Posted on 08/02/2016 7:35:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
A newly built high-rise residential tower in San Francisco that's home to famed 49ers' quarterback Joe Montana and Giants' outfielder Hunter Pence is slowly sinking and shifting, and may ignite a court battle between residents and the city.
The 58-story Millennium Tower, located at 301 Mission Street just south of the city's financial district, was completed in 2008 and has sunk 16 inches and shifted 2 inches to the northwest since opening, according to a report issued by an independent consultant obtained by KTVU-TV.
The owners of the $350 million building told KTVU the construction next door of the Transbay Transit Center, a $4.5 billion project to serve as a hub of mass transit, has caused the ground movements.
P.J. Johnston, spokesman for Millennium Partners, which built the tower, told KTVU in a written statement that the transit center has been a negative impact on the luxury high-rise.
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Bet it’s tilting left.
Sounds like the ground is unstable. One big quake could bring it down.
This wouldn’t have happened if Trump built the tower!
Also, if Trump DID build this, you KNOW the media will be all over it 24/7!!!
The leaning tower of Frisco. Bet it will not last long.
Depends on which side you’re looking at.
It’s all landfill over there on Mission Street.
The building is literally standing on mud, sand, and garbage.
Sort of like the Obama administration.
If anyone is killed, get Stone and Keller on the case.
Used to be an office tower in Atlanta that had a visible lean. The ‘experts’ claimed it was just an optical illusion. But they demolished the building after only 25 years of use, highly unusual for an office tower. (As a side note, it cost as much to demolish it as it did to build it, as it had to be carefully deconstructed floor by floor.)
NASA: California Drought Causing (San Joaquin) Valley Land to Sink August 19, 2015
Trump's fault!!!
I can’t believe a building inspector allowed this, especially in earthquake country.
You can build on/over a land fill provided you pound steel pilings down to bedrock.
>>> ..... sunk 16 inches and shifted 2 inches to the northwest since opening,
Sort of like the Obama administration. <<<<
You’d have to measure it in “miles” not inches for the Obama administration.
Looks to be built like those Chinese buildings that collapse.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01432/China1_1432360i.jpg
That building is floating. An earthquake will bring it down.
FTA: the high-rise is made of concrete rather than steel, “resulting in a very heavy building. This heavy structure rests on layers of soft, compressible soil. The foundation of the Tower, however, consists only of a concrete slab supported by short piles that fail to reach the bedrock below. That foundation is inadequate to prevent settlement of a building with the weight of the Tower.”
Pretty strange. Buildings of the size have to be anchored to bedrock. That said, I wonder if the earthquake proof features are allowing it to shift? Some buildings are designed to sway with counterweighting. Some buildings are actually sitting on ball bearings.
How does a 16 inch sink affect the entrances?
Are they adding more steps down as it sinks, or just elongating the wheelchair ramps?
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