San Francisco Millennium Tower Residents File Claims Over Structural Problems
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Some residents at San Francisco's Millennium Tower are filing legal claims against the owner, saying they weren't warned early enough about the tower's structural problems.
KCBS, KPIX 5 and Chronicle insider Phil Matier reports in Monday's Matier and Ross column that they learned in May that the tower is sinking about an inch per year, from a geotechnical engineer hired by the tower's homeowners' association.
That engineer said the tower, which was built on landfill, will most likely sink up to 15 additional inches, and that its two-inch tilt could get worse.
Millennium Partners said the design is safe. But already, cracks and water seepage have appeared in the building's underground garage and on sidewalks outside the building.
The owners blame the problem on the big Transbay Transit Center dig next door. But the Transbay Joint Powers Authority said the tilt and sinking is not their fault.