Talk:Salesforce Tower (Indianapolis)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Former names

The text said:

Chase Tower (formerly known as the First National Bank Tower and Bank One Tower)

This is incorrect. The building was originally designed for American Fletcher National Bank and would have been called the American Fletcher Tower, but they were acquired by Bank One while the building was under construction. It was opened as the Bank One Tower and was called that until JPMorganChase acquired BankOne. --rogerd 15:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Well it's called the Chase Tower now. . .and before that, it was called Bank One Tower. Bank one tower is it's former name. kthnx —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.21.206.124 (talk • contribs) 18:02, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Yea....that's what I said on 14 September 2006. I wasn't disputing the current name, just clarifying the history of the building, and I disputed that it was ever called First National Bank Tower, which is what the article previously said. --rogerd 03:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Third Tallest?

this building is no where near the third tallest in the midwest - not even close. Check out buildings in Chicago - the biggest in Chicago currently 110 (Sears), 80 (Aon) and 100 (Hancock) stories tall (with Trump going up and 150 story Spire)all are far taller, as well as dozens of others taller than this building that wouldn't even stand out in Chicago skyline. Not to mention buildings in Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis and other locations which are far taller. 68.20.180.254 (talk) 05:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. I've removed that sentence from the article. -- Me^Holla! 11:23, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Tallest in the Midwest Outside of Chicago and Cleveland???

Emporis.com says the Chase Tower is tallest too, but the IDS Tower in Minneapolis is 792ft with antennas that rise to 910ft. That's taller than the Chase Tower's 700ft tall roof and 830ft overall height.

Either the information is incorrect, or Minneapolis isn't considered a Midwest city anymore.

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This is per the architectural details, counting spires, but not antennas, so the Chase Tower's 830ft spires are better than IDS's roof height. Reywas92^Talk 22:15, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Levels/Floors

The current instance indicates that there are 52 floors. Depending on perspective, this may be totally accurate or grossly in error. From ground level to the top, with contiguous stairs, there are 51 floors. Non-contiguously, the 51st floor has access to a roof which may or may not count as a floor. From ground level going down (which is more densely packed than the above-ground levels), there are 3 basement levels which seem a bit fuzzy because they are garage levels that include ramps and may or not be complete levels. Were I to count that on terms that I understand, I'd call that 54 floors. But I could see how the 3 basement/garage levels might be considered "1 floor". Then, there's the roof which may or may not count for anything. From the standpoint of "how is a structure measured", I know that I don't know. So, I supply the facts I know and let others decide. Killermist (talk) 22:24, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

It appears that the number of floors generally refers to number of above-ground floors. The Emporis and the Skyscraperpage websites both say 49 floors. The article in the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis says 51 floors, of which 48 are office space; it doesn't say that all 51 are above ground. The Chase Tower's own webpage says it rises 48 floors, which I take to mean the number of floors that can be leased. The floor reached from the non-contiguous staircase that you observed would be the 49th floor. I'd say that 49 floors is the correct number since there are references for it. When you say that are 51 floors reachable by contiguous stairs, I wonder if there are some floor numbers deliberately omitted. For instance, many buildings do not have a 13th floor. Also, if the first floor has twice the height of the other floors, then two flights of stairs would be needed to get to the second floor. Indyguy (talk) 23:01, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Outdated information

As of January 2019, Salesforce Tower now ranks #130 in the United States based on the height of it's spires. If based on architectural height, the building would barely crack the Top 250. Some on wiki use spyscraperpage as their source for building information and others use Emporis. I have found that the information on these sites is about 85% accurate and often outdated compared with skyscrapercenter which is about 99% accurate and most importantly up-to-date. Based on this information I am going to attempt to bring this article up-to-date with some relatively small modifications. Masterscraper (talk) 01:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)