I realize that the developers don’t want to give up on it just yet, but at some point the city is just going to have to condemn the thing.
Right now it seems like the engineers fixing it are saying, “sure it’s a trained pig balancing on a ball in a mud puddle, but if we just stab a few more toothpicks into the mud, it’ll stay upright.” But who knows? Maybe they’ll invent some magical engineering to sink a complete set of pilings from inside a finished basement all the way to the bedrock beneath the clay layer, then lash the building to the new pilings, and it won’t cost more than demolition and rebuilding.
