“This is truly a ‘born-in-Chicago’ project, and we are excited to be a part of this amazing architectural wonder,” said Nick Kokonas, co-owner and co-founder of The Alinea Group. The hotel is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2021.īoth condo owners and hotel guests will get offerings from the Alinea Group, the development company said Wednesday. Owners of those will be the first to move into the building.
The building will also include 393 condos that will be called The Residences at The St. Sears naming rights ended in 2003, but the building was still called the Sears Tower for many years. It will also offer a fine dining restaurant with an outdoor terrace, another restaurant and lounge overlooking the Chicago River and a Sky Bar with an outdoor terrace.
Regis Hotel will operate a 191-room hotel in the building. Regis Hotels and Resorts and Alinea Group were announced Wednesday by Magellan Development, the developer of the massive project. The building stands 101 stories tall, making it the third tallest in Chicago behind the Willis (née Sears) Tower and the Trump Tower. This week, Willis Group Holdings, the London insurance brokers, announced it will lease three floors of America's tallest building to house 500 employees. The building’s first residents are due to move in next month. Wacker Drive are still underway and it’s not yet open. The finishing touches on the Jeanne Gang-designed building at 363 E. The skyscraper also has a new partnership with The Alinea Group, owners of Alinea in Lincoln Park, the Grant Achatz-helmed restaurant that routinely is named one of the best in the world.Ĭhicagoans haven’t had much time to commit the name Vista Tower or its original Wanda Vista name to memory. Other well known buildings have undergone name changes - New York City's Pan Am Building became the MetLife Building, and Chicago's Standard Oil Building is now the Aon Center - but the public hasn't always taken to them.CHICAGO - The soaring Vista Tower, the newest addition to Chicago’s famed skyline, now has a new name: St. They can be turned into money and that's what the new owners are doing," she said. "Naming rights are an asset of the building. The London-based Willis Group Holdings got the naming rights as part of its lease agreement with the real estate investment group that owns Sears Tower. The bottom shows the granite marker outside the building covered in black in preparation for the building's name being changed to Willis Tower during a formal ceremony on Thursday, July 16. This combo of photos from March 12, 2009, top, and Monday, July 13, 2009, show pedestrians walking past the Sears Tower in Chicago. Historically, skyscrapers have been businesses unto themselves, acting as a commodity to compete for high rents and tenants, said Carol Willis, founder and director of The Skyscraper Museum in New York. "If we're good corporate citizens and do what we should, hopefully Willis and the tower and Chicago will all become synonymous." bought the building and naming rights were part of the negotiations, to be renamed Willis Tower. "Everybody knows that tower," Willis Group Holdings chief executive Joe Plumeri said ahead of Thursday's ceremony. In 2009 the company Willis Group Holdings Ltd.
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