SF News New Millennium Tower Fix Approved by San Francisco Will (Hopefully) Stop and Reverse Tilt Scaled down from the original plan, the revised fix relies on 18 piles — instead of the initially proposed 52 — to anchor the 645-foot high-rise to bedrock on the two sides where it's leaned and tilted the most, helping both prevent future tilt and straighten the building.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Millennium Tower Fix Hits Yet Another Potential Snag An underground wall could pose a problem for the ongoing Millennium Tower fix, SFO had a computer meltdown this morning, and Newsom's office is discussing "inflation relief" checks and a higher minimum wage.
SF News Millennium Tower Engineers Propose New Fix After Last Fix Backfired, Caused More Sinking The infamous sinking luxury tower is now tilting 26 inches, after a previous fix caused even more leaning, so engineers are instituting yet another controversial new fix.
SF News Multiple Downtown SF Skyscrapers Are Causing Entire Area to Slowly Sink Much media attention has been lavished on the tilting and sinking Millennium Tower, a fix for which remains in the works. But the entire downtown area is actually sinking, though maybe not all quite as fast.
SF News Old Bay Clay and Foundation Piles: Millennium Tower's Tilting Troubles and Fixes Finally Well Explained Practical Engineering, a YouTube channel with 2.4 million subscribers, which has now done an excellent 13-minute video explaining the history of Millennium Tower's troubles.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Millennium Tower Undergoes Important Soil Test PG&E is warning of more wind and more power shutoffs later this week, Millennium Tower is undergoing a key test to the effects of the ongoing sinking fix, and the smoldering Caldor Fire is still putting off a fair bit of smoke despite being almost entirely contained.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Millennium Tower Tilt Likely to Cause Sewer Trouble The Fawn Fire in Shasta County has grown to 5,850 acres and has destroyed 25 homes, an early morning crash on the Bay Bridge caused major traffic, and a third batch of stimulus checks is coming from the state.
SF News Millennium Tower May Be Sinking Faster Due to Digging That's Part of Effort to Stop It Sinking The effort to shore up the foundation of Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, which began in May, may be contributing to an accelerated rate of settlement that engineers are observing, causing alarm.
SF News Millennium Tower's Accelerated Sinking Halts $100 Million Effort to Stop It The ongoing project to shore up the foundation of the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in downtown SF is temporarily on hold as engineers examine some newly accelerated sinking and tilting of the building.
SF News SF Taxpayers On the Hook For $30 Million to Shore Up the Sinking Millennium Tower Alas, a new detail has emerged in the as-yet-not-fully-disclosed settlement of multiple lawsuits related to the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, and it's the fact that SF taxpayers will be footing a piece of the overall bill.
SF News Sinking, Tilting Millennium Tower Slated for a $100 Million Fix This Fall The tallest residential butt of jokes in San Francisco will supposedly finally get fixed, as its permits and approvals for repairs are at long last complete.
SF News Window Blown Out From Millennium Tower, No Injuries Reported Today's 30-plus-mile-an-hour winds shattered a window on the 41st floor of the tilting SoMa building; the Big Bad Wolf could never.
SF News Sound Art Installation Simulates the Sinking and Tilting of Millennium Tower A new piece of sound art installed at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) means to mimic and/or satirize the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, and the artists who created it say the piece will remain in place "until the building falls or the building is fixed."
SF News Millennium Tower Homeowners Receive 'Significant Payments' In Settlement As Foundation Work Moves Forward Condo owners at the leaning and tilting Millennium Tower are getting big payouts as the developer and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) are settling around 200 lawsuits this week.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Supervisors Kill Housing Development Due To Shadow On Park The fix for the sinking Millennium Tower is still over a year off, a 21-year-old man was fatally shot in Oakland last night, and a 63-unit building in SoMa was shot down by the BoS because of the partial shadow it would cast on a park.
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: Condo In Sinking Millennium Tower Improbably Sells Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Your weekend ICYIM: Another SF homicide plays into the
SF News Sinking Millennium Tower Will Tilt 10 More Inches By 2019, Lawyers Argue It’s been ten whole days since the sinking Millennium Tower has been in the news, which is pretty good for the troubled development that. But attorneys for homeowners suing Millennium partners insist
SF News Sinking Millennium Tower Would Survive 'The Big One,' Experts Insist We’re huge fans of watching San Francisco get destroyed in Hollywood disaster films here at SFist, and I'd bet there are some people who'd pay good money to see a movie where
SF News Millennium Tower Tilted Over Two Inches In Last Six Months, But A Fix May Be In The Works The sinking and leaning tower of our downtown skyline, the eight-year-old Millennium Tower, continues to sink and tilt, and new data released by an engineering firm that has been monitoring the tower's movement
SF News Millennium Tower Update: Outside Consultant Finds Gaps In Walls That Could Indicate Fire Risk You may remember how earlier this year, piling on top of the many troubles facing the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, several residents were complaining of odors drifting into their units from elsewhere
SF News Millennium Tower Resident Joe Montana Sues Developer The sinking and stinking Millennium Tower can add to its list of litigious victims four-time Super Bowl champion 49ers quarterback Joe Montana. Montana not only bought one of the units at the Millennium
SF News Peer Review Engineer From Millennium Tower Project Says He Did Not Consider Transbay Center Impacts At a Board of Supervisors committee hearing Friday, one of the engineers tasked with reviewing the foundation of the now sinking Millennium Tower when it was in the design and construction process testified
SF News New Millennium Tower Lawsuit Seeks Funds To Repair The Building's Problems The latest lawsuit in the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower saga has been filed by the building's homeowners' association, and it lists a collection of defendants, including the developer, architect, and the Transbay
SF News Millennium Tower's Earthquake Fitness Models May Not Have Been Accurate Residents of Millennium Tower have one more reason to shake their fists at the sky and/or file another lawsuit as a report comes to light from a structural engineering expert that suggests
SF News Berkeley Prof Who Consulted On Sinking SF Tower Blames The Ground, Which He Wasn't Required To Examine A Cal professor who worked as a paid consultant on the Millennium Tower claimed to city supervisors yesterday that an additional expert would have been needed to look at the building's geotechnical complications,
