4,600 ‘ Soft Story ‘ apartment houses still require retrofits from the earthquake
Weinstein Construction2025-02-23T12:41:35-08:00City authorities and property owners in Los Angeles are making strides in retrofitting the kinds of apartment houses that were particularly susceptible in the earthquake in Northridge in 1994. This week, tens of thousands of houses were toppled and damaged by the devastating — and deadly— temblor that hit 25 years earlier. As of this month, 1,500 Soft Story houses have been retrofitted and, according [...]