Thus, the Ohio Street entrance to the tower is the complex's back door with a concourse-style passageway on the second level running over Scioto Street (the north-south alley between Pennsylvania and Meridian) to connect the skyscraper (and its attached parking garage along Pennsylvania Street) to the main entrance in the original 1960 American National Bank Building at 111 Monument Circle.On Saturday, May 20, Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, hosted a Community Day in downtown Indianapolis to celebrate the official grand opening of Salesforce Tower and to announce its commitment to workforce development and continued growth in Indianapolis. This was done mainly to secure the prestigious Monument Circle address for the new tower, which rises between Ohio Street and Wabash Street (the east-west alley between Market and Ohio). Ground was broken and construction began in 1988 on the newly designated Bank One Center Tower which was to be integrated with AFNB's existing headquarters complex on Monument Circle and adjacent Market Street. McKinney became chairman of Bank One's Indiana operations and tower planning picked up momentum. Land was slowly being assembled for the building, with several predecessor structures along Ohio Street and Pennsylvania Street being demolished in those years and the early 1980s to clear the way for what McKinney hoped would soon be Indiana's tallest office tower.īefore construction of the building began, American Fletcher became the first major Indianapolis bank holding company to be sold to an out-of-state financial institution, agreeing in the spring of 1986 to merge with Ohio's rapidly growing Bank One Corporation. McKinney, Jr., chairman of American Fletcher Corporation, the holding company for American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Company (AFNB), which at the time was Indiana's largest financial institution, to allow for consolidation and expansion of his company's headquarters. The tower was originally conceived in the late 1970s by Frank E. Views of Monument Circle and the immediate downtown area can be seem from floors 2, 7, and 10 in the common areas on the Circle side of the complex. The tower has no official observation deck however views of the City can be seen in the common areas on floors 21, 27, 31, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 41, 43, and 44 on the Ohio Street side (Tower side) of the complex. Map of Chase Tower 1 E Ohio St Indianapolis IN 46204 USA.Designed by KlingStubbins, the Chase Tower is the 44th tallest building in the United States and 230th tallest in the world. The other mast is merely an architectural decoration. While the building has two spires of equal height, only one of them is functional as a transmission antenna. It is the headquarters for Chase's (formerly Bank One's) Indiana operations. The building's twin spires pierce 830 feet (250 m) into the Indianapolis skyline, while the 49 floors of office and retail space and 2 floors above that store building equipment below peak at the 700 feet (214 m) roof. It surpassed the AUL Tower (now OneAmerica Tower) in Indianapolis for the distinction. Opened in 1990 near Monument Circle in Indianapolis, the Salesforce Tower (formerly known as the Bank One Tower, then the Chase Tower, and originally conceived as American Fletcher Tower) is the tallest building in the U.S.
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