Sears Tower Renamed Willis Tower

Fumanchewd 16 Jul 09, 01:38

Kind of a "whatever" but growing up in Chicago the Sears Tower is iconic.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_ ... ears_tower

Mayor Richard M. Daley and others will join the building's owners at a ceremony Thursday to officially rename the tower after Willis Group Holdings, a London-based financial services company that secured the naming rights as part an agreement to lease 140,000 square feet of space in the tower.

The building has been known as Sears Tower since it opened in 1973. It's original tenant, Sears Roebuck and Co., moved out in 1992, and a real estate investment group formed in 2004 now owns the 1,450-foot, 110-story skyscraper.

When the renaming was announced in March, a spokesman for Willis Group Holdings said the company understood the "sentimental attraction to the Sears Tower name," but noted the company was bringing hundreds of jobs to the city.

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Mark 16 Jul 09, 01:45

And most people will associate the name with Todd Bridges or Bruce Willis.

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Allstarflyer (Database Editor & Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 01:47

When I think of "Sears Tower", I think of a huge building that dominated the skyline as my family and I would get close to the city going (usually) on the Stevenson towards the city. I also think of a building that's named after an otherwise solid company. When I think of "Willis Tower", I think of a statue of Arnold that has to be somewhere close looking at the tower asking "whatchu talkin' 'bout?".

Allstarflyer (Database Editor & Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 01:48

Like Mark said from the duplicate thread -

Mark wrote:And most people will associate the name with Todd Bridges or Bruce Willis.

AA61hvy 16 Jul 09, 02:12

Allstarflyer wrote:
Mark wrote:And most people will associate the name with Todd Bridges or Bruce Willis.

Whatchu talkin bout?

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PA110 (Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 02:35

MODERATORS NOTE: Looks like a double hit on the 'Submit' key may have inadvertently created duplicate opening threads. I've consolidated responses from both threads into this single thread.

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TUSpilot (Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 02:36

Apparently some are not happy about the renaming. {rotfl}

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NWA742 (Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 02:41

LOL at the wiki

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captoveur 16 Jul 09, 03:02

If we are going to name it the Willis Tower.. Why not just name it the Nakatomi tower? {crazy}

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Fumanchewd 16 Jul 09, 03:46

Sorry for the double post everyone. The server at my work is slow and sometimes it does that, I didn't press twice.

The wiki article is awesome.

The only thing that would piss Chicagoans off more than this is if they renamed Wrigley.

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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 16 Jul 09, 10:12

They can call it whatever the hell they like - show me a picture of that building and I'll say "Sears Tower", every time. I suspect most people will be the same.

The wikipedia page is priceless.

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Zak (netAirspace FAA) 16 Jul 09, 10:18

captoveur wrote:If we are going to name it the Willis Tower.. Why not just name it the Nakatomi tower?

Or they could shoot a "Die Hard Reloaded" at Willis Tower...

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helvknight (Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 11:43

TUSpilot wrote:Apparently some are not happy about the renaming.

We love you too {laugh}

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ANCFlyer (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 13:12

It'll always be Sears Tower to me . . . screw that Willis whatever.

Cowtowing by Daley IMO.

Wiki article is a hoot. LMAO

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DAL764 16 Jul 09, 13:19

ShanwickOceanic wrote:They can call it whatever the hell they like - show me a picture of that building and I'll say "Sears Tower", every time. I suspect most people will be the same.

I know I will always call it "Sears Tower".

Then again, I always call things by their old name, be it stadiums that sold their naming rights to a company (e.g. the former Westfalenstadion in Dortmund, now "Signal-Iduna-Park"), or airports bending over to be politically correct (It's Atlanta-Hartsfield, not Hartsfield-Fücking-Jackson, dammit).

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ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 18 Jul 09, 05:06

Allstarflyer wrote:When I think of "Sears Tower", I think of a huge building that dominated the skyline as my family and I would get close to the city going (usually) on the Stevenson towards the city.

Huh, I think of corduroy pants.

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Airfoilsguy (Founding Member) 20 Jul 09, 22:53

TUSpilot wrote:Apparently some are not happy about the renaming.

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