A luxury high-rise building in downtown San Francisco is tilting and sinking, possibly paving the way for a costly legal battle.

The Millennium Tower located at 301 Mission Street, was built in 2008, and boasts condos ranging from $1.6 million to $10 million, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

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Since completion, the 58-story building has sunk 16 inches and tilted two inches to the northwest, according to an independent consultant, the Chronicle reports.

While it’s normal for buildings to settle, the high-rise’s builders predicted the tower would only settle six inches over the course of its lifetime, according to a statement from the Transbay Joint Powers Authority.

Residents and a spokesman for Millenium Partners, the group that built the towers, allege that the high-rise is sinking because the city dug a massive hole next door, which will be home to the new Transbay Transit Center, KGO-TV reported. 

The Transbay Joint Powers Authority maintains that it “bears no responsibility for the tilt and excessive settlement,” according to a statement.

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A consultant hired by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority found that by the time city construction crews broke ground in 2010, the Millenium Tower had already settled 10 inches, the Chronicle reported.

The transit authority alleges that the building’s fate was sealed when its builders decided to support the structure on a foundation consisting “only of a concrete slab supported by short piles that fail to reach the bedrock below.”

“That foundation is inadequate to prevent settlement of a building with the weight of the Tower,” the transit authority said in a statement.

According to the statement, two similar buildings adjacent to the Transit Center site, are supported on piles drilled down to bedrock.

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Every week,​ we​ ask all​ of our baseball​ writers​ — both the​ local​ scribes​ and the national team,​ more​ than​​ 30 writers in all — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results, the TA30.

Almost every team in baseball has made their way to the quarter mark of the season, which means we’re starting to see some narratives solidify themselves. Will the Yankees and Dodgers be able to keep up their hot pace for an entire season? Will the struggling Braves manage to put it back together? Can the Orioles, boosted by the newly called-up Adley Rutschman, find a groove and creep their way out of the basement?

Steve Berman will handle the American League teams and Fabian Ardaya will cover the National League squads this week.

There’s a lot of baseball left to be played, but here’s where we stand after 40ish games.

1. New York Yankees

Record: 29-12
Last Power Ranking: 1

The Yankees got hit with a wave of setbacks over the last week. Reliever Chad Green will require Tommy John surgery and is out for the season. Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka, already struggling this season, were sent to the COVID-19 IL prior to last weekend’s doubleheader against the White Sox. And Aroldis Chapman has had his fair share of struggles. And yet, here they are in our No. 1 spot, leading the AL East by five games, with a .707 winning percentage on the books.

This seems to be their first big test of adversity this season after a hot start. Winning at this rate while firing on all cylinders is one thing. Sustaining success through injuries and illness will be another.

2. Los Angeles Dodgers

Record: 27-13
Last Power Ranking: 2

Starting with last Sunday’s wild comeback win all the way to Saturday, the Dodgers had found themselves with a deficit in six of those seven games. They’d won all seven. And on Sunday, they never trailed — until Max Muncy booted a ground ball in extra innings and allowed the tying and winning runs to score in a 4-3 loss.

The Dodgers’ talent level is still shining through. Freddie Freeman has been precisely the type of hitter the Dodgers imagined he’d be, and now he’s spreading his gospel to his new teammates. He, Mookie Betts and Trea Turner have formed quite the formidable trio — which will get even more lethal the more “dangerous” Turner feels in the batter’s box.

In the last two weeks, they’ve gotten starts out of two guys making their big-league debuts (Ryan Pepiot and Michael Grove), along with a versatile swingman in Mitch White making just his fifth career start. And they still have the top ERA in baseball, even with their top reliever, Blake Treinen (who the club extended on Sunday), still a ways away from a return and their ace struggling to sort out what has been, to this point, his iconic pitch. This might be the best team in baseball. Just not this week.

3. New York Mets

Record: 28-15
Last Power Ranking: 3

Max Scherzer knows his body well. So when you see him making a slashing motion to his throat to signal to the Mets dugout, as he did on Wednesday, it is cause for concern. The Mets’ worries were validated hours later.

He will miss some time. Jacob deGrom is already missing time. So is the man who replaced him in the Opening Day rotation, Tylor Megill. As is their Opening Day catcher, James McCann.

Yet the Mets are not collapsing under their seemingly annual Metsiness. They’re thriving. Pete Alonso is sending lasers to the moon. Their hefty budget has paid off in their depth, allowing them to absorb significant blows and still sit comfortably in first place.

They are doing things that good baseball teams do. They can hit. (You mean Brandon Nimmo can cut his strikeout rate by 5 percent while hitting the ball harder than ever?) They can pitch. They’ve held their own defensively. Buck Showalter has acclimated himself as well as expected, a good fit for both market and roster. Francisco Lindor is doing Francisco Lindor things.

Let’s look at their upcoming schedule and … oh. Time for a test.

@ Giants
vs. Phillies
vs. Nationals
@ Dodgers
@ Padres
@ Angels
vs. Brewers

Lastly, Starling Marte — who has endured significant tragedy over the past few years — made his return to the Mets lineup this weekend following the death of his grandmother and hit a home run on the first pitch he saw. Nick Groke told “Ponga’s” story beautifully.

4. Houston Astros

Record: 27-15
Last Power Ranking: 4

The Astros lost a series to the Red Sox last week, but things are still rosy in Houston. In the second game of the series in Boston. the Astros tied an MLB record with five home runs in an inning, all off starter Nathan Eovaldi, culminating in a 13-4 win. Plus, they were probably due for a series loss since they didn’t lose a game for nearly two weeks. Speaking of that streak, Jayson Stark had a plethora of fun facts about what the Astros accomplished earlier in May. This one stuck out above the rest:

When that Astros streak finally came to an end last Saturday with a 13-6 loss in Washington, it was more than just a loss. It was history because it meant …

Runs allowed by Astros during 11-game win streak: 12

Runs allowed by Astros in game that ended streak: 13

Which made this … the longest winning streak in history in which a team gave up fewer runs during the whole winning streak than it gave up in the game that ended that streak.

The Yankees and Astros are the only teams in the top three in fWAR for position players and pitchers, and the Astros arguably play the best defense in baseball (the metrics like them, anyway). The Astros have made the ALCS in each of the past five seasons, and at this point, it seems likely that they’ll keep that streak going in October.

