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Tilting, sinking San Francisco high-rise raises alarm
AP ^ | Oct 24, 2016 | JOCELYN GECKER

Posted on 10/24/2016 9:12:04 AM PDT by Ray76

Pamela Buttery noticed something peculiar six years ago while practicing golf putting in her 57th-floor apartment at the luxurious Millennium Tower. The ball kept veering to the same corner of her living room.

Those were the first signs for residents of the sleek, mirrored high-rise that something was wrong.

The 58-story building has gained notoriety in recent weeks as the "leaning tower of San Francisco." But it's not just leaning. It's sinking, too.

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To: Ray76
"When is this building going to stop sinking?" asks Jerry Dodson, an attorney and engineer who paid $2.1 million in 2009 for his two-bedroom apartment on the 42nd floor.

Penthouses have sold for more than $10 million.

The tower's troubles are apparent in its five-floor underground garage, where Porsches and Lamborghinis sit near walls bearing floor-to-ceiling cracks, many bracketed by stress gauges to measure growth.

Meanwhile, accusations and lawsuits are piling up.

I'd never pay that much money to live in earthquake-prone Sodom and Gomorrah. Next up: rich leftists suing each other - time for Orville Reddenbacher!

21 posted on 10/24/2016 9:35:39 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Ray76

I smell a class action lawsuit.

The lawyers will walk away with a bundle and the apartment owners will still take a financial bath.


22 posted on 10/24/2016 9:36:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: headstamp 2

no kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


23 posted on 10/24/2016 9:37:34 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump is running against EVERYONE. The Democrats, The Media, and the establishment GOP)
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To: lurk

Nah the gubmint will bail them out. Isn’t that what it’s there for? lol


24 posted on 10/24/2016 9:38:05 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Ray76

Everybody knows building on bay mud fill requires sinking the foundation down to bedrock. At least for big heavy buildings like this. How in hell SF allowed this monstrosity to be floated atop the ooze — !? It’s so extremely unacceptable a building practice in that location — there must really have been serious bribes or payoffs involved. Follow the $!!!!


25 posted on 10/24/2016 9:38:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: faithhopecharity

The damned thing is so big and massive — if it has to be pulled down before it falls down , can this disassembly job even be done ?? ??


26 posted on 10/24/2016 9:41:31 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: Ray76
"When is this building going to stop sinking?" asks Jerry Dodson, an attorney and engineer who paid $2.1 million in 2009 for his two-bedroom apartment on the 42nd floor. "That's something that no one has been able to answer."

Jerry will soon have a garden apartment in the building.

27 posted on 10/24/2016 9:41:32 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Voting Trump. It is not just a vote, it is a chance to burn down the rotten Uniparty.)
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To: bkopto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_(film)

We just watched this yesterday....wild stuff!


28 posted on 10/24/2016 9:41:43 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: COBOL2Java

Glad it wasn’t built by Trump —can you imagine the outcry??


29 posted on 10/24/2016 9:42:55 AM PDT by duckbutt (Those who pay no taxes have no check on their appetite for services.)
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To: Iron Munro

Yep——System is so corrupted and rigged and needed fixing 100 years ago-—the Lawyers and judges and bankers are the real winners to defraud the masses out of their hard-earned private property.

Of course, it is always the lawyers and judges who “fix” the system-—LOL.
The masses are “dupes” (useful idiots) being run by an evil cartel system which the “judges” deem “constitutional”-—LOL.


30 posted on 10/24/2016 9:45:47 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Thibodeaux
I'll take your word for it. Even if the building is sound from an engineering perspective, the perception of there being something wrong is gonna play havoc with the condos valuation.

CC

31 posted on 10/24/2016 9:46:34 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Ray76

“Pamela Buttery noticed something peculiar six years ago while practicing golf putting “

Did they allow women to start playing golf? Did I miss something?


32 posted on 10/24/2016 9:46:34 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Novermber 8th. AMERICA'S BREXIT!)
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To: Flick Lives
Jerry will soon have a garden apartment in the building.

Maybe it was all part of the design - you know, the elevator stays put and the building moves?

33 posted on 10/24/2016 9:46:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: DesertRhino

while practicing golf putting
= = =

Might be an euphemism.

Ball in the hole, and all.


34 posted on 10/24/2016 9:50:57 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( LOTS of /s)
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To: Ray76
The ball kept veering to the same corner of her living room.

Brings a whole new meaning to the term "Balls to the wall."

35 posted on 10/24/2016 10:00:35 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Thibodeaux; All

[ksi ==(?) kilopounds per square inch]


36 posted on 10/24/2016 10:01:46 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: COBOL2Java
Perhaps the building is just getting ahead of the curve for the Sci-Fi world envisioned in Hugh Howey's "Wool" omnibus.


37 posted on 10/24/2016 10:03:21 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Voting Trump. It is not just a vote, it is a chance to burn down the rotten Uniparty.)
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To: DesertRhino
"Did I miss something?"

No. Pamela is a man. Sort of......

38 posted on 10/24/2016 10:09:24 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Bedrock in that part of town is 240 feet. The builders tried using friction pilings.


39 posted on 10/24/2016 10:13:25 AM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: OregonRancher

Somewhat unsuccessfully I might add.

CC


40 posted on 10/24/2016 10:15:26 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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