More than 550 students remain out of their dorm rooms in the old Center City building where the school rents space. The building failed another safety inspection today. The school is footing the bill for the students to stay at Center City hotels and picking up their meal tabs, as well.
The city ordered a mass evacuation early Monday morning after License and Inspections found a staggering list of safety code violations including a broken fire alarm system and a faulty heating system.
None of this is a shock to the students who pay roughly $1,000 a month to live here.
"There's cockroaches, there's mold, there's dust everywhere," student Rebecca Martin said.
The evacuation was ordered at 4:30 Monday morning when one student's carbon monoxide detector went off.
The school is allowing students to go up to their rooms to retrieve medicine and study materials, but frustration is growing.
Workmen have been seen going in and out of the Broad and Chestnut landmark since the evacuation, but after another walk through inspection today with the landlords, a New York acquisition and holding company, L and I said there's been progress, but it is still nowhere near being in compliance.
The next inspection has been set for Friday morning, which means students are out of their dorms until then.
