The rest said somewhere between $400 and $6.1 million. Reportedly, 163 owners have petitioned for reduced property assessments for tax (avoidance) purposes: “In their applications, homeowners had to estimate what their units are worth now. You can see it in person or google streetview or photos online. The dynamic loads of the cars driving around in the 5 floors of garage and the wanderings of the eminent inhabitants is tiny compared to peak ground velocity of a major quake or several major quakes over the hopefully eternal life of such an iconic symbol of the age.īTW, you can see the damage this has done to where the pavement meets the building’s corner by Mission/Fremont. Why is it always the most wealthy that must suffer?Īnd this is all under roughly static conditions. Would be a pity to have to sacrifice some of the parking to cross brace. Wonder if they have triangular bracing in the basement or just right angles because they expected even settlement (no one could have predicted…). Bowing it like an unbalanced and overloaded seesaw. Probably straining the entire concrete substructure. The deeper issue is that by leaning the building is putting additional weight on the low edge or corner, like carving the edge of a snowboard into powder or digging the heel of a crampon into soft ice, or in this case steel reinforced concrete into muck. I wonder if the total lean at the top is about 2 feet. Of course most people don’t have another ten people standing on top of their head as they lean ever so perceptibly. An equivalent of that 2 inches over 60 feet for a 6 foot person would be one-fifth of an inch, not one-fiftieth. That’s about 60 feet of building that is off by 2 inches. The Millennium’s 2 inch lean is measured at the ground. I think your estimate of the lean is off by an order of magnitude. This was a defensive action, not an offensive one. The City is not actually seeking “damages” (although the city attorney incorrectly used that term in the cross-complaint) but just reimbursement for any monies the City might have to pay to the condo owners. The claim is for indemnity, meaning that if City is found liable but the developer is responsible in whole or part for any of the damage, they will have to kick in. This is just a routine cross-complaint by the City against the builders to make sure all parties that may have contributed to the problem are brought into the litigation. Today’s suit is a cross-complaint, with the city seeking damages from the developer, “as the court deems appropriate.”Ī large number of condo owners sued the City and other government agencies for “inverse condemnation.” This is a type of “takings” claim where some government action (here, construction that caused the building to sink/tilt) causes you to lose property. Homeowners at 301 Mission Street filed suit against the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and the City and County of San Francisco on August 17. A settlement of six inches, over the lifetime of the tower, was the maximum originally predicted by the project’s geotechnical engineer.Īll that being said, there are no indications that the tower is unsafe and Millennium Partners is pointing the finger directly at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and adjacent Transbay Transit Center development, which broke ground in 2010, for accelerating and exacerbating the tower’s settlement. The tower has since settled a total of 16 inches with a two-inch tilt. And by early 2009, the tower had settled 8.3 inches and was starting to tilt. The San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, has filed suit against Millennium Partners, alleging that the development team knew, and didn’t adequately disclose, that the 58-story Millennium Tower at 301 Mission Street was sinking further and faster than expected prior to opening its sales office.Īccording to an investigation by the City Attorney’s Office, the development team knew that the tower had already settled almost 6 inches by the time it was completed in early 2008. #301 Mission Street, #City Attorney, #Lawsuits, #Millennium Partners, #Millennium Tower, #Transbay District, #Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), #Transbay Transit Center
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