Storm Failures Trigger Mandatory Inspection for 71 Newer SF High-Rises

More than 70 of San Francisco’s tallest buildings – which had been exempt from window inspections for decades under city law – must now have complete façade checks under a mayor’s emergency order issued after last month’s string of high-rise window failures.

The order comes less than a week after NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit first reported that three of the six buildings hit by window failures were post-1998 high-rises that were previously exempt from façade inspections for the first 30 years after being built.

One of those exempt buildings was Salesforce East, completed in 2015. That building, at 350 Mission Street, had at least 19 windows failed during recent wind

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