Reply to post: Re: Not the developer's fault.

San Francisco's sinking luxury Millennium Tower: Tilt spotted FROM SPACE

Brian Miller

Re: Not the developer's fault.

Time line:

2009, construction completed. Expected subsidence: 4 to 6 inches.

2009, DBI deputy director Raymond Lui writes letter raising questions about building's sinking.

2013, TJPA began dewatering. Millennium Tower had already sunk 12.1 inches, two to three times what was expected for its entire lifetime.

2016, Millennium Tower has currently sunk 16 inches.

While the dewatering of the TJPA project and 350 Mission Street project and other nearby projects may have contributed to an additional four inches of subsidence, it remains that by the time the first project started, the building had sunk just over a foot down.

On the bright side, the building will still have the vast majority of its height above ground, even if it sinks down to the bedrock. ;)

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