Imagine showing up to work, feeling the entire building violently shake, and then being told you have to evacuate immediately—leaving your car trapped in the underground parking garage.
Now, imagine receiving an email three weeks later from the building’s management informing you that it could be another 90 days before you are allowed to retrieve your vehicle.
This is the exact nightmare currently unfolding for dozens of employees and visitors at the Empire Towers building in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The office complex was recently declared structurally unsound by county officials, and the ongoing stabilization efforts have turned the underground garage into an indefinite holding pen for over a hundred personal vehicles…