By Tao Woolfe
Workers were putting finishing touches on the grounds of the $85.3 million Avion Riverwalk last month, laying stone walkways around newly planted palms and flowering trees.
The 10-story luxury apartment building at the southeast corner of Woolbright Road and Federal Highway is scheduled to open in late April or early May, according to a leasing agent who declined to give her name. The leasing office could be open as soon as next month, the agent said.
The building — with 326 units and 41,976 square feet of retail space — was approved by the City Commission in January 2017. Construction work on the building and on the tenants’ parking garage — begun in 2021 — appears to be almost complete.
Earth-moving equipment and pallets of walkway stone occupied the grounds leading from the building to the Riverwalk Plaza parking lot late last month. Men in bright yellow vests kept visitors from walking inside the orange netting surrounding the work.
The project was the site of a construction accident last March that killed two workers.
Boynton Beach police and fire officials reported that part of the concrete structure had collapsed, crushing the workers, identified as Jeremias Mendez, 32, and Eduardo Cruz-Moran, 25, both of West Palm Beach.
The regional Occupational Safety and Health Administration office in Plantation, following a six-month investigation, cited subcontractor Riverblock Solution, LLC with three “serious” violations of workplace safety and fined the company about $25,000.
The OSHA citations specified that Riverblock Solution:
• “Did not ensure the formwork was braced to support the vertical and lateral loads during the dismantling process.”
• “Did not develop safety procedures to ensure formwork was adequately braced during its assembly and dismantling process.”
• “Did not provide training to employees to recognize and avoid hazards associated with the assembly and dismantling of formwork, thus exposing employees to struck-by hazards.”
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