'And so we got our luggage out and packed our luggage with the things that were most important to us and clothing and we left.' 'The anxiety just grew and grew and grew until we decided, well, you know, it's clear if there's a quake we felt unsafe,' said Faulk. I mean, putting that building up was complicated enough, taking it down is profoundly more complicated,' said Peskin.įaulk and his husband were among the first to sell their luxury condo in the Millennium Tower back in 2017. 'The city must demand that there is a well-thought-out plan for retreat and dismantling of that building should we ever, god forbid, get there. Peskin has now scheduled hearings on the matter at City Hall. 'The question that has not been satisfactorily answered as far as I'm concerned is at what point is the point of no return.' 'The building today is not in any imminent threat of structural failure,' said Peskin. That is something that's also been on San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin's mind. 'It's possible that you cannot find an acceptable solution,' he said. Williams believes the decision led to a problem that he says may not be fixable. But clearly, they pushed it past its limits,' said Williams. 'They must've decided to either risk it or convince themselves that it would work for the much-heavier building. When the design changed to 58-floors of heavy concrete, he believes the foundation became inadequate. 'Clearly, it had been distressed.'Īccording to Williams, the Millennium Tower was originally designed as a much-lighter steel high-rise. 'The dishing of the floor there, which is the dishing of the ten-foot-thick mat, was significant,' said Williams. Water appeared to be seeping through the concrete walls and huge chunks of wall seemed to have crumbled away, even though the building was only seven years old.įaulk says building management never disclosed anything about the sinking when he purchased the unit. But he says the most shocking was what they discovered when visiting the lowest part of the garage. There were also growing cracks in the sidewalk. READ MORE: Despite Warnings, Repairs on San Francisco's Millennium Tower Caused Additional Sinking 'The flooring between the two levels, one sank and one didn't,' said Faulk. There had been a problem with the pool that straddles the Millennium's two structures that had to be fixed. Then the couple started connecting the dots with things they had noticed soon after they moved in. 'We thought, 'Oh, this can't be a big thing,' you know? This is a building in downtown San Francisco,' said Faulk. We were surprised, and we were a little shocked,' said Faulk. 'The marble turns around and picks up speed as it heads in the direction that the building was leaning.

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