Followup on St. Louis BicycleWorks Building Collapse from Bicycling.com | Bicycling.com

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A building in the historic Lemp Brewery complex in St. Louis, Missouri, partially collapsed on August 23, burying an estimated 700 bikes donated to St. Louis Bicycle Works. It’s a hard blow for the local nonprofit program, especially as people are relying on bicycles for transportation—or as a safe form of exercise and recreation during the coronavirus pandemic—now more than ever.

No one was inside the building when the collapse occurred. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the nonprofit’s executive director Patrick Van Der Tuin said he had recently reported loose bricks falling from the building and that caution tape was put up around the building last week. The building’s owner, Shashi Palamand, said that an engineer and masonry company had reportedly declared the building to be structurally sound within the past few weeks.

“During the pandemic, we’ve been storing even more bikes than usual at the Lemp facility, as well as working out of there for better social distancing. We are so grateful that no one was in the space when it collapsed,” BWorks said in its Facebook post.

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Followup on St. Louis BicycleWorks Building Collapse from Bicycling.com | Bicycling.com

MoBikeFed comment: St Louis Bicycle Works is one of the most amazing and effective bicycle nonprofits in Missouri.

Visit their web site to find out more or to make a donation in support of their work: https://www.bworks.org/