Category: Development

Dear Friends and Supporters:

See yesterday’s Los Angeles Times article, “Leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco sinking faster, retrofit halted.”

Key take-aways:

One of San Francisco’s tallest skyscrapers, Millennium Tower has sunk since construction began in 2006 and is tilting.

Millennium Partners is attempting to build another skyscraper project in Hollywood, a project that has come under criticism after state geology officials have said there are studies that “strongly support the presence of an active … fault strand entering” the skyscraper site.… Read the rest

NBC News Bay Area investigative reports say attempts to prevent the Millennium Tower San Francisco from sinking and leaning have actually exacerbated the sinking and leaning rates. Work has stopped. Check out the full story here.

Let’s make sure we’re understanding this right. This is the same developer we’re supposed to believe when they say there’s no problem building skyscrapers on a 7.0 earthquake fault in Hollywood?… Read the rest

The Hollywood Center project is a local embarrassment and scandal. It may also implicate Governor Gavin Newsom.

 
On May 20, 2021, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 7 into law. He did so over our objections, and over the Judicial Council of California’s objections. Senate Bill 7 allows Millennium Partners to undercut key environmental protections.… Read the rest

We were the first to highlight the
sinking Millennium San Francisco tower
with the sinking Surfside Florida condo collapse.

See our July 1, 2021 post here.

CNN has now reported on the same alarming linkage:

The CNN report was also picked up and printed across the country.

Our heartfelt condolences go out to all touched by the tragic condo tower collapse in Florida.

 
As one of the Florida survivors said: “A lot of people knew there were problems in that building. This is a disaster that somebody could have stopped before it happened”.
 
“The condo building that collapsed also showed an unusual amount of sinkage”, according to this Wall Street Journal article.… Read the rest

If you live in or around Hollywood and don’t know about Hollywood Heritage and their work, checking them out is a must!

  For nearly forty years, Hollywood Heritage has spearheaded the preservation, restoration and maintenance of early Hollywood treasures.  Their museum is home to archival photographs from the silent era of motion pictures, old Hollywood movie props, historic documents, historic photographs and postcards of the streets, buildings and residences of Hollywood during its golden age. … Read the rest

While we have all been focused on the phony hole (see our last post) that developer Millennium Partners has dug on the site east of Capitol Records, our foes have been digging a different hole into our rights. That one was more out of sight.

A few days ago the State Assembly approved Senate Bill 7.… Read the rest

Take 2 minutes to check out this Channel 11 NEWS clip about the Millennium Hollywood Center fraud.   Listen to our attorney’s amazing quote at the end.

KEEP THE PRESSURE ON CITY HALL & ON THAT NOTE:

The Department of City Planning has re-assigned Millennium’s Hollywood Center Project to different planners for the fourth time now. 

See this April 20, 2021 photo from one of our great supporters. It shows “trenching” on the east parcel of the Hollywood Center site. It looks impressive, right?

Nope. It’s another Millennium/City sham.

We need your voices heard. Please email (see addresses below) objecting to these issues:

1. The California Geological Survey’s scientists apparently get only 1-2 days to observe, not the unfettered access they were supposed to have.… Read the rest

Please see this article from the front page of the Sunday, April 25, 2021 print edition of the LA Times California section. Our attorney, Robert Silverstein, is quoted on page 1 about City Hall’s refusal to protect the public.

Keep the pressure on City Hall. Please send in comments today demanding full trenching of the Hollywood Center west site, and neutral, independent experts to oversee all work.… Read the rest