![]() Piles would be installed to connect the building’s foundation to rock along its Mission Street and Fremont Street-facing sides.” As the Chronicle explains, “The piles are expected to relieve pressure on the tower’s existing foundation and mitigate the sinking and tilting. ![]() While the original plan called for 52 piles, which caused more sinking, the new plan calls for only 18. The new plan involves installing fewer “support piles,” which are like tubes of concrete intended to shore up the building. That letter outlines a controversial new fix that will make things worse before they get better, as the letter acknowledges the fix will make the building sink and lean “a little more.” They now have a new plan, according to NBC Bay Area, who obtained a letter to Millennium Tower homeowners and the city. ![]() But true to this cursed condo tower’s luck, the sinking only got worse, and then it turned out that the fix itself was causing the increased sinking.Īnd so it is back to the drawing board for project engineer Ronald Hamburger and engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. The infamous sinking luxury tower is now tilting 26 inches, after a previous fix caused even more leaning, so engineers are instituting yet another controversial new fix.īack in the late summer, the extremely troubled high-rise Millennium Tower got permits for a $100 million fix that was supposed to end all of these “stinking and sinking” jokes (and protect terrified residents) once and for all. ![]()
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