Sentences with phrase «sears tower»

Thirty years after the retailer moved its offices to the iconic Sears Tower, the old campus remains largely a ghost town.

Even the Sears tower has been renamed after an insurance broker.

The transaction is a strong indicator that Sears Tower, which was rumored last fall to be headed for a foreclosure on its $ 850 million mortgage, remains an attractive business location.

In a deal that gives a boost to the battered downtown Chicago office market, Rush Prudential Health Plans will be taking a big chunk of space at Sears Tower, consolidating executive and administrative offices downtown and in Rosemont.

With that lease and others, Sears Tower has about 100,000 square feet of deals, despite the slow leasing market.

The tower, completed in 1973 as the Sears Tower, is 84 percent leased, down 1 percent from March 2009, when Willis announced it had acquired naming rights.

BRIDGE LEAVING SEARS TOWER: Bridge Finance Group LLC will relocate from the Sears Tower to 82,683 square feet on the top three floors of 155 W. Wacker Drive, a new building being developed by the John Buck Co..

Sears Tower retains SPSS: After testing the market on a possible move of its executive offices from Sears Tower, SPSS Inc. has signed a new six - year lease for 41,500 square feet in the skyscraper at 233 S. Wacker Drive.

The statistical software company, which had subleased the space, is Sears Tower's third key tenant renewal in recent weeks, said Menahem Deitcher, senior vice president with CB Richard Ellis Inc., which manages the 110 - story building.

Wells Fargo, the No. 2 Chicago lender for the first quarter, issued between $ 300 million and $ 400 million in Chicago - area commercial real estate loans in the first quarter, and Goldman Sachs issued over $ 1 billion, primarily in its role as lead lender in the $ 1.02 billion financing of Willis Tower, the Blackstone - owned iconic skyscraper formerly known as Sears Tower.

In April, CBRE was awarded the management and leasing contract for the 4.5 million sq. ft. Sears Tower in Chicago.

For example, you can look back at an image stored in Photos of, say, a skyscraper you saw during your last trip or a painting seen in a museum and then identify is as the Sears Tower or a Georges Seurat original when you get back home.

The Sears tower

The tsunami that occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958 was 520 m (1,710 ft) high and is the biggest tsunami ever measured, almost 90 m (300 ft) taller than the Sears Tower in Chicago and about 110 m (360 ft) taller than the former World Trade Center in New York.

`... Behind the darkened Sears Tower was the city of Chicago, with lights shining brightly as far as the eye could see.

For one hour the Sears Tower knew what it was like to be Al Gore: A larger than life symbol, blocking our view of reality.»

25 October: The festival «Alexander Calder Day» in Chicago includes a circus parade with the Schlitz forty - horse hitch and the dedications of the motorized Universe at the Sears Tower and the monumental stabile Flamingo at the Federal Center Plaza.

An article on Page 174 this weekend about the artist Kerry James Marshall, who shows the writer Wyatt Mason around derelict areas of his Chicago neighborhood, gives an outdated name for the city's Sears Tower.

Earn Kudos and gain recognition for cornering on two wheels around the Sears Tower in Chicago; power sliding through the ancient streets of Florence, Italy; or maneuvering along the racing line through the slick streets of Edinburgh, Scotland... all while racing some of the most exotic high - performance vehicles available.

High rise hotel with contemporary decor, heart of Chicago - 1/2 mile to Sears Tower, United Center (Chicago Bulls) Harpo Studios...

The Willis Tower (formerly named Sears Tower) is a popular destination for tourists.

Attractive Hotel housed within completely restored 19th - century landmark located in financial district, 7 blocks from Sears Tower...

The Chicago skyline — the Sears Tower, Aon Center, Prudential Plaza, and John Hancock Center jutting above a panorama of other skyscrapers — once triggered a certain sense of serenity in me, reminded me I was home.

The Sears Tower uses nine such tubes, with all the tubes intact to the 50th floor, where the first «setback» occurs — where the face of the building is set back from the face of the floor below it.

