Good Bye Sears Tower?

[Seolaeria 0]

http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33292

[Barbarossa 51]

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[confused04 14]

Great minds think alike

But seriously...

EWWWW! I don't care, its "The Sears Tower"

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Sacrilege! I think I speak for all the denizens of our fair_{(ly corrupt)} city when I say, they'll have to pay me to call it anything other than what it is.

[Easy Bakes 253]

"what cu talkin bout, Willis"? 1st thing i thought of too.

TV has corrupted us all

Will there big a big picture of Gary Coleman on it?

Ill bet the only people that will call it that are the people that work at

Willis, and quietly say "we are at the sears tower" when people ask were they are.

[Ntq€310 1]

It will always be the sears to me, just like I will always consider our solar system to have a planet named Pluto

But really, this sucks.

[IDS2 3,431]

Do they actually think anyone will call it the Willis Tower besides their own employees? I don't think they'll have much luck getting the word out...nobody cares about Willis co. and naming rights, they're just gonna call it the Sears Tower anyway out of habit and common sense.

For example; the IDS Center is actually the John Buck Tower, the ATT Tower in NYC is the Sony Building or something...so many buildings have different names but nobody cares, the Chrysler Building will always be the Chrysler Building.

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

Originally posted by: IDS2 Do they actually think anyone will call it the Willis Tower besides their own employees? I don't think they'll have much luck getting the word out...nobody cares about Willis co. and naming rights, they're just gonna call it the Sears Tower anyway out of habit and common sense.

For example; the IDS Center is actually the John Buck Tower, the ATT Tower in NYC is the Sony Building or something...so many buildings have different names but nobody cares, the Chrysler Building will always be the Chrysler Building.quote>

 

Hmmm... I'm not sure about that actually. Maybe the first year it will take everyone some getting used to but however Newspapers, Official Documents, Books will all run the name Willis Tower. So as imposible as it may seem, I will give it 5 years of confusion and then everyone will get used to it.

[Lolek11 0]

The Sears Tower it was and always will be as far as I'm concerned !

[Xyloxadoria 1,098]

I dont care what they rename it to. lll still call it by the name it orginally had. The Sears tower will always be "Sears Tower"

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

The title's a little misleading don't you think? I thought they were going to demolish it or something...

[Jezus53 18]

Well, it will be Sears Tower to those who have called it that for a while. As for the everyday folks, it will change quickly. I remeber when Nascar changed it from the Winston Cup to Nextel Cup. I called it Winston for about year. Then I just didn't call it anything because I was upset with how they would say, "Dale Earnhardt Sr. won 7 Nextel Cup Championships..." I would always think, "It was Winston you idiots." But after a while it just became Nextel, and now it's the Sprint Cup, which sounds more like F1 racing than Nascar. But I still call the something sereies Busch Series. Habit I guess. Sorry to bore you on my Nascar story. Continue with you're normal lives.

Originally posted by: ilikehotdogsalot The title's a little misleading don't you think? I thought they were going to demolish it or something...quote>

I could see how you could take it that way.

[diamonddog_74 32]

Does this mean that the Sears Tower lots in the STEX will have to be renamed?

[Duke87 1,070]

Bah. I hate it how people think they can just go and rename landmarks. Everyone knows it as the Sears Tower now, that's what it shall continue to be known as, no matter what anyone wants to try and call it. You can change an official name, but you can't change the common lexicon.

Naming really ought to be a one shot deal. Renaming something, no matter what the circumstances, is stupid.

Though, depending on the local populace, resistance to the change can vary. Everyone in New York, at least who isn't someone that moved here from elsewhere recently, still uses the name "Interborough Parkway" despite the fact that it was renamed the "Jackie Robinson Parkway" 12 years ago now. And, 12 years from now and beyond, everyone will still be calling it the "Triborough Bridge", despite the fact that some stupid politicians thought it might be nice to rename it after Robert F. Kennedy, and actually got it done, including wasting a few million dollars of taxpayer money to change all the signs.

[CityNut_607 5]

I go to school in Chicago, and they have been saying that they are going to change the facade of the building to silver too. To "save on energy." It will look different in no time as well.... oh well, we can't always have things the way we like them. And i will always call it the Sears Tower too.

[Deever 23]

Eh? Who the heck is Willis?

Yet another thing I could add to the list of "things that our outdated encyclopedia at home can no longer give correct/proper info about due to unexpected change in circumstance/s."

[Dark_Jedi06 13]

What an utterly silly name...I doubt even the people working in the building will call it the "Willis Tower". Ninnies from some London-based company trying to mess with our landmarks. Hmph!

[Barbarossa 51]

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[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Originally posted by: kody_bandmaster I go to school in Chicago, and they have been saying that they are going to change the facade of the building to silver too. To "save on energy." It will look different in no time as well.... oh well, we can't always have things the way we like them. And i will always call it the Sears Tower too.quote>

The reskinning is unlikely due to a $50-$60 million price tag, but the artist's rendering