controls are available to help prevent or stem an outbreak, ranging from fungicides and horticultural oils to bicarbonates and biological controls. While these controls may save an otherwise doomed crop, they introduce their own potential health risks through the overexposure and consumption of chemical residues.
The issue is further compounded by the fact that the states in which cannabis is legal can’t agree on which microbial pathogens to test for, nor how to test. Colorado, for instance, requires only three pathogen tests (for salmonella, E. coli, and mycotoxins from mold), while Massachusetts has exceedingly strict testing regulations for clean products. Massachusetts-based testing lab, ProVerde Laboratories, reports that approximately 30% of the cannabis flowers it tests have some kind of mold or yeast contamination.
If a cannabis product fails required microbial testing and can’t be remedied in a compliant way, the grower will inevitably experience a severe – and potentially crippling – financial hit to a lost crop. Willow Industries, a microbial remediation company, says that cannabis microbial contamination is projected to be a $3 billion problem by 2020ii.
Remediation Falls Short
With the financial stakes so high, the cannabis industry has taken cues from the food industry and adopted a variety of ways to remediate cannabis harvests contaminated with pathogens. Ketch DeGabrielle of Qloris Consulting spent two years studying cannabis microbial remediation methods and summarized their pros and consiii.
He found that some common sterilization approaches like autoclaves, steam and dry heat are impractical for cannabis due the decarboxylation and harsh damage they inflict on the product. Some growers spray or immerse cannabis flowers in hydrogen peroxide, but the resulting moisture can actually cause more spores to germinate, while the chemical reduces the terpene content in the flowers.
The more favored, technologically advanced remediation approaches include ozone or similar gas treatment, which is relatively inexpensive and treats the entire plant. However, it’s difficult to gas products on a large scale, and gas results in terpene loss. Microwaves can kill pathogens effectively through cellular rupture, but can burn the product. Ionizing radiation kills microbial life by destroying their DNA, but the process can create carcinogenic chemical compounds and harmful free radicals. Radio frequency (which DeGabrielle considers the best method) effectively kills yeast and mold by oscillating the water in them, but it can result in moisture and terpene loss.
The bottom line: no remediation method is perfect. Prevention of microbial contamination is a better approach. But all three conventional approaches to cannabis cultivation – outdoors, greenhouses and indoor grow operations – make it extremely difficult to control contamination. Mold spores can easily gain a foothold both indoors and out through air, water, food and human contact, quickly spreading into an epidemic.
The industry needs to establish new quality standards for product purity and employ new growing practices to meet them. Advanced technologies can help create near perfect growing ecosystems and microclimates for growing cannabis free of mold contamination. Internet of Things sensors combined with AI-driven robotics and automation can dramatically reduce human intervention in the growing process, along with human-induced contamination. Natural sunlight supplemented with new lighting technologies that provide near full-light and UV spectrum can stimulate robust growth more resistant to disease. Computational fluid dynamic models can help growers achieve optimal temperature, humidity, velocity, filtration and sanitation of air flow. And tissue culture micropropagation of plant stock can eliminate virus and pathogen threats, to name just a few of the latest innovations.
Growing legal cannabis today is a risky business that can cost growers millions of dollars if pathogens contaminate a crop. Remediation methods to remove microbial contamination may work to varying degrees, but they introduce another set of problems that can impact consumer health and comprise product quality.
References
i. Holmes M, Vyas JM, Steinbach W, McPartland J. 2015. Microbiological Safety Testing of Cannabis. Cannabis Safety Institute. http://cannabissafetyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Microbiological-Safety-Testing-of-Cannabis.pdf
ii. Jill Ellsworth, June 2019, Eliminating Microbials in Marijuana, Willow Industries, https://willowindustries.com/eliminating-microbials-in-marijuana/#
iii. Ketch DeGabrielle, April 2018, Largest U.S. Cannabis Farm Shares Two Years of Mold Remediation Research, Analytical Cannabis, https://www.analyticalcannabis.com/articles/largest-us-cannabis-farm-shares-two-years-of-mold-remediation-research-299842
Inside the complex of more than 700 units at 6401 Time Square Ave. was mold and mildew, eroding foundations, rotted porch railings and ceilings split from water damage. There were rotting walls, leaky sliding-glass doors, improperly installed windows and nails popping out of the walls, a lawsuit claimed.
Damage Mold 