From the link in #42
“The building is in fact on piles, not footings (to clear up some info I’ve been seeing). So if it had ongoing settling as the 90s report indicated that is quite unusual.
There was no change of ownership, thus no complete inspection, only routine city inspections and routine procedures to get the original owners (all the Tenants) to pay for building maintenance.
It was a missed opportunity, by circumstance, to repair critical structural issues.