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...Yet Sears has been fading since the Sears Tower claimed the hubristic title of the world’s tallest building in 1973....
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...Jeff Stollenwerck, president of Sears real estate business, is set to leave the company, according to a Reuters report. Before Sears, Stollenwerck worked in Kmart’s real estate division....
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...Completed in 2009, the 98-storey Trump Tower, the city’s second-tallest after the Sears (now Willis) Tower, is by Adrian Smith (who didn’t approve of the later addition of the giant “TRUMP” lettering)....
...From the end of Roaring Twenties America to the bursting of the credit boom in the sands of the Gulf, the Empire State Building (started in 1930), Sears Tower (started in 1970), Petronas Towers (completed...
...The tower built by Sears Roebuck in 1970 was controversially renamed in 2009 when insurer Willis rented three storeys of space and paid for the naming rights....
...But this is changing and the trend was set by insurer Willis when it moved into Chicago’s landmark Sears Tower in 2009....
...The issue has also arisen in the US, where in 2009 Sears surrendered the naming rights to its eponymous Chicago tower....
...Petronas Towers, Malaysia When the Petronas Towers were opened in Kuala Lumpur in 1996 there was a dispute over whether they were taller than the Sears building in Chicago (now called the Willis Tower)...
...The penthouse in a 24-storey tower was on sale for £1.65m and there were plans for a 50-storey project, which aimed to do the same for Birmingham that the Sears Tower did for Chicago....
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