Before condo building collapsed, engineering firm estimated $9M+ in repairs needed Curt Anderson and Bernard Condon, Associated Press Tags: Crews work near a open tunnel, center near the bottom, in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, Sunday, June 27, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. One hundred fifty-nine people were still unaccounted for two days after Thursday's collapse. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Owners of units in a Florida oceanfront condo building that collapsed with deadly consequences were just days away from a deadline to start making steep payments toward more than $9 million in major repairs that had been recommended nearly three years earlier.