Millennium Tower Engineers Propose New Fix as Building Leans by More Than Two Feet

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🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In 2016, the public learned that Millennium Tower, a 60-story luxury condo highrise in downtown San Francisco, was tilting to the northwestby 16 inches. Fast forward five years and the lean is now at about 26 inches. The tower has been sinking at a rate of about 3 inches per year despite tens of millions of dollars being spent to stop it. . Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, the firm hired to fix the leaning tower, recently submitted a revised plan to city officials after their previous efforts resulted in increased titling. We talk about the latest developments in the Millennium Tower saga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. In 2016, the public learned that Millennium Tower,
1:07.3	a 60-story luxury condo high-rise in downtown San Francisco, was tilting to the
1:13.8	northwest by 16 inches. The tower sinking at a rate of about half an inch per year as the material
1:20.2	it was built on settles, causing the lien to increase. Fast forward five years, and the lien is now
1:26.6	over two feet.
1:28.8	Simpson, Gumpurts, and Hager, the firm hired to fix the Leaning Tower, has said the building
1:33.6	remains safe and will remain so even if the lien increases substantially more.
1:40.6	The building does continue to settle at a rate of about one-half inch per year and to settle at a rate of about one half inch per year and to tilt at a rate of about three inches per year.
1:50.0	It is doing this whether we are conducting work at the site or not.
1:55.0	The building remains safe, but although the building remains safe, we believe the project needs to resume construction
2:03.0	and complete this construction quickly to stop fervous settlement and tilping and to allow some
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