Millennium Tower

In another strange twist at San Francisco’s sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, a cast iron pan apparently used to prop open a problem window in an apartment, fell several stories and crashed onto the sidewalk below, narrowly missing a bystander.

NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit obtained the violation notice on Monday, which requires the “unsafe” window condition be immediately rectified and an engineering report be completed by Tuesday.

High winds in downtown San Francisco Sunday caused a window to shatter on the 41st floor of the Millennium Tower, sending shattered glass raining down.

Strong winds have broken a window on the 41st floor of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, showering glass below and causing the closure of Salesforce Park and a portion of Fremont Street, which has since reopened. Sergio Quintana reports.

A San Francisco judge announced a settlement Wednesday in the long-running legal battle over the troubled Millennium Tower high-rise – a deal that sources say is on the order of a half-billion dollars.

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A consultant working for the Millennium Tower developer on Tuesday formally submitted his proposed $100 million fix for the tilting and sinking Millennium Tower, a solution that involves floating one corner of the building off a new foundation that will be supported to bedrock.

A consultant working for the Millennium Tower developer on Tuesday formally submitted his proposed $100 million fix for the tilting and sinking Millennium Tower, a solution that involves floating one corner of the building off a new foundation that will be supported to bedrock. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

San Francisco building officials issued yet another violation Tuesday against the Millennium Tower after city-ordered inspection crews found another cracked window at the troubled high-rise. Lili Tan reports.

San Francisco building officials issued yet another violation Tuesday against the Millennium Tower after city-ordered inspection crews found another cracked window at the troubled high-rise.

The Millennium Tower Homeowners Association is balking at the city’s order Thursday to reinstall protective scaffolding that it took down earlier in the day. The city required the sinking and leaning tower to keep the scaffolding in place at the base of the building until a cracked 36th floor window is replaced.

A San Francisco city supervisor who has sought to expose problems at the troubled Millennium Tower was quick to dismiss an engineering firm’s findings that an unknown external impact caused cracking of a 36th floor window over Labor Day.

As two of the city’s most vaunted buildings sink or crack, an earthquake study released Thursday recommended re-inspecting dozens of high-rises and beefing up construction codes for the growing crop of skyscrapers in the booming city.

The sudden crack in a 36th floor window at San Francisco’s Millennium Tower has been determined to be caused by “exterior impact,” according to an investigation report from the Millennium Tower Association.

The sudden crack in a 36th floor window at San Francisco’s Millennium Tower has been determined to be caused by “exterior impact,” according to an investigation report from the Millennium Tower Association.

Crews began work to shore up two cracked support beams that have shuttered a celebrated and newly opened $2 billion San Francisco transit center, authorities said Thursday.

The agency that built the $2.2 billion Transbay terminal, next to the tilting Millennium Tower, insisted Monday that even though a judge ordered that it pay “a fraction” of Tower’s legal bills, it doesn’t mean the agency and San Francisco taxpayers will have to foot the entire estimated half billion dollar cost to fix the troubled high rise.

In a strange twist, a judge has found that the Transbay Joint Powers Authority – the public agency responsible for the $2.2 billion Transbay Transit Center next to sinking Millennium Tower – has the “duty to defend” against hundreds of millions of dollars in construction defect claims over the troubled building.

A judge has decided who could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in claims over faulty construction to the Millennium Tower.

The city had just declared the Millennium Tower safe from the very concern that is now a suspected cause in the sudden crack in a 36th floor window at the luxury high rise, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.