The engineer for SF's Millennium Tower fix is proposing a new solution to stop the building from sinking any further, but not everyone is convinced.
fix is proposing a new solution to stop the Mission Street building from sinking any further, but not everyone is convinced.
When it comes to San Francisco's leaning and sinking Millennium Tower, the number one concern, is the building safe?"We have demonstrated to our satisfaction and hopefully eventually to the city's satisfaction as well, that the building will remain safe, that it will stop settling and that it will begin recovering tilt," said Ron Hamburger.
"I mean why would you overdesign something and spend tens of millions of dollars more than you had to. I'm not buying it," Peskin later told ABC7 News.A retrofit that began in May to right the sinking building caused the building to sink even more.The Department of Building Inspection is providing oversight of the project.
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