5. Milwaukee Brewers

Record: 26-15
Last Power Ranking: 5

This Brewers-Padres trade from 2019 is so fascinating to me:

Traded Zach Davies and Trent Grisham to the San Diego Padres. Received Eric Lauer, Luis Urías and player to be named.

Initially, this looked like a whopper for San Diego. Davies was quite good in 2020 and San Diego parlayed that into him being part of the Yu Darvish trade. Trent Grisham has been a stellar big leaguer, this year’s early struggles notwithstanding.

But Urías might be MLB’s next big star from Mexico (with some mentorship from Willy Adames). And Eric Lauer is downright shoving for a Brewers starting rotation that already has three former All-Stars (including reigning Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes).

It’s a great challenge trade for two of the best teams in the National League this year.

Speaking of former top prospects, maybe this is the time for Keston Hiura to become the bat they hoped for. If he does, it’s an exclamation point for a Milwaukee team looking every bit the NL Central favorite they were projected to be this year. And what a treat Brewers fans have in their broadcast teams, including the ever-versatile Brian Anderson.

6. San Diego Padres

Record: 27-14
Last Power Ranking: 7

Fernando Tatis Jr.’s future at shortstop has felt like an open question for so long. His trial in the outfield last season as he dealt with a dislocated left shoulder seemed like the door creaking open. But for as well as Ha-Seong Kim is performing and how poor some of the Padres’ outfield is hitting, Dennis Lin doesn’t think that’s too likely this year. If one of your main concerns is where an MVP finalist will slot into the lineup, that’s a good problem to have.

Another good problem? Having too many solid starters. Joe Musgrove is pitching like someone ready for a heftier bank account. Having Mike Clevinger and Blake Snell back and healthy has pushed MacKenzie Gore (who looked like he’d truly arrived) to the bullpen, and that rotation now looks scary good.

This feels like the Padres team we were sold, even before Tatis comes back.

7. Los Angeles Angels

Record: 26-17
Last Power Ranking: 6

Some of the hype surrounding the Angels was quieted a bit when they got swept in Texas, but they responded by taking two of three from the A’s. This is a team with not one, not two, but three MVP candidates. Hopefully Taylor Ward, who missed both games over the weekend after colliding with the wall while making a great catch on Friday, will return soon.

The Angels aren’t perfect. Noah Syndergaard can’t hold runners on, Jo Adell didn’t hit enough to stay in the majors (especially with how he plays defense in left), and they aren’t getting much from the catching position. Anthony Rendon, so far, hasn’t been worth the money. But when you have Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and a guy who’s hitting .370 with power, and one of your most pressing issues is who should be the backup catcher, things are going fine.

8. Tampa Bay Rays

Record: 24-17
Last Power Ranking: 9

All hail Brett Phillips, the most memorable outfielder who can’t really hit that this generation has produced. His lifetime slash line is .203/.287/.381 and his 2022 numbers almost mirror what he’s done in his eight-year career. But fixating on what he does at the plate is like going to an amazing taco truck and complaining about the lack of seating.

Phillips’ defense is what keeps him in the majors, but his entertainment value is off the charts. He’s made two pitching appearances this season, lobbing “fastballs” that wouldn’t be ticketed for speeding on rural country roads. His personality seems like one the Rays couldn’t bear to lose, just based on his mic’d-up segments and how he comports himself on the mound — even when Anthony Rendon takes him deep with a lefty beer-league swing. The Rays are known as one of the smartest franchises in the sport, and they keep rolling along toward yet another playoff berth, but Phillips’ presence shows that they might care about team chemistry more than you might think.

Another reason to think the Rays are more cuddly than their image as mathematical tacticians?

“We are not trying to ‘win’ trades,” Rays GM Peter Bendix told The Athletic in a recent interview. “We are trying to make our team better. If it makes the other team better at the same time, honestly, that’s great because that’s how both teams are going to win a trade, with coming away feeling happy and interested in making future trades.”

9. San Francisco Giants

Record: 22-18
Last Power Ranking: 7

It started mostly as a joke. I was covering the Angels in 2019, right after they’d acquired Tommy La Stella in a relatively minor deal that winter. He was a high contact rate kind of guy, someone to compete for the starting second-base job and hit a little, but definitely not for any thump.

Then the power came early that year. He was driving the ball. So I’d jokingly say it after each blast. “Tommy La Slugger.”

He wound up being an All-Star that year, all while still rarely striking out. He’s got some pop. But [wipes glasses] 464 feet? Even at Coors, I didn’t think he had that in him.

Turns out, swinging weighted bats and treating backspin like it’s adding juice to the dead baseballs helps. La Stella’s habits have certainly been influential on the Giants this year, from how he swings the bat to using his “Little Red Machine,” as Andrew Baggarly chronicled recently. Now the Giants seem like they really like Thairo Estrada, who they got on a waiver claim last April after all of 121 plate appearances with the Yankees.

Cue Jesse Pinkman screaming that they can’t keep getting away with this again.

10. Minnesota Twins

Record: 25-16
Last Power Ranking: 12

Carlos Correa, who was showing signs of a hot streak before he got injured, was activated off the IL last week. Great news, except that it meant another No. 1 pick got sent back to Triple A. Royce Lewis, whom the Twins took first in the 2017 draft, got demoted after hitting a homer and a double against the A’s.

When a team has the top free-agent shortstop and a shortstop who looks big-league ready, that’s a good thing. A superstar/potential star backlog at that position is rare.

Speaking of talented players, Byron Buxton isn’t hitting for average or walking much … but his isolated power (FanGraphs’ way of showing extra-base hits per at-bat) leads all of baseball. They even have the perfect hitter for the current dead-ball era. The Twins feel like a team with a very high ceiling.

11. Toronto Blue Jays

Record: 22-19
Last Power Ranking: 10

Toronto had a pretty good week, taking series from the Mariners and Reds (yeah, sure, the Reds are the Reds, but the Blue Jays didn’t make the schedule). Pitching once again led the way. Starting pitching, specifically.

Their offense, which was billed as one of the best in the game heading into this season, has been middle-of-the-pack. The bullpen has performed similarly, but one of their relievers realized something important: After being prescribed glasses, it might help to actually wear them. It’s fair to expect the hitters and relievers to perform better as the season progresses.

