This year, for the first time, the beach club took over the Santa Monica Pier. Here's everything that went down.

load-bearing brick pier," work that was not authorized. A news release from the Department of Buildings, which commissioned the report, described a key factor in the collapse: "critically the ...

The report released Monday attributed the April 2023 collapse to multiple factors, including what it called the “dangerous demolition of a structural brick pier inside the building performed ...