Posted on 10/24/2016 1:32:26 PM PDT by LRoggy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 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. And engineers hired to assess the problem say it shows no immediate sign of stopping.
"What concerns me most is the tilting," says Buttery, 76, a retired real estate developer. "Is it safe to stay here? For how long?"
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.
By comparison, Italy's famed Leaning Tower of Pisa is leaning more than 16 feet. But in a major earthquake fault zone, the Millennium Tower's structural problems have raised alarm and become the focus of a public scandal.
Several documents involving the downtown building were leaked in recent weeks, including exchanges between the city's Department of Building Inspection and Millennium Partners, the developer. They show both sides knew the building was sinking more than anticipated before it opened in late 2009, but neither made that information public.
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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.
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.
Sunk 16 inches in the time period. That is quite a bit! How do you hide that?
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.
Post #74 resurrected the Thread, not me. LOL
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