Millennium Tower

Last spring, a window at San Francisco’s Millennium Tower blew out of its frame during a wind storm raising questions and concerns about safety of the city’s high rise buildings in bad weather. The incident, and half a dozen others, triggered calls for inspections, and changes. But as NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken explains, not much appears...

A year after an open window broke in high winds at the troubled Millennium Tower, building officials recently told the city they have installed stronger equipment to better secure windows in, so far, 29 of the high-rise’s 419 units.

NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken, who’s been exposing the problems at the San Francisco Millennium Tower for years, about the progress — or lack thereof — when it comes for inspections and changes. 

The engineer of the so-called fix of the troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco recently acknowledged there’s been less than expected tilt improvement over the first six months of the $120 million project’s completion. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports. 

The engineer of the so-called fix of the troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco recently acknowledged there’s been less than expected tilt improvement over the first six months of the $120 million project’s completion.

It’s been six months since San Francisco’s Millennium Tower was fully supported to stop it from sinking and leaning. While the project was hailed as an immediate success, the high-rise now appears to be sinking in the middle. Raj Mathai speaks with Jaxon Van Derbeken on this.

With work finally over on the so-called fix of the Millennium Tower, residents are now saddled with a $6.8 million bill out of an estimated $20 million in cost overruns on the long delayed and troubled retrofit project.

New monitoring data shows that while the $100 million Millennium Tower fix appears to have stopped further sinking and tilting, the building is not reversing the lean at the rate predicted by engineers.  

New monitoring data shows that while the $100 million Millennium Tower fix appears to have stopped further sinking and tilting, the building is not reversing the lean at the rate predicted by engineers.  Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

The sinking and leaning Millennium Tower may now be partly supported to bedrock, but a glass industry veteran says he is concerned about the ongoing risk from its windows after two failed during a windstorm earlier this year.

San Francisco’s millennium tower has been sinking and leaning for years, and though it appears further leaning and sinking has stopped, there’s a different concern: the windows. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.