Get out the maps: Start at the Sears Tower and unravel it.

The Sears Tower contains enough concrete to build an eight - lane highway five miles long (and a two - lane highway would be...?).

Within the Sears Tower are 25 miles of plumbing, 1,500 miles of electric wiring and 80 miles of elevator cable.

The Sears Tower is in Chicago, a city that while not exceedingly polluted, does have its share of urban grime.

At 1,454 feet, the roof of the Sears Tower stood 86 feet over the world's next tallest building, New York's World Trade Center, completed just one year earlier.

The 1,454 - foot Sears Tower remained the world's tallest building for 23 years, when it was surpassed by the 1,483 - foot tall Petronas Twin Towers in the Malaysian capital city Kuala Lumpur, although there is some debate (mostly sparked by people who live in Chicago!)

Chicago is shown off magnificently as a playground for an irresponsible teen hero: Ferris (Matthew Broderick) drags his friends to Wrigley Field and the Art Institute, high up the Sears Tower — and even to the front of the Von Steuben Day Parade.

Now they're using a radio signal beamed from the top of Sears Tower in Chicago to draw the creatures - and their valuable DNA - to them.

There are just enough «big» beats — a giant wolf leaping at a mid-air helicopter, George using tanks like toys on Michigan Avenue, all the animals climbing the will - always - be-known-as-to-me Sears Tower — to keep fans engaged, but monster movies should do more than just keep you engaged.

Flight Simulator, for whatever reason, is anchored around a model of Chicago, and one of our exercises to demonstrate our accuracy was to fly our planes into Sears Tower (now Willis Tower).

I only bring this up because the Sears Tower has always been a bizarro World Trade Center in my imagination, making the climax of Rampage as tough to watch as its toxic - masculine opener.

Ferris» indulgences comprise of nothing more than trips to a fancy restaurant, the Sears Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and a Cubs game at Wrigley Field.

Good thing evil CEO Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman: Stolen, Rock of Ages) built in some genes that make the transformed creatures respond to a radio signal, and that she just happens to have access to the transmitter atop the Sears Tower in Chicago to send out the call and bring the monsters right there and somehow collect genetic samples from them.

Day 1: SkyDeck with photos in glass boxes (formerly known as the Sears Tower) + afternoon Architectural Boat Tour and Dinner in downtown

So far we have planned to go to the Sears Tower, the «Bean,» some shopping (duh!)

, the Willis Tower Skydeck (I haven't been to the building since it was named the Sears Tower and there weren't glass - bottom observation decks), the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, and plenty of beer - related stops at bars and breweries.

(Hubby worked in the Sears Tower a few years and whenever we visit we must indulge.)

The first night, we went to the Skydeck at the Willis Tower (used to be the Sears Tower, but a bunch of lawyers threw down some cash and they got to rename it anything they wanted... so you knew it wasn't going to be anything exciting, Ha!).

In November Zac Vawter climbed to the top of Chicago's Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) on a bionic leg controlled by his thoughts.

Sears Tower in Chicago to be painted silver?

Some of the rooms offer spectacular views of Michigan Ave, the Museum Campus, Buckingham Fountain, Lake Michigan, the Sears Tower, and Downtown Chicago.

And Willis Tower is amazing, although it will always be the Sears Tower to me (as they just changed the name within the past few years or so).

What about the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower, the Chrysler Building?

Washington, D.C., is incorporated, Joe DiMaggio makes his major - league debut, the Sears Tower becomes the tallest building in the world, and the first spam email is sent, all on this day.

Mr. Buffett's company has insured Chicago's Sears Tower, now called Willis Tower, backed a $ 1 billion March Madness bracket contest, and twice insured PepsiCo Inc. against the unlikely event that a monkey would pick a series of numbers correctly on national television.

In its heyday in the 1970s, the company forever changed Chicago's skyline by building the iconic, 110 - story Sears Tower, which held the record for the tallest building in the world for more than 25 years.