{"id":291,"date":"2019-02-26T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2019-03-13T22:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T22:46:41","slug":"leaning-millenium-tower-san-francisco-tilting-sinking-multi-million-dollar-condos-nearly-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/leaning-millenium-tower-san-francisco-tilting-sinking-multi-million-dollar-condos-nearly-worthless\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern luxury 645 ft tall yet tilting and sinking: 58-story SF skyscraper has sunk 17″, tilted 14″, multimillion-dollar condos “nearly worthless”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Millennium Tower in San Francisco is still sinking and leaning.<\/a> A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking \u2014 and residents say their multimillion-dollar condos are ‘nearly worthless’

The developer\u2019s spokesman PJ Johnston said he had no direct comment on the satellite data<\/a> but issued a statement saying that the Millennium Tower is a state-of-the-art building that was \u201cdesigned and constructed to the extraordinarily high standards\u201d mandated by San Francisco.

The building\u2019s developer, Millennium Partners, insists the building is safe for occupancy and could withstand an earthquake.

The satellite data shows the Millennium Tower sunk 40 to 45 millimeters — or 1.6 to 1.8 inches — over a recent one-year period and almost double that amount — 2.6 to 2.9 inches — over its 17-month observation period, said Petar Marinkovic, founder and chief scientist of PPO Labs which analyzed the satellite\u2019s radar imagery for the ESA along with Norway-based research institute Norut.

Jerry and Pat Dodson\u2019s problems with Millennium Tower\u2014not of the sinking-into-the-earth sort, but of the social variety\u2014started with a walk around the block.<\/a>:

It was August 1, the day the news hit the front page of the Chronicle that the 58-story luxury condo building that the Dodsons called home was settling and tilting. Like many of her neighbors, Pat had only learned in May that the Millennium was in a different state than when she\u2019d bought her unit back in 2009 for $2.1 million\u2014namely 16 inches lower and listing several inches to the northwest. Suddenly, the warped, cracking sidewalk at the monolith\u2019s base\u2014like the leaks in the basement and the splintering interior ramp purportedly marbled over by the developer\u2014signaled that something was amiss.

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Image courtesy Beck Diefenbach \/ Reuters<\/a> and San Francisco Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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