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

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

If anyone thought Millennium’s project was asleep or dead, they are wrong. We are actively fighting it, and they are actively moving forward as described in our last post. 

On March 12, 2021, we filed a protective lawsuit in order to ensure that the City and Millennium could not pull a fast one.… Read the rest

The above photo captures what a Los Angeles resident was met with when she saw what was going on at the Millennium project site and stopped to take some pics.

Reports are coming in from our supporters about the Hollywood Center site being fenced.   Bulldozers and excavators are at work now, apparently on a new earthquake fault trench as seen in the above and below photos.… Read the rest

Los Angeles residents have waited a very long time to see some justice when it comes to the corruption taking place by city officials.   Since the FBI finally latched on to what citizens have been screaming about for years, residents may see yesterday’s federal court ruling as a sign of things to come.… Read the rest

Like many of you, we have been stonewalled by the City when trying to get answers to our questions regarding the status of the dangerous and illegal Hollywood Center Project.

Over the last 45 days or so, our attorney Robert Silverstein has sent letter after letter to City Planner Mindy Nguyen. … Read the rest