>>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.
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.
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.
A leftward tilt?
Who signed off on this ? Shifting foundation, lean and in a earthquake zone. Tear it down , asap, before it falls down.
Millennium Partners first proposed the development in 2002 with 163 condominiums, 108 rentals and a 136-unit "extended stay" hotel. The project was approved in 2003 by the S.F. Planning Commission 4–1 and construction began in 2005. The only vote against the project came from Planning Commissioner Sue Lee. The development was the first high rise built downtown in 20 years. According to Modern Luxury, a proposed 52-story skyscraper at nearby 80 Natoma by developer Jack Myers which would also have a similar cast in place concrete construction, was rejected by the city's Department of Building Inspections (DBI) after an outside peer review. The Millennium Tower received no such scrutiny, since Millennium Partners would not submit to a peer review, as that study would have potentially delayed construction by years. Treadwell & Rollo, the geotechnical engineer for Millennium Tower, were also the geotechnical engineer for the scrapped project at 80 Natoma.
On September 6, 2010, Dan Goodwin, also known as SpiderDan and Skyscraperman, scaled the outside of the tower using suction cups. Following the climb, Goodwin was arrested by the San Francisco police, who charged him with trespassing and creating a public nuisance.
In 2013, the building sold its final unit, generating US$750 million in total sales, a 25 percent return on the estimated US$600 million in development costs.
Just hang a sign on the front and charge admission, The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Most of the state of CA is moving to the northwest, towards the Pacific Ocean, north of Frisco.
i think much of SF is built on marshes filled in as landfills ... those areas essentially temporarily liquefy when vibrated by earthquakes ...
So, then: Looking North, a San Francisco building is just being normal?