Posted on 10/29/2021 8:57:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The building is now tilting 25 inches to the northwest, towards the heavily-traveled corner of Mission and Fremont streets. In an exclusive interview, we spoke to one former condo owner who says he’s glad he got out.
“What they said was, this was not a big problem,” said Faulk.
Later, Faulk’s husband Frank Jernigan rolled a marble on the floor of their $4 million, 50th-floor condo that confirmed for them that the problem was all too real.
“The marble turns around and picks up speed as it heads in the direction that the building was leaning. We were surprised, and we were a little shocked,”
“The dishing of the floor there, which is the dishing of the ten-foot-thick mat, was significant,” said Williams. “Clearly, it had been distressed.”
“The city must demand that there is a well-thought-out plan for retreat and dismantling of that building should we ever, god forbid, get there. I mean, putting that building up was complicated enough, taking it down is profoundly more complicated,”
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>>Not to worry! Simply purchase a few of hunter’s top paintings and the big jamoke will insert a clause to cover the newest leaning tower.
Yep, there is no doubt in my mind that taxpayers are eventually pay for this disaster.
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Thats the way it works when you can buy politicians.
Floor leveler. $40 for a 40 pound bag. Not saying it’s the answer but should we feel sad for those that can afford that? Young women felt very sad when Princess Di died. Mother Teresa died around the same time. Different reaction(none). What happens when the next tragedy hits the Kennedy family? Gotta admit our Leaning Tower of Pisa is raising eyebrows. Only the classless would laugh-heh heh.
Leaning too far left always results in potential disasters. Him having a ‘husband’ is an internal structural disaster of the soul just up ahead.
“Later, Faulk’s husband Frank Jernigan”
Two men married in San Fran..shocked I tell ya shocked.
No problem, because it’s insured. By the same company that insured the twin towers in NYC.
Catastrophic failure is the term, I believe.
Run for your lives if you live in its shadow.
My Nephews in-laws live in that building. His Father in Law is heading up the tenants committee, working with Lawyers and what not. No idea where things stand.
“The marble turns around and picks up speed as it heads in the direction that the building was leaning. We were surprised, and we were a little shocked,”
I thought the Hitchcockian angles, and vertigo were part of the charm.
There is a nice set of search results for news and YTs going back years about this disaster of a building, and the exacerbations of the, uh, Exacerbators who went the wrong way on the attempt to fix the problem. Ultimately, this is mostly a poor-little-rich-liberals and More Money Than Brains story. Demolition is inevitable now, and due to the proximity to other tall structures and the glob of mud they're all built on, it'll take years to complete and require reversing the construction process.
Y’know, give or take another earthquake.
It’s going to fail. Everyone who lives there and the surrounding neighborhood is in grave danger.
lol, call it “The Mystery Spot North.”
According to Williams, the Millennium Tower was originally designed as a much-lighter steel high-rise. When the design changed to 58-floors of heavy concrete, he believes the foundation became inadequate.
“They must’ve decided to either risk it or convince themselves that it would work for the much-heavier building. But clearly, they pushed it past its limits,” said Williams.
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If this is true, it is an outrageous building change. No structural engineer to review? the city inspectional service didn’t notice a change like this? Criminal.
One needs a structural engineer to sign-off on removing a wall in a kitchen and sizing a support beam in a house. that a change of this significance was made to a skyscraper without a structural review is beyond belief.
I agree, unless it is dismantled, it’ll go, without further ado, and it’ll damage or demolish everything in its path.
Nobody will notice that the wall is 3” shorter on that side of the room.
Floor leveller is not going to help with the increasing tilt of the entire building. In fact, it will make the problem worse by adding weight to the side that is sinking.
The developer and all involved (especially the building inspectors and foundation engineers) with the construction should be held personally responsible and the building needs to come down before it collapses.
Maybe 100 of those separated illegal families can donate 50% of their government money to fix this problem. That’s $22,500,000.
Are people still living there? Who would buy the unit from them, unless speculating on a large lawsuit victory?
How will it do in an earthquake?
Just like a city slicker, a level would work better.
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