Tenants in two downtown Miami commercial buildings had five minutes to get their belongings and evacuate due to what the landlords claimed was a structurally unsafe building at risk of collapse, according to Coral Gables attorney David Winker, who represents four tenants. 

As Winker sees it, the mass emergency evacuation is an example of a larger trend of South Florida landlords taking advantage of tenants after the collapse of Champlain Towers South in June 2021.