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Offline PeteS in CA

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After sinking 18 inches, SF's Millennium Tower finally has a fix

https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/SF-s-sinking-Millenium-Tower-to-finally-get-fixed-15439863.php

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San Francisco's beleaguered Millennium Tower is still sinking, but a fix is finally on the way.

The last inspection of the lopsided tower revealed the northwest corner descended at least 18 inches into the bay fill at Mission and Fremont streets, but a $100 million fix for the 645-foot-tall residential building will likely begin in the fall after years of planning, permits and numerous lawsuits.

The blue-gray glassy modernist tower, completed in 2009 at 301 Mission Street, is the tallest residential building in the city and won numerous engineering awards upon its construction.

Then, things started to go wrong.

The 58-story luxury high-rise was revealed to be ... tilting.

If it were possible to compare aerial pictures of what is now SF to what the same area was 2 or 3 centuries ago, the older picture would show the tip of the peninsula was much smaller in the past. Back in the Gold Rush and afterwards, the area of SF was made larger by filling in along the edge of the bay. Over the decades, this "made land" became a significant area. A year or two ago I found a map showing the areas of SF that are on landfill, and as best I could tell by comparing it to a modern map, the Millennium Tower is on or partly on landfill. And apparently the foundation design was not adequate for the geology of the site.
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