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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http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml
http://millenniumptrs.com/
Christopher Jeffries, Philip Aarons, Philip Lovett
Perhaps the contributions should have gone to building the damn building correct the first time?
As long as it Leans Forward!, it’s OK!
The leaning tower of SODOM.
LMAO, “Leans Forward”.
It leans left I presume?
Just rechristen it the Bill Clinton Arms then.
I bet it would just lean straight if it had been a Trump Tower. May be let Trump fix and make it great again?
Gee the builder wasn’t Nancy’s hubbie?
Very good.....you win these internets today!
Do these sinking high-rise residents actually ride the elevators?
That could precipitate a heart attack right there.
It’s the democrat way.
As opposed to bending over? (It is SF ya'know)
Just where I want to be when the next big earthquake hits. NOT!
Stronger together!
“Dodson and other residents blame developers for what they say is a flawed design. The tower’s foundation, for instance, uses piles driven 60 to 90 feet into landfill, rather than the pricier option of going down at least 240 feet to bedrock.”
Yeah, nothing like a luxury building where they cut costs somewhere that no one will notice.
Quickly now; before it falls, sell it to the Chinese. They’re buying up California as fast as they can.
It just has pneumonia.
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I guess the middle class taxpayers of California who have a 9.3% tax rate could be called upon to suck it up and pay much much more. The city of San Francisco certainly should never qualify for any federal aid on anything as they are a self-proclaimed Sanctuary City. The Treasury department, under Trump, should simply go get a court injunction from a friendly federal Judge to cutoff all funds to said Sanctuary cities (directly or indirectly) until Congress specifically appropriates such funds for said Sanctuary cities due to the excess costs that their “sanctuary” status is inflicting on the rest of the country.
Seriously, if you are going to attempt to build anything in San Fran you are going to have to give lots of cash to the left, because that’s the party in power... If you tried to build in a Republican controlled area, the donations would be to R’s....
Not everything is politics.
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