Category: CEQA

With Councilman Mitch O’Farrell in a political race for his life against challenger Hugo Soto-Martinez, we reached out to both for a position statement on the Millennium Hollywood (aka Hollywood Center) skyscrapers on the earthquake fault project.

Only Mr. Soto-Martinez responded. Councilman O’Farrell ignored our requests.

Hugo Soto-Martinez: “There are many problems with the project, including the fact that multiple judges deemed it illegal.… Read the rest

Dear Friends and Supporters:

Please see this fascinating article from San Francisco about Millennium Partners’ ongoing leaning and sinking tower disaster.

It seems the news for Millennium Partners is getting worse.

Yet this is the same developer that LA City Councilmembers Jose Huizar and Mitch Englander, when on the City Council’s Planning & Land Use Management Committee, enthusiastically embraced.… Read the rest

“I want to see that information, I want our experts to see that information, they need to produce that information” says San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin in this recent NBC story.

Millennium’s engineer said there was no requirement to submit construction logs to the building department.

Thickening the plot, San Francisco’s Engineering Review Panel requested specific logs months ago. … Read the rest

As we near the end of a challenging year, we wish to thank all of our StopTheMillennium supporters. Together we have — so far — kept our community safer, slowed down LA City Hall’s law breaking, and shined a bright light on Hollywood Center, a proposed skyscraper project on top of an earthquake fault that is symptomatic of everything sick in the body politic of Los Angeles.… Read the rest

Wow!  We aren’t math majors, but that is a rate of 22.8 inches a year! Still, developer Millennium Partners says all is hunky dory in SF. It’s the same whistling past the graveyard that they are doing in Hollywood.

Why do Mayor Garcetti and Councilman O’Farrell tolerate Millennium’s false claims of no earthquake dangers at the Hollywood Center site?… Read the rest

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Your support helps us continue the fight.

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Dear Friends and Supporters:

The Millennium Hollywood Center battle goes on.

The City has kept us and the public in the dark for most of the past year. That is rarely a good sign.

But the media continue to show interest in the Millennium Hollywood and Millennium Leaning Tower of San Francisco scandals.… Read the rest

Please see this fascinating article from renowned urban planning expert and authority on economic, political and social trends, Joel Kotkin. It discusses some of the maladies that have allowed a project as illegal and dangerous as Hollywood Center to fester for years.

Some highlights:

• “Garcetti seemed even more determined than his predecessors not to offend powerful interests.

Here is new, damning video on the current “fix” developer Millennium Partners are in with their San Francisco leaning and sinking tower.

Experts say Millennium’s method to attempt to halt their sinking fortunes was dangerous and crazy.

Pyke’s main concern: the so-called “perimeter pile upgrade” calls for connecting only the sinking north and west side of the building to bedrock, leaving the south and east side unconnected.… Read the rest

What is happening with the Millennium Hollywood Center project?

We’ve been asking.

Documents obtained from City Hall raise troubling questions.  The trench recently dug on the project’s east site appears not to have gone deep enough to expose the full active earthquake fault layer.

On the west site, the California Geological Survey identified an even more dangerous inclined fault (See map on p.… Read the rest