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[2] [3] Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world upon its completion, and remained the tallest building in the United States until May 10, 2013. [4] The second, third, and fourth-tallest buildings in Chicago are the Trump International Hotel & Tower, St Regis Chicago, and the Aon Center, respectively. Of the ten tallest buildings in ...
MapQuest's original services were mapping (referred to as "Interactive Atlas") and driving directions (called "TripQuest"). [ 5 ] Sensing the emerging demand for spatial applications on the Internet, and with crippling network latency in Lancaster, the executive team of Barry Glick and Perry Evans moved MapQuest to the up-and-coming LoDo area ...
The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it opened in 1973 as the world's tallest ...
Chicago, Illinois (WGN) - The Willis Tower has a new owner. The Blackstone Group is a private real estate investment team. Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII agreed to pay $1.3 billion for the tower.
Some international news sources later claimed that the planned tower height was reduced to 900 feet (274.3 m) after the original plans called for a 150-story building that would reach 2,000 feet (609.6 m). [83] [84] These claims are supported by computer renderings from 1999 of the proposed skyscraper, shown in the Chicago Tribune in 2005. [85]
At 695 feet (212 meters), 330 North Wabash is the second-tallest building by Mies van der Rohe, the tallest being the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower at Toronto-Dominion Centre. It was his last American building. [2] The building's original corporate namesake no longer owns nor has offices in the building. IBM sold IBM Plaza to the Blackstone Group ...
An agreement was reached for United Continental Holdings to lease an additional 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) at Chicago's Willis Tower, joining the airline's operations center which leased an initial 470,000 square feet (44,000 m 2) in 2010. The company vacated the majority of their offices at 77 W. Wacker with the naming future of the ...
333 South Wabash (formerly CNA Center, nicknamed "Big Red") now the "Northern Trust Tower" [2] is a 600-ft (183 m), 44-story skyscraper located at 333 South Wabash Avenue in the central business district of Chicago, Illinois.