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Millennium Tower Developers Rethink Plans For Separate 45-Story Condo Project's Anchor-Less Design

KCBS_740 SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- The development company that's in the middle of a controversy over its sinking high rise in San Francisco is re-drawing its foundation plan for another tower it's currently building.

KCBS and Chronicle Insider Phil Matier reports in Wednesday's Matier and Ross column that Millennium Partners - the group behind the Millennium Tower - has altered its building plans for a 45 story condo project at Third and Mission.

The foundation of that building will now be anchored by concrete piles in bedrock.

The original plan called for it to be built atop a four story basement garage with no concrete piles.

Concrete piles were used in the building of the Millennium Tower - but they're not anchored in bedrock - and the tower has sunk 16 inches and tilted two since its opening.

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