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Memorial or high-rise? Future of condo collapse site argued

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By TERRY SPENCER
Associated Press

The fight over whether the site of June’s deadly Florida condominium collapse should be sold for development or turned into a memorial boiled over during an emotional court hearing. Some victims’ relatives begged Thursday for time to find a buyer who won’t put a new luxury high-rise at the side of Champlain Towers South in Surfside where 98 people died. They want to find a private party or government that will pay the $150 million for the beachfront lot and donate it for a memorial. But the judge overseeing the sale said his job is to get the most money for survivors and heirs and no one has stepped forward. 

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