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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by carleverett on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:04PM (#12206752)
I was wondering the same thing, but Google street view (taken in 2014) doesn't show any evidence of such a big dip. How is that possible?? The only thing I can think of is that it's more of a "sag," where the middle has sunk 18" but the edges haven't moved much, but I'm not really satisfied with that theory.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Millennium+Tower+San+Franc...

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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by dpark on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:38PM (#12206907)
It's extremely unlikely that the building is sinking and the surrounding area is stable. More likely the building is pulling the entire area down, so it's probably hard to detect as a pedestrian.
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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by Naritai on Monday August 01, 2016 @08:18PM (#12207085)
A commenter upstream reports seeing the sidewalk being repaired multiple times throughout the last 10 years as well.
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