Toronto has been buoyed by two starters who are in the top five among the betting favorites to win the AL Cy Young. I had doubts that Kevin Gausman, after a shaky end to his otherwise brilliant 2021 with the Giants, would be worth the contract he got in a more hitter-friendly park. He’s been fantastic, with a 2.52 ERA and a ridiculous 1.25 FIP, which is what happens when you only allow one homer and three walks in 50 innings.

Alek Manoah, a bro who didn’t worry about being iced before the 2019 draft, looks like a future ace for years to come, with a 1.62 ERA after eight very strong innings on Saturday. Toronto leads the league in starters’ WAR, according to FanGraphs, which is usually a good sign for teams that expect to contend.

12. St. Louis Cardinals

Record: 23-18
Last Power Ranking: 11

Albert Pujols is having fun. He’s pitching. He’s stealing bases. He’s still crushing left-handed pitching. In his free time, he’s bonking teammates on the helmet (look around the 35-second mark on this clip). He’s even warming up Yadier Molina before his own pitching appearance as the Cardinals have seemingly turned to Old Timer’s Day on the mound the second they get into a blowout.

Last week: Albert Pujols pitching, Yadier Molina catching

This week: Yadier Molina pitching, Albert Pujols warming him up

@MLB pic.twitter.com/Gtll47TwCM

— The Athletic MLB (@TheAthleticMLB) May 22, 2022

He’s also playing on a winning ball club and will get some exciting new teammates. It’s not every day that you see a club call up its top hitting and pitching prospects on the same day, but the Cardinals are proving their roster is about more than just heartwarming reunion tours and living life like it’s 2006.

The one cause for concern? Nolan Gorman and Matthew Liberatore arrive just as Tyler O’Neill, the Cardinals’ top player in 2021 by Baseball-Reference WAR, hits the injured list with his OPS sitting at a measly .554. That’s lower than St. Louis’ winning percentage this year (.561).

13. Atlanta Braves

Record: 19-22
Last Power Ranking: 14

It seems like the baseball world is collectively poking a stick at the Braves and saying, “C’mon, do something.”

They’re the defending World Series champions, after all, and made moves to have themselves back in the mix this summer. But it’s been a slow start, particularly for the offense.

Despite their losing record, there’s a reason they’re so high on this list. Maybe they’ve been unlucky — their BaseRuns record would have them as a winning club. And having Ronald Acuña Jr. healthy (and staying healthy) will be a boost. It could just be a matter of time.

14. Chicago White Sox

Record: 21-20
Last Power Ranking: 13

The White Sox won three of five against the Royals before sweeping Sunday’s doubleheader to take two of three against the Yankees, and Tony La Russa seems like he’s extremely confident in his team’s long-term prospects despite the team’s slightly disappointing record. It seems like he’s fully on the load management train, which isn’t one a team willingly hops on unless they think they have the firepower to make up ground during the summer months.

Michael Kopech is looking more and more like an ace with every start; he was mixing nasty breaking stuff with 100 mph fastballs on Sunday night and the Yankees had no chance. And during a tough early stretch full of injuries, a little dose of Johnny Cueto may be just what the White Sox needed.

Johnny Cueto’s Messing With Timing Windups/Overlay pic.twitter.com/RAnNiItCHp

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) May 17, 2022

We also recommend James Fegan’s Q&A with Tim Anderson, one of the last hitters who doesn’t seem obsessed with hitting for a high average but believes that’s how he’ll help his team the most.

15. Philadelphia Phillies

Record: 19-22
Last Power Ranking: 15

Last week, it felt like the Phillies were the greatest lineup ever constructed. They went into Dodger Stadium and pushed around a pitching staff that entered the weekend with the best ERA in baseball. Bryce Harper looked unstoppable — except for his health.

He missed last Sunday’s finale at Dodger Stadium to receive a PRP injection in his throwing elbow, and didn’t play again until Saturday. The Phillies, coincidentally, managed just four runs in a span of four games at one point this week.

For a roster built around its ability to slug, that’s a problem.

The good news: They’ve managed to hang around even in this difficult stage of their schedule (two series each against the Mets and Dodgers along with the Mariners, Padres, Giants, Angels and Brewers) so far. If they can keep up until their schedule lightens, maybe they can make a run at it.

Speaking of: Roman Quinn might still be running from second base after his mad dash to end Sunday’s walk-off victory.

HE’S FAST, HE’S VERY FAST #RingTheBell pic.twitter.com/0Sh7ND7Spw

— Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) May 22, 2022

16. Boston Red Sox

Record: 19-22
Last Power Ranking: 21

What a difference a near-month makes. When I last handled these AL rankings, Trevor Story was a total disaster — a guy whose contract Red Sox fans were comparing to players like Pablo Sandoval.

Fast-forward to now, and Story is the guy helping the Red Sox turn the corner offensively, following up a three-homer performance on Thursday with a grand slam on Friday. It’s rare that a team has a productive week when one of the games features the team’s top starter giving up five homers in an inning, but the Red Sox won both of their series and seem like a team that’s seeing the clouds around them start to dissipate.

Another mood-lifter came from Rafael Devers, Boston’s best offensive player all season. Manager Alex Cora pumped his fist when Devers decided to do a postgame interview in English after Wednesday’s game. Though teams are generally very accepting of players wanting to conduct interviews in other languages — as they should be — the Red Sox seemed to appreciate one of their most charismatic players sharing another side of himself on Wednesday.

17. Cleveland Guardians

Record: 17-20
Last Power Ranking: 16

It was an uneventful week for the Guardians, mostly because they didn’t play much baseball. Due to scheduled off days and weather postponements, they only played four games. They won one of them and lost a little more ground in the AL Central.

COVID-19 also made things a little strange for the Guardians, who quietly have put together a strong lineup built almost completely with trades. Every week it seems like we write something about how Cleveland is a team that shows signs of making noise but will probably hang around .500 all season, and this past disjointed week didn’t change that. But they still have José Ramírez, who has finished in the top six in MVP voting in four of the past five seasons and looks primed to do so again.

T-18. Arizona Diamondbacks

Record: 21-22
Last Power Ranking: 17

Losing a baseball game stings, even when drawn out over the course of 162. Losing four games in a span of 42 hours while holding a lead in each game? That just seems brutal. That’s what happened when the Diamondbacks got to Dodger Stadium this week, a shock to the system after what has been a promising start.

They appear to be far better than the franchise that won just 52 games last year. They can pitch. Their lineup includes some intriguing young players, like Alek Thomas, Daulton Varsho and Pavin Smith, who are off to good starts in the big leagues. Christian Walker can certainly mash, too. Sitting at the bottom of the NL West at this point feels more like a testament to the division’s depth than it does to Arizona’s ability to compete.

What direction they go in July will be interesting. But in the meantime, they’re playing intriguing baseball.

T-18. Miami Marlins

Record: 18-22
Last Power Ranking: 18

Miami probably should have a better record than they do. They have a positive run differential. Their Pythagorean and BaseRuns records indicate they’re playing like a winning ballclub.

And it’s easy to talk yourself into that being the case. Pablo López has been one of the top starters in baseball this season, full stop. Sandy Alcántara is probably underrated among NL starters (and yes, he just tossed a complete game against the defending champs). They’re getting stellar performances out of Jazz Chisholm Jr., Brian Anderson and others. Jesús Águilar, Jorge Soler and Garrett Cooper create a formidable middle of the order.

The problem? The lows on this team have been quite low. Miguel Rojas, Jacob Stallings and Avisaíl García are off to really sluggish starts. The bullpen has struggled to close out games. Get some turnarounds, and maybe the Marlins can get themselves in the NL East mix.

20. Colorado Rockies

Record: 19-21
Last Power Ranking: 20

The Rockies got Kris Bryant back this weekend. They’ll need his production to return with him (he had just a .689 OPS in 65 plate appearances before hitting the injured list). The rest of their lineup seems … fine? They’re hovering right around league average in terms of team-wide wRC+. But their homegrown pitching, a strength for them in recent years, has slipped lately. That’s how you score five or more runs in five of six games and only win one.

The Rockies have still never won a division title. At this point, I’d venture to say that every club in the division has a quicker path to winning the NL West in the coming years than Colorado has. A last-place finish this year feels extremely possible.

OK, in lighter news: Brian Serven has had one heck of a week. The Arizona State product made his big-league debut and fouled off the first pitch he saw … right to his family sitting in the ballpark.

Baseball is special

Brian Serven fouled off the 1st pitch of his 1st major league AB. Where did it end up? In the hands of his family watching him play! pic.twitter.com/Bnadf9AcRC

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) May 18, 2022

And then, a few nights later, he slugged a pair of home runs. I couldn’t even do that in Road To The Show.

21. Texas Rangers

Record: 18-22
Last Power Ranking: 23

Trevor Story’s disappointing start got a lot of coverage, but Marcus Semien has been far worse: .180/.243/.234 with no home runs. It’s probably not worth worrying about too much; I saw him up close when he struggled throughout the shortened 2020 season and he bounced back with 45 homers for the Blue Jays.

The Rangers have had differing degrees of success with their slumping hitters this season. They helped get Adolis García back on track by urging him to forget the adjustments he made during the offseason and go back to doing what made him dynamic in 2021. They made a similar recommendation to Kole Calhoun. Semien seems to be a more difficult nut to crack, but Rangers manager Chris Woodward isn’t worried.

“It’ll happen,” Woodward said. “There’ll be a game where everything clicks — he’ll jump on some fastballs, he’ll get back to being Marcus Semien.”

Baseball is funny. The Rangers spent a half-billion dollars on Semien and Corey Seager, and their most valuable player has been Martín Pérez, a free agent they signed for $4 million.

22. Seattle Mariners

Record: 17-25
Last Power Ranking: 19

An entertaining series win against the Mets got the Mariners off to a nice start on their East Coast road trip. Then things went from bad (they lost two of three in Toronto) to worse (they got swept in a four-game series by the Red Sox).

Hopes were high in Seattle going into this season after they signed Robbie Ray, in part because Jarred Kelenic was expected to take a step forward. But after hitting .140 and striking out in 37.5 percent of his plate appearances, Kelenic was sent to Triple A.

It’s still early — for him and the Mariners — and Seattle went on a bit of a run late in the 2021 season. But things look bad right now. How bleak? One of the questions sent to Corey Brock’s mailbag simply read, “Why am I a Mariners fan?”

23. Oakland Athletics

Record: 17-26
Last Power Ranking: 22

It seems like the first thing that comes up whenever people talk about the A’s is home attendance. It’s to the point now where TV anchors are making jokes about it. Jay Leno would probably talk about it every night if he was still on. It’s not even low-hanging fruit anymore. It’s fruit that’s been stepped on.

Eno Sarris and Ken Rosenthal dove into why people aren’t going to the Coliseum, touching on just about all of the important points. I’ll add one more: The A’s can’t hit.

The A’s have the worst team average (.199), on-base percentage (.268) and slugging percentage (.306) in all of Major League Baseball.

— Steve Berman (@BASportsGuy) May 17, 2022

They’ve improved slightly since then (.205/.272/.313 after Sunday), but they’re still at the bottom of the league in each category. It’s a shame for a team that has a solid pitching staff. Paul Blackburn has been great, the rest of the starters have been solid, and if last year’s team had the same bullpen depth as this squad, they would’ve made the postseason in 2021.

Fans knew this team would be subpar during this rebuilding phase. But when you’re likely to see your team do next to nothing offensively — the A’s have scored two or fewer runs in 12 of their 20 home games — it’s even harder to get jazzed about coming to the Coliseum. Unless you’re a possum.

In happier A’s news, they signed an Australian free agent who they hope to develop as an infielder and a pitcher.

24. Chicago Cubs

Record: 16-24
Last Power Ranking: 24

Arizona’s Josh Rojas entered Wrigley Field with zero home runs on the year. He left Friday with three to his name. Daulton Varsho got the Little League home run treatment the next day, too.

When the Diamondbacks are running roughshod on you at home, it’s not a great sign.

Naturally, the Cubs and their fans are already looking to better days, past and future. They honored a franchise great in Fergie Jenkins on Friday, the type of rotation workhorse we may not see again.

Conversations are already starting up around the trade deadline, where a bloodletting last season included shipping off the likes of Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Báez. Will Willson Contreras be part of it this year? Moving past that era means developing several players they’ve gotten through those trades and the draft. Caleb Killian might be a good start once he breaks through to the big club. But Ed Howard missing the rest of the season’s worth of development due to a hip injury is cause for some concern.

25. Baltimore Orioles

Record: 17-25
Last Power Ranking: 27

The past week pretty much told the story of the 2022 Orioles. They’re showing signs that they aren’t among the two or three worst teams in MLB but will probably end up in the AL East cellar again. They lost more games than they won, but one of the victories was really fun — a wild 13-inning affair in which the Rays scored two runs in the 10th and another run in the 11th and still lost 8-6. They capped the week with a 7-6 win to take two of three from Tampa Bay, too.

But we’re burying the lede here, which is … Adley Rutschman (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap), who hit a triple and walked in his major-league debut Saturday. 

26. Pittsburgh Pirates

Record: 16-24
Last Power Ranking: 25

When you’re engaged in the years-long project the Pirates have been in, you’re looking for bright spots. Maybe it’s a set of young prospects, like the reigning No. 1 overall pick. Maybe it’s the latest mock draft, seeing who will be next to join Henry Davis in Pittsburgh’s system.

Even the big-league club has some interesting things going on. José Quintana has been the prototypical “sign a veteran starter, hope he pans out and gets you something in July” guy through his first few starts. Ben Gamel is having a promising start to the year while getting some everyday runs. Ke’Bryan Hayes is doing Ke’Bryan Hayes things and is a true delight to watch. Bryan Reynolds helped beef up his home run totals with a ball that didn’t even leave the ballpark on Saturday night. David Bednar has been one of the best relievers in all of baseball.

Eventually, they’ll need actual results. But it’s OK to take the little slivers as they come.

27. Detroit Tigers

Record: 14-26
Last Power Ranking: 28

It seems like every team has had a load of injuries and illnesses this season, but Cody Stavenhagen’s story on Friday makes a case that the Tigers have had more than their fair share:

• A.J. Hinch, who’s trying to find the right path forward, missed a game due to a non-COVID illness.
• Austin Meadows got an inner-ear infection that caused a vertigo-induced trip to the injured list.
• One of their best relievers, Will Vest, went on the COVID-19 list.
• Eduardo Rogríguez left Wednesday’s start in the first inning with pain in his left side.

There were six more injury-related notes in the story that had nothing to do with the players just mentioned. Pray for Tarik Skubal, the only member of the Tigers’ Opening Day rotation who’s still healthy.

“Dude, let’s get some bubble wrap,” said catcher Tucker Barnhart on a recent flight. “We gotta get you away from everyone.”

28. Kansas City Royals

Record: 14-26
Last Power Ranking: 26

Does anyone else feel like there’s something unsavory about Zack Greinke getting mentioned in every story about starting pitchers who could get traded at the deadline? It feels like he should be off-limits after re-signing with Kansas City after 11 seasons with other teams.

But that’s what happens when the Royals are toiling in the bottom five of the power rankings every week and Greinke did everything to make himself better this season, as our Alec Lewis described in a story that included a gem of a quote from Gil Meche: “Dude, I’m telling you, he’s a competitive little shit.”

It’s not all gloom-and-doom in Kansas City, however. Bobby Witt Jr. seems like he’s on the cusp of a breakout. That wasn’t enough to save the hitting coach’s job, however.

29. Washington Nationals

Record: 14-28
Last Power Ranking: 29

How are you doing, Nationals fans?

The team’s defense has been the stuff of lowlight reels at multiple points this season, which is a problem (though they did turn a triple play on Friday). Their baserunning is keeping up with the defense, step for step, apparently:

Lane Thomas just got thrown out trying to stretch a triple into an inside-the-park homer. Dave Martinez wants to review it and they may be telling him he was too late?

— Jesse Dougherty (@dougherty_jesse) May 21, 2022

Mind you, this was in a two-run game.

Juan Soto is in the news, which is usually good except when he’s listed in trade rumors. For a franchise that saw Bryce Harper and Anthony Rendon walk out the door and traded away Max Scherzer and Trea Turner, it’s enough to bring up bad feelings, even if he’s not going anywhere just yet.

Speaking of superstars of the recent past, Turner is coming into town this week with the Dodgers. Washington’s primary return in that deal, Josiah Gray and Keibert Ruiz, will likely be the starting battery on Tuesday, a status check on the state of this Nationals retooling.

Then there are the other lingering questions for the franchise, from ownership to front office and even the manager.

Everyone good?

30. Cincinnati Reds

Record: 12-28
Last Power Ranking: 30

[deep, extended sigh]

This is a depressing bit of history C. Trent Rosecrans dropped on us last week:

A Reds starter didn’t complete six innings in any of their first 31 games of the season, the longest such streak since 1893, when the mound was moved to 60 feet, 6 inches.

The good news is, the Reds are starting to get healthy. Joey Votto was activated off the injured list just as the club got to Toronto and he slugged his first homer of the year on Sunday in front of his hometown crowd. Luis Castillo has taken his stead back in the rotation, at least until a juicy enough offer rolls around.

Also, Hunter Greene is making some strides. First, it was the no-hit outing against the Pirates. He followed it up by pitching well on Saturday night, too. Turns out, even guys capable of throwing well over 100 mph could still benefit from amped-up usage of his breaking ball. Greene has found his slider, and he’s throwing the heck out of it.

Of course, the Reds lost that game, too. They’ve lost a lot of those this year.

(Photo: Billie Weiss / Boston Red Sox via Getty Images)

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It’s been some time since AN last checked in on the status of the sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco, and unfortunately, it’s still plagued with issues. In 2016 it was discovered that the Handel Architects-designed luxury condo tower is sinking and tilting west and that a $100 million foundation stabilization scheme proposed by Simpson Gumpertz & Heger would be needed to prop the building up.

The 645-foot-tall, 58-story tower was completed in 2009 and has been tilting and sinking ever since it opened. The issue stems from the building’s foundations—it sits on a 10-foot-thick concrete pad that it itself is supported by nearly 1,000 reinforced concrete piles driven 90 feet into soft clay. This isn’t an uncommon construction method in the Bay Area (and sections of downtown San Francisco are sinking at about three-quarters of an inch every year) and the Millennium Tower design team still maintains that the building’s issues stem from soil compaction caused by the construction of the adjacent Salesforce Tower.

The Perimeter Pile Upgrade includes the drilling of 52 new steel-and-concrete piles along two elevations. (Courtesy Millennium Towers Homeowners Association)

Whatever the cause, the stabilization plan was intended to course correct the tower, which has tilted 26 inches west at the top since its opening. Simpson Gumpertz & Heger called for 52 new concrete-and-steel piles to be drilled 250 feet into the bedrock below, which would alleviate compressive force on the northern corner of the site and stop both the tilt and sinking.

Unfortunately, while the plan was approved and enacted, work had to be halted last August as it was discovered that the sinking had intensified even with stabilization underway. Although construction started up again and is still ongoing, monitoring data accrued from last year has revealed that the building sank an additional 2 inches and tilted another 10 inches during that period.

In a public hearing on January 6, City Supervisor Aaron Peskin gave an update to the public about the project’s status. At that same meeting, project engineer Ron Hamburger admitted that the team didn’t provide any guidance to its contractor, Shimmick Construction, on how to install the piles or mitigate the impacts of drilling.

With or without work underway at the site, Hamburger said, the tower continues to sink half-an-inch every year and tilt 3 inches. If the tower reaches a tilt of 40 inches from its base position, as it would in only about 5 years at the current rate, the building’s elevators and plumbing could cease operation. (Residents have already complained about odors from the voids formed between the building’s structure and curtain wall, cracks in the basement, and possible seismic stability given the shift.)

Hamburger maintained that finishing the stabilization was the best way to prevent the tower from reaching that terminus, and work is ongoing at the time of writing.

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San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, one of the most-expensive, most luxurious residential buildings in the city, is titling more than two feet north and west. Among the well-to-do residents in the building are Joe Montana and Hunter Pence.

Located on the corner of Fremont and Mission Streets in the Golden City’s financial district, the Millennium Tower stands 645 feet tall. It has 58 stories and is the tallest residential building in San Francisco.

However, it is sinking. Nearly.

According to Architectural Digest, the building continues to title at a rate of three inches a year because it is literally sinking into the ground. It has already sunk between 17 and 18 inches.

In San Francisco, on the corner of Fremont and Mission stands the now famous Millennium Tower. Sources say that this building has tilted more than 22 inches. Therefore, this work is being done here to correct it. pic.twitter.com/jfkC8LK5e1

— Bigg Bidnezz (@Bidnezz) January 10, 2022

Should the problem go unfixed, it could eventually reach a tilt of 40 inches. At that point, the elevators and plumbing would cease to work.

And according to both Architectural Digest and an investigative report from NBC Bay Area, part of the problem is actually work that was done to try and fix the problem last year:

“In a contradiction that defies improbability, data shows that around 10 inches of the overall 26-inch tilt happened last year following work to stop the sinking. NBC Bay Area revealed that drilling logs show a gap of one to four days between drilling and grout installation. In the article, the NBC Bay Area stated, ‘While Millennium fix officials discounted the issue to authorities, some outside experts say such delays in grouting could very well explain the comparatively rapid settlement and tilting that occurred during pile installation in August.’”

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To try and re-fix the sinking and tilting, work is currently being done. 10 steel pipes are being installed to bedrock some 250 feet underneath the tower.

If it is done correctly this time, it would halt and potentially reverse some of the tilting. As of right now, it remains safe.

But if the problem is not fixed quickly and properly, it could be a different story.

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A colossal luxury apartment in San Francisco called the Millennium Tower continues to sink, sloping to one side about three inches per year, reports say. The engineer trying to repair the building has admitted the building’s demise, according to the AP. Ron Hamburger, an engineer, has stated that the 58-story apartment building could reach the point where the elevators and plumbing may stop working if tilting continues at current speed with no fix.

However, Ron Hamburger gave a solution to repair the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. In a hearing last week, Hamburger informed the San Francisco board of directors that the building is still secure. He went on to inform supervisors that placing 18 steel piles in the bedrock will help prevent the building from tipping over and possibly reverse some of it, AP quoted a KNTV television report as saying. Ron Hamburger told overseers that the building continues to “settle at a rate of about half an inch a year and topple at a rate of about three inches a year,” according to the AP.

Millennium Tower has been sinking since 2016, many lawsuits from residents

At the beginning of December last year, the engineers named two possible reasons for the demise in a letter to the general manager of the building. Accordingly, the building’s demise could be due to the vibrations of the ground associated with the pile installation and the removal of excess soil after the piles were installed, The Daily Mail reported. The Millennium Tower opened in 2009 and all 419 apartments were quickly occupied. The apartment building had high-profile residents, including former San Francisco 49er Joe Montana and San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence. The building had sunk 16 inches (40 centimeters) into the soft ground by 2016, creating a 2-inch slope at the base and a 6-inch slope at the top. Residents of the apartment building were informed of the demise in 2016 and many lawsuits have been filed since then.

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This September 26, 2016 photo shows the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. (AP Photo / Eric Risberg, File)

The Millennium Tower in San Francisco continues to sink, leaning about three inches a year, said the engineer in charge of repairing the troubled building.

Ron Hamburger said the luxury building’s slenderness at the current speed could reach a 40-inch slope, which would be the point where the elevators and plumbing might stop working, in just a few years without repair.

Hamburger told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an update hearing last week that the building would remain secure and that installing 18 steel piles underground was the best way to stop the tipping and possibly reverse some of it, reported KNTV TV.

“The building continues to rise at a rate of about half an inch a year and lean at a rate of about three inches a year,” he told supervisors last week. “It does this regardless of whether we work on site or not.”

The 58-story tower opened to fanfare in 2009 and all 419 apartments quickly sold out. High profile residents included former San Francisco 49er Joe Montana, late venture capitalist Tom Perkins, and Giants outfielder Hunter Pence.

But by 2016, the building had sunk four inches into the soft ground and landfill of San Francisco’s dense financial district. It was also sloped, creating a 5 cm slope at the base and a 6 inch (15 cm) slope at the top. Local residents sued the developer and designers.

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By Jessica Wolfrom

Examiner employee author

The city’s sidewalks have started to buckle, crack, and slope in one of the newest neighborhoods in San Francisco, creating stumbling blocks for pedestrians and frustrating local residents forced to navigate the city’s uneven sidewalk.

Sidewalks in some blocks of the Mission Bay neighborhood have sunk 10 to 15 centimeters and in some places even as much as 30 centimeters deep, KPIX first reported.

But not only the sunken sidewalks of the quarter are shifting in this densely built-up area. Almost three kilometers away in SOMA, the tilting Millennium Tower also struggles to balance on the sinking floor that bears the building’s multi-story weight.

A possible culprit could be climate change. As a historic drought continues to dry out the state, it can also worsen the subsidence or subsidence of the soil surface as the city’s groundwater, which usually flows from higher elevations like Twin Peaks or Bernal Heights into the sediments below the lower districts, becomes a trickle slowed down.

“When there is a lot of rainfall, the water goes into the clay. It’s slow, but it builds up the water table, ”said Lawrence Karp, a geotechnical engineer from the Bay Area. “In periods of drought, as we have had for a long time, the water table sinks … and the clay thickens.”

As soft clay solidifies from the loss of groundwater, its weight increases, causing it to carry away structures on top, including the sidewalks and streets of Mission Bay.

The redeveloped waterfront neighborhood was built over an old railway station and reclaimed landfill that historically served as a landfill for industrial waste, including the burned remains of the 1906 earthquake.

Today it is home to a sprawling, state-of-the-art medical campus, high-rise apartment buildings, a hotel, school, and the recently completed Chase Center.

But the sidewalks here have become a dangerous headache for residents and local businesses alike. The gap in front of Cafe Réveille on Long Bridge Street is so steep that two ramps, bright yellow paint and whimsical signs point the way into the cafe and warn the guests: “Please watch your step!”

A man walks past a “Watch your Step” sign on Friday, September 24, 2021, alerting customers to a step from a sinking sidewalk outside Cafe Reveille in Mission Bay. (Kevin N. Hume / The Examiner)

It wasn’t always that bad. “There’s been a big change in the last couple of months,” says Aaron Nelson, barista at Cafe Réveille.

Others say the sinking sidewalks are old news. “Since we’ve been here, the streets have been sinking,” said long-time resident Peggy Fahnestock, who moved to Mission Bay in 2009.

A few years ago, a member of her hiking group stumbled in front of Café Réveille and broke his arm. “It’s not been that bad for a long time,” said Fahnestock, board member of the neighborhood association. “I tripped and fell out there … you have to be careful where you go.”

While more research is needed to draw concrete conclusions about the links between the drought and the sloping sidewalks, scientists don’t think this is surprising given the conditions.

“From a scientific point of view, we don’t have any evidence yet, but we do know that (this) process happened elsewhere,” said Manoochehr Shirzaei, a professor of geophysics and remote sensing at Virginia Tech University who did the subsidence in the Bay Area examined in detail. “When we change something in any part of the hydrological system, the chain of events begins,” he said, calling the city’s groundwater a “connected system”.

And at the moment this system is under increasing stress from the persistent drought.

“The drought is affecting groundwater by temporarily reducing its natural replenishment from rain and stormwater runoff,” said Will Reisman, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. However, he said, “the total amount of groundwater stored in the aquifer remains large and will be replenished in the wet years that follow.”

Still, water is clear in the minds of many in the town hall. To further protect the city’s water supply, the board of directors unanimously adopted a measure last week that more than doubled the amount of water that new large buildings have to collect and reuse on site.

“This summer of intense drought and terrible forest fires reminds us that the climate crisis is now and will not go away by itself,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. “Although we have zero carbon emissions targets for our city and our world, the reuse and recycling of water is becoming increasingly important to our survival.”

Mission Bay isn’t the only neighborhood suffering from settlement, but it’s one of the newest, which is what makes the crisp infrastructure noteworthy. Other areas built on landfills, like San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Treasure Island, have also declined as the landfill slowly compacts, according to research, making these areas more prone to flooding and sea level rise .

A cyclist rides elevated pavement slabs outside an apartment building along Mission Bay Boulevard North in Mission Bay on Friday, September 24, 2021. (Kevin N. Hume / The Examiner)

Subsidence alone would not cause a building to collapse or a sidewalk collapse, Shirzaei said. What matters, he said, is what is called differential motion, or the uneven speed of subsurface subsidence.

“Differential movements that can seriously damage any infrastructure,” he said. “In fact, there is no man-made structure that can withstand such a load. So, pipelines, concrete pillars, they would all break and eventually lose their integrity. “

So far, however, the buildings in Mission Bay have remained stable because they are built on stilts, Karp said. But for local residents like Fahnestock, the question remains who will pay to repair the damaged sidewalks.

The city said that such corrections fall on local residents. “The maintenance of the walkways is the responsibility of the adjacent property owners as per state and city regulations,” said Rachel Gordon, Public Works spokeswoman. “Public Works inspects the sidewalks and notifies property owners if a problem needs to be addressed.”

The goal, Gordon said, is not a punishment, but a safe path for pedestrians.

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A pedestrian walks across raised pavement slabs outside an apartment building along Mission Bay Boulevard North in Mission Bay on Friday, September 24, 2021. (Kevin N. Hume / The Examiner)

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The major construction work to prevent the beleaguered Millennium Tower of San Francisco from sinking further into the earth was stopped after the building suddenly sank another centimeters within a few weeks, as was first reported by NBC Bay Area.

The $ 100 million post upgrade project began in November and was seen as the definitive solution to the leaning building problems after a 2018 inspection found the northwest corner at least 18 inches into the bay fill in the streets Mission and Fremont had sunk.

The repair has been likened to putting a bumper jack next to a flat tire and involves installing 250 foot stakes along the north and west sides of the tower that will be tied to the original foundation under the sidewalk.

This plan has now been put on hold after the unexpected decline in recent weeks.

After 39 of the 52 stakes, something “went seriously wrong,” the NBC report said. This alleged one inch sudden drop on the Fremont Street side came after crews reportedly drilled halfway to bedrock to install new piles and meant 5 inches of lean on the 58th floor.

Simpson Gumpertz Heger’s project lead engineer, Ronald Hamburger, told SFGATE on Tuesday that “surveillance has revealed an increased rate of subsidence associated with the pile installation as we seek to understand the mechanisms associated with the increased rate of settlement and the means available to mitigate it to understand better.”

The news marks the newest problem in five years of upheaval and concern for the residents of the luxury building.

The blue-gray, glass modernist tower, which was completed in 2009 at 301 Mission Street, is the tallest residential building in the city and has received numerous engineering awards for its construction.

In May 2016, residents of the 58-story skyscraper were informed that the main tower that housed their luxury apartments was sinking. The foundation of the 301 Mission, unlike other towers in the city center, was built in deep, dense sand, but not in bedrock. (Although many other large downtown buildings were also built the same way, including the Embarcadero Center, SFMOMA, the Marriott, and 101 California.)

The blame game and many, many lawsuits began.

The building’s community of owners sued prime contractor Webcor and property developer Millennium Partners. The city of San Francisco also filed a lawsuit against the tower’s developers. The developer blamed the problem on the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which was responsible for building the neighboring Transbay Transit Center. All of the lawsuits were later combined into a global agreement. The current fix on the tower is paid in part as part of the settlement.

In 2018, when the sink had increased to 18 inches by a 14-inch slope, local residents reported hearing various “creaking noises” and then a “creaking” sound around 2:30 am on the morning of September 8, 2018.

The next day, a resident of a corner apartment found the 36th. Concern that the creaking, popping, and popping were another symptom of structural failure grew. A report commissioned by the tower’s managers blamed an “outside impact” for the crack, but gave no indication of what might have hit the window.

Finally, later that year, a solution to the slope of the damaged building was proposed and approved by Hamburger at Simpson Gumpertz Heger.

“The building has not suffered any material damage and it remains completely safe,” Hamburger told SFGATE. “As soon as the pile installation is complete and the load has been transferred to the new piles, the building will see a significant improvement and will absorb some of the tilts that have occurred over the years.”

NBC reports that since the newly observed 1-inch dip, the tower’s homeowners’ association told residents this week that further stake installation has been put on hold in the face of “an increased settlement rate” and an “overuse of caution” engineers are trying to better address the cause to understand.

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By Abigail Sterling and Max Darrow

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Construction work on the leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco came to a standstill at the end of August because it caused the tower to sink even further. Now it seems that some of this damage could have been avoided.

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Construction is partially back on track with some test drilling underway this week. Engineers plan to drill just two housings using a modified technique that they say causes less vibration.

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“Millennium Partners wanted to finish it off,” said Robert Pyke, a geotechnician and early critic of the current so-called “perimeter pile upgrade.” He says the $ 100 million plan to prop up the sinking tower should have been halted months earlier.

“Of course, it was clear by the end of June that the laying of the pipes and piles would result in additional settlement,” said Pyke.

KPIX asked him to review the engineering logs and internal emails received from KPIX 5. A graph created by the team shows that the accelerated sinking began in mid-May, but work on the project continued through June and July.

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In an email dated July 29th, the city’s Engineering Design Review Team (EDRT), tasked with overseeing the project, warned construction officials, “The design team has proposed to the 301 Mission Homeowners Association that they install 36 Customs along Mission Street “, but …” this proposal was not implemented and the project is progressing. “

On August 4th, chief engineer Ron Hamburger finally confirmed that “the project has imposed a voluntary moratorium” on the installation of 36-inch enclosures.

But the wells continued in smaller 24-inch piles until August 23, when the Millennium Tower’s general manager announced a two to four week break in construction.

“I owe the EDRT for putting the pressure on, but they shouldn’t have. As I said, any responsible engineer should have stopped by the end of June, ”said Pyke.

Pyke believes the two-month construction work did more damage.

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“Another half to three-quarters of an inch settlement,” said Pyke.

He says the continued drilling may have exacerbated a sewage problem in the luxury skyscraper, described in an August 26 email as “clogged third-floor kitchens.”

“Even a small change in the slope can disrupt the piping for both sewage and sewage,” said Pyke.

In a statement to KPIX, chief engineer Ron Hamburger admitted that some of the sinking and tipping could have been avoided by an earlier construction freeze. In a letter to building authorities, he also admitted that the new test wells that began this week could cause even more subsidence. However, he insists that this does not affect the security of the building.

But one thing is certain: all of the problems on 301 Mission Street appear to be affecting property values. We found ten 10 condos available for sale, all at discounted prices. Zillow estimates that a luxury home priced at $ 1.75 million was worth about $ 1 million more just five years ago.

Some devices have been on the market for months. Unit 14H for a bargain of $ 899,000 has been on sale for almost a year.

Pyke believes concerns about property value could be a reason why the Millennium Tower Association pushed for it to continue.

“That would benefit the existing homeowners and the homeowners association, because after completion and construction there is no question that property values ​​will rise again,” says Pyke.

The Millennium Tower Association, which represents homeowners, still doesn’t comment. Interestingly, however, we found an online presentation Hamburger made to students at the University of Minnesota in February that appears to confirm that real estate values ​​are at the fore. In it Hamburger points out: “There is no structural reason why the building needs to be upgraded. Homeowners needed extensive retrofitting to “upgrade” their units.

No real estate expert wanted to be on record for this story. But one of them pulled up current data for us showing that 13 advertisements in the building have either expired or been taken off the market since January.

Ron Hamburger full statement on KPIX 5:

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“While part of the subsidence and tilting of the last few months could have been avoided by an earlier construction stop, neither the safety nor the functionality of the building was impaired and the project team gained valuable knowledge about the causes of this subsidence as construction progressed. This puts us in a better position to mitigate these effects as the project progresses. The day I recommended stopping the 36-inch pile installation, the Millennium Tower HOA instructed the contractor to stop as recommended. ”

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This September 26, 2016 photo shows the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. A $ 100 million fix to keep the San Francisco luxury skyscraper from sinking and toppling even more is suspended while engineers try to figure out why the building fell another inch during the repair.

On this September 26, 2016, file photo, independent soil engineers are installing data collection equipment and taking soil samples outside of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. A $ 100 million fix to keep the San Francisco luxury skyscraper from sinking and toppling even more is suspended while engineers try to figure out why the building fell another inch during the repair.

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SAN FRANCISCO – A $ 100 million fix to prevent a luxury San Francisco skyscraper from sinking and tipping even more is suspended while engineers try to figure out why the building fell another 2.5 centimeters during the repair .

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Doug Elmets, spokesman for the Millennium Tower, said in a statement that the pile installation to reinforce the building’s foundation has been suspended for two to four weeks in an attempt to understand why the “increased settlement rate and means available to mitigate it” is .

Elmets said the building was safe, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.

The 58-story tower opened to fanfare in 2009 and all 419 apartments quickly sold out. Celebrity residents included former San Francisco 49er Joe Montana, late venture capitalist Tom Perkins, and Giants outfielder Hunter Pence.

But by 2016, the building had sunk four inches into the soft ground and landfill of San Francisco’s dense financial district. It was also sloped, creating a 5 cm slope at the base and a 15 cm slope at the top. Local residents sued the developer and designers.

A confidential agreement reached with homeowners last year included $ 100 million to install 52 63,500 kilograms of concrete piles to anchor the building 76 meters into the bedrock. Piles provide foundation support.

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