A $100 million fix to stop a San Francisco luxury high-rise from sinking and tilting even more is on hold while engineers try to learn why the building has sunk another inch during the repair.
FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, independent soil engineers install data collection devices and obtain soil samples outside the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. A $100 million fix to stop the San Francisco luxury high-rise from sinking and tilting even more is on hold while engineers try to learn why the building has sunk another inch during the repair.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A $100 million fix to stop a San Francisco luxury high-rise from sinking and tilting even more is on hold while engineers try to learn why the building has sunk another inch during the repair. Doug Elmets, spokesman for the Millennium Tower, said in a statement that pile installation to beef up the building's foundation is on hold for two to four weeks as they try to understand why the “increased settlement rate and available means of mitigating this."The 58-story tower opened to fanfare in 2009 and all 419 apartments quickly sold out.
But by 2016, the building had sunk 16 inches into the soft soil and landfill of San Francisco’s dense financial district. It was also leaning, creating a 2-inch tilt at the base and a 6-inch lean at the top. Residents sued the developer and designers. A confidential settlement reached last year with homeowners included $100 million to install 52 concrete, 140,000-pound piles to anchor the building to bedrock 250 feet below ground. Piles provide foundation support.
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