Millennium Email Notes ‘Concern' About New Geotechnical Review

The Millennium Tower Association’s consultant complained to city officials last month about the potential impact of an independent geotechnical review of the troubled project to fix the sinking and leaning tower. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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[wuhanbiruSux]

That's a real money pit right there! Just take it down before it wrecks downtown

[richardmcleod]

Anyone would be a fool to sleep in this building regardless of what supposed fixes are made on the building. It was a failure from the beginning. The building is way too tall for a State with the earthquakes known to be in California. Codes in California only allowed for buildings to be no higher than 13 stories. Even that height is questionable.

[roachtoasties]

Out of curiosity, I was looking up HOA fees for this joint. It looks like they're about $2, 000 per month, but probably more or less, depending on the unit. Of course, there can always be special assessments, and that's on top of mortgage payments, property taxes, insurance, and the like. All this, for living in a building that could be red-tagged, if this "fix" doesn't work.

[loschekell]

This will not end well. The building will not likely collapse but it will become empty just from the odor of the backed up raw sewage. It's the proverbial Potemkin Village. It has a beautiful facade but when you look behind the facade it's a stinking cesspool.

[HaloToday]

Having the HOA of the building hire the outside consultant is a conflict of interest. They're going to hire the consultant that will say exactly what they want to hear to appease the homeowners of the building and public safety will not be a priority. Hope in the end everything works out with nobody getting hurt/killed and the homeowners losing out as little as possible but that reality is getting further and further away from reality.

[kqa]

Take it down before it falls down! Those residents are wealthy enough to find new homes.

[simonmilligan]

This building needs to be condemned. Period.

[hazmatman]

Why aren't neighbors freaked out? This building isn't going to collapse... it's going to tip over crushing several other buildings! The millionaire investors can eat it. TEAR IT DOWN!

[nsu]

Have the book makers in Vegas started a betting pool as to when the Millennium tower will collapse?

[tuomasholo]

The lean has caused the drain pipes to accumulate human waste because the slope is no longer there. It’s going to get very unhealthy in the tower.

[scronx]

Never move into a new building more than one story tall.

[jasonsmith]

don't worry these tenants have
and insurance
I worry about the working class people walking around this building

[dtrainsss]

Sounds like Champlain towers all over again

[jeffw]

Want to hear something funny: I wonder what percentage of residents consider this their primary residence? Most people who live in this building are so rich that this isn’t their only home. It’s more like a speculative investment that failed.

Also, the city of San Francisco is completely negligent in this case for building a billion dollar bus terminal right next door. Even if Millennium Tower was still settling, the bus station construction caused Millennium Tower to start to lean.

[JennyWren]

Perhaps a De-veloper can squeeze in another tall stack of apartments, like a wedge, right up close to the Leaning MillenTower and make big bucks on renting out more Unaffordable

[bobbymoss]

Lmao, that POS will collapse and all the rich people who bought a unit will cry. I hope they have homeowner insurance.

[TheLIRRFrenchie...]

If memory serves me correctly, wasn't Peskin one of the supervisors who approved this building to be built?? The building was built with more concrete than most modern high rises usually are, and they didn't sink piles to the bedrock as a cost cutting measure and to move people in asap to get a return on their investment. Now that decision is coming back to haunt all of them!!

[sklife]

it just blows my mind they will throw so much money to try and patch the problem and maybe fail. and even it comes down on its own witch no one wants. but would be best to have people leave and take it down and restart from scratch and fix it right . I hope this new guy says well best is to take it down and rebuild.

[AtlasLathe]

All we hear is from engineers and Politicians. Has anyone actually estimated death toll if it does fall over?

[ShakespeareCafe]

Wait until several inches of rain falls on Sunday. That ground will be saturated with water. San Francisco is prone to flooding because of all the hills. Intersections are going to be a foot deep on Sunday