![]() He represented about 100 Millennium Tower residents who reached a mediated settlement in 2020 with developers and others to a lawsuit claiming their property values plummeted with news of the sinking. ![]() “When you have a high rise that collapses and you had a situation in San Francisco - we had a high rise that was sinking and tilting - it affects people’s peace of mind,” said attorney Niall McCarthy. Now, amid reports suggesting the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South more than 3,000 miles away in Surfside, Florida, began in the building’s lower reaches, questions are being raised about the Bay Area tower’s structural integrity. “It was billed as one of the top 10 most luxurious buildings in the world,” former Millennium resident Frank Jernigan recalled.īut, since it opened, the hulking blue-gray tower has sunk 18 inches into the soft downtown soil on which it was built - and it’s tilting, according to the Millennium’s current engineer, Ronald Hamburger. ![]() San Francisco’s lavish Millennium Tower, with soaring panoramic views and world-class amenities, opened to great fanfare in 2009.Ī dozen years later, it’s still promoted “Your city within the city,” a 58-story monolith with more than 400 multimillion-dollar units in San Francisco’s tallest residential building. By Dan Simon, Julia Jones and Ray Sanchez | CNN ![]()
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