An inch apart: new troubles for San Francisco’s Millennium Tower

Engineer overseeing the luxury tower's retrofit discovered the space between it and a smaller building had widened by an inch

San Francisco's troubled Millennium Tower, which has continued to sink despite multimillion dollar efforts to correct it, has developed yet another problem.

The luxury tower, popular among star athletes and retired Google employees before the tilting issues were widely publicized, has sunk 18in since its construction was completed in 2009 and has a 26in tilt at the top. Now, the engineer overseeing the retrofit of the tower has said the movement caused the formation of a one-inch gap between the building and a smaller 12-story adjacent structure.