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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Millennium Tower Residents Complain That Building Not Only Sinks, It Stinks

A new report via a resident at the nicknamed Leaning Tower of San Francisco, a.k.a. Millennium Tower adds further fuel to homeowners' rage about the developer's alleged construction shortcuts. Against the

Scientists Can See The Millennium Tower's Tilt From Space

Emphasizing the scale of the problem facing developers and residents, scientists with the European Space Agency last week announced that the tilt and sink of San Francisco's Millennium Tower is visible from space.

Civil Claim Filed Against Both The City And Transbay Terminal Developer In Millennium Tower Morass

Another week, another legal filing regarding the Leaning Tower of San Francisco, a.k.a. Millennium Tower which has also sunk into the ground a reportedly unexpected sixteen inches since it was completed

City Attorney Files Civil Suit Against Millennium Tower Developer

The City Attorney's office is suing Millennium Partners, the developer of the Millennium Tower, alleging that they neglected to disclose to buyers their knowledge of the building's excessive settling — the tower now tilts

Watch A Millennium Tower Resident Roll A Marble Claiming To Show The Building's Tilt

If the unevenly sinking Millennium Tower is San Francisco's answer to Italy's Tower of Pisa, our comeback to Galileo — said to have performed gravity experiments from that classic structure — is this dude who