Revised SF Millennium Tower's sinking fix includes using fewer support piles: Report

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There are new developments in San Francisco's years-long saga with the sinking Millennium Tower, across the street from the Salesforce tower on Mission Street.

According to the Chronicle, engineers now have a new plan to anchor the luxury high-rise's foundation to the bedrock, 250 feet underground.
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18 concrete columns -- known as piles -- would be used instead of the 52 originally proposed.

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Engineers believe it will level out the weight and stop the building from tilting any further.
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City inspectors say the tower has tilted yet another inch, but remains safe.

A Board of Supervisors subcommittee will get an update on the situation next Thursday, January 6.

VIDEO: San Francisco's Millennium Tower is leaning, sinking and now cracking