![]() Since 1997 it has expanded rapidly, growing its membership organically as well as through mergers and acquisitions. Health Care Service, now the nation's fourth-largest health insurance company, has certainly made good on its intentions to grow. Saliga said most corporate expansions usually involve an annex near the main building or a tower erected nearby that allows one building to be connected to another through a bridge much like the famous Wrigley Building, she said. "They may alter an attic space or add a couple of stories but there is generally not an expansion like this in a major landmark building," Saliga said of the Blue Cross headquarters. It was pretty good planning on their part that they saw such growth in their future." "This is a very unusual thing to do and I cannot think of another case. "It is very unusual for a company to prepare for growth several years ahead of time," said Pauline Saliga, director of the Society of Architectural Historians in Chicago. Thus, the skyscraper will reach its designed height of 57 stories upon completion in 2010. The structure was originally designed by Chicago architect James Goettsch to accommodate 24 additional stories to meet an expected need for more office space, the insurer said. The building is now 466 feet high from its base and will rise to an estimated 796 feet. Health Care Service built it in 1997 at a cost of $233 million, engineering it so it would have the ability to add to the top if expansion warranted. The existing 33-story building already has 30 floors above ground on prime real estate located just east of Aon Center on the northern edge of Grant Park. Randolph, the dual headquarters of the Illinois Blue Cross division and Health Care Service, pending approval of various permits. In an unusual corporate expansion, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois will add 24 floors on the top of its headquarters on East Randolph Street to accommodate the health insurer's rapid growth.Īt a cost of $270 million, Health Care Service Corp., parent of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, said Tuesday that construction will begin early next year at 300 E. more.link in my sig.24 more stories coming to Blue Cross building You're not crazy, I agree with you, :haha: ! My whole point is that specific phrasing applies to numerous buildings. Technically yes, once it's done it will be the tallest building built in the US since the Sears Tower. Which I wouldn't because they only seem taller due to spires, and that shouldn't count. Unless you count the Conde Nast Building (1999) or the New York Times Building (2007) both in New York. Nothing in the US has been built that was taller than the US Bank Tower since the US Bank Tower was finished, but Trump will be taller (actually I think it already is). It would then have been the tallest building built in the US since the Sears Tower.Ī more accurate statement would be, the Trump Tower will be the tallest building built in the USA since the US Bank Tower, because that would be true. ![]() Then the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, also build in 1989 (I'm assuming after the AT&T Corporate Center but I'm not sure). Take the AT&T Corporate Center in Chicago, it was built in 1989 and the tallest building built in the US since the Sears Tower. Numerous buildings would have held that title for a little while, but I'll focus on just two. ![]() I mean, other buildings have been built since the Sears Tower in the US that were "the tallest building built since the Sears Tower". I understand that, it was just the phrasing of it. What matters is that out of all the skyscrapers built in this country since Sears was completed, Trump beats all of them in size. :shrug: This *is* the tallest building built in the US *since* the Sears Tower. I don't know what's confusing about what he said.
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