A building in Philadelphia appears to keep shedding its windows.
And this isn’t a recent phenomenon, either — according to residents, it’s been happening for about the last three years.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports how the Riverwalk — a residential apartment building that sits near the Schuylkill River — was built back in 2021 by Philadelphia’s largest residential landlord, PMC Property Group.
According to the same Philadelphia Inquirer article, PMC Property Group filed two lawsuits in Common Please Court of Philadelphia — one in June, then another one in July — against Wisconsin-based window company, Wasau Window, as well as Wall Systems Supply, to whom they paid tens of millions of dollars to supply windows that allegedly “spontaneously” break.
As for how “spontaneously” this has occurred, the Philadelphia Business Journal states over 60 times across three towers. And residents claim that, despite three years of repeated complaints, management hasn’t really done much to address the issue.
“Someone’s going to die,” told one resident, Sam Myers, to the Inquirer.
Adds he according to Fox 29: “Past three months I think we’ve had six or seven windows fall. Eventually it’s going to fall on someone.”
PMC Management, in a statement sent to Fox 29, maintains that they are “aware of [these] issues” and also that they “have taken immediate steps to address them.”
“These incidents have led us to file suit against the manufacturer, Wausau Window, to resolve any defects,” explains the statement. “PMC is also working closely with the city of Philadelphia’s Departments of Licenses and Inspections and structural engineers.
“Additionally, we are collaborating with a glass vendor to remove and replace cracked windows. Although the tempered glass windows are designed to crack into small pieces like a car windshield, we are proactively erecting protective ground-level scaffolding at Riverwalk.”