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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by nostromo on Monday August 01, 2016 @08:13PM (#12207057)
It's not without precedent.

In Seattle a cost-cutting method was used to build a 25-story downtown apartment building in 2001.

In 2010 it was found to be flawed and unfixable, and so it was dismantled.

And now there's a new building being built on the site.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/9-year-old-belltown...

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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by dpark on Monday August 01, 2016 @08:16PM (#12207076)
Key there is it was deemed unfixable. $350 MM can do a lot of fixing.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not denying the entire possibility. It's just extremely unlikely, especially given that the tower is currently deemed safe.

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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by spikels on Monday August 01, 2016 @09:00PM (#12207201)
Plus if it turns out to have been caused by the Trans Bay Terminal, they have very deep pockets (they supposedly spent $58 million on a buttress to protect the Millineum Tower). As does the developer, Millennium Partners and the engineering from firm's insurance companies.

This will get fixed. There will just have to be a big fight to see who has to pay.

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