The president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors said Wednesday that he wants comprehensive window inspections of all downtown high-rises after multiple windows broke at the Salesforce East building and the Millennium Tower during Tuesday’s windstorm.
The latest failures followed earlier breaks at two separate California Street high-rises during recent high wind events.
“We just cannot have it raining glass in San Francisco’s downtown,” said Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. “The miracle is that in these four window failures, nobody has been hurt.”
The 300 block of Mission Street remained closed Wednesday, and glass-fragments could be seen on cordoned off sections of sidewalk.
City records show that