Residents, retail tenants at former Dolphin Tower await answers

A major project to repair The 101 Condominium's parking garage will have an effect — but what level that remains unknown.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:50 p.m. April 11, 2022
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Dolphin Tower was initially evacuated in 2010, and repair work began in 2014. (File photo)

Manatee-Sarasota

Residents and retail tenants at the former Dolphin Tower in Sarasota, once evacuated for years because of structural problems, have been waiting the past few weeks to learn how repairs to the building’s parking garage will affect them.

The building association’s president expected to hear from engineers on the project April 1 and then later on the week of April 4. As of April 11, word on how the work will be scheduled and what will happen to residents and retail tenants had not yet come. The 15-story tower, now known as The 101 Condominium, is in downtown Sarasota, on 101 S. Gulfstream Ave.

“The contractor is promising they will give us a revised shoring plan by the end of the day tomorrow. That will give us the impact on the commercial unit owner and her tenants,” Jim Toale, the association's president, wrote in an email to the Business Observer April 7.