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Tilting, Sinking San Francisco High-Rise Raises Alarm
AP ^ | 10/24/2016 | Jocelyn Gecker

Posted on 10/24/2016 1:32:26 PM PDT by LRoggy

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To: LRoggy

I remember when the Luxor Hotel Pyramid in Vegas was sinking.

Supposedly it ended up costing them more than the original cost of the Building to fix the problem.


81 posted on 09/06/2018 9:57:51 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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Completed seven years ago, the tower so far has sunk 16 inches into the soft soil and landfill of San Francisco’s crowded financial district. But it’s not sinking evenly, which has created a 2-inch tilt at the base - and a roughly 6-inch lean at the top.


completed 7 years ago

Sunk 16 inches in the time period. That is quite a bit! How do you hide that?


82 posted on 09/06/2018 10:08:34 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Nope, star of the first Dirty Harry Movie. The Towering Inferno Building was a piece of Cinematic trickery.

I had to look up that post, was from 2016! Anyway, you're responding to someone else, not me.

As for the old B of A building on California Street in SF, it indeed was the star of The Towering Inferno movie, which I did mention. I was working in SF at the time and remember the movie crews there. Yes, they did some CGI type trickery to raise the height of the building, but much of the movie was filmed there. Try to be more timely on post responses, please! Thanks.

83 posted on 09/06/2018 11:05:53 AM PDT by roadcat
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Post #74 resurrected the Thread, not me. LOL


84 posted on 09/06/2018 3:26:30 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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