Millennium Tower
San Francisco's tallest concrete building started sinking and tilting just seven years after opening — and residents say they were never told.
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This 645-foot, blue-gray glass skyscraper at 301 Mission Street made headlines in 2016 when residents learned the tower was both sinking and tilting, triggering lawsuits over repair costs and alleged concealment. The building also skips floors 13 and 44 for superstitious reasons, so its physical 58th floor is labeled the 60th. Tallest concrete structure in the city, designed by Handel Architects for $350 million.
What to look for
- The blue-gray glass late-modernist facade — two towers connected by a 43-foot glass atrium at street level
- The slender profile: each floor is only 14,000 square feet, which makes the height feel more pronounced
- The lean itself — stand at Mission and Fremont and sight up the edge of the tower
Private residential building; exterior-only viewing. Corner of Mission and Fremont Streets, South of Market, downtown San Francisco.
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More to see in San Francisco
- Golden Gate BridgeOpened May 27, 1937 as simultaneously the world's longest and tallest suspension bridge — you can walk the 4,200-foot main span yourself.
- Alcatraz IslandFor 29 years, cold Bay tidal currents did what bars alone could not — make escape nearly impossible.
- Transamerica PyramidAn 853-foot pyramid that ruled San Francisco's skyline for 45 years — still on the Transamerica logo even though the company quietly moved its HQ to Baltimore.
- Golden Gate ParkSan Francisco turned three miles of bare shifting sand dunes into the country's third-busiest urban park — starting from scratch in 1870.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)The West Coast's first museum devoted solely to 20th-century art, now stretched across 170,000 square feet after a 2016 expansion that nearly sextupled public space.
- Alcatraz Federal PenitentiaryA 9-by-5-foot cell surrounded by cold bay currents — the federal government once staked its reputation on the claim that no one could leave.