Surfside building collapse prompts officials to act quickly in Miami Beach, North Miami Beach Published: Updated: Tags: Miami Beach building residents displaced over safety concerns MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Officials displaced hundreds of apartment building residents over safety concerns Friday and Saturday in Miami-Dade County. Tanbeer Mahmood was displaced from an apartment in a Miami Beach property that records show was built in 1925. He said the city official’s decision to evacuate didn’t surprise him. “We’ve been just going through this struggle for a while,” Mahmood said about the building’s maintenance. The tragic June 24th partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside prompted building officials in Miami-Dade County to increase audits and inspections of residential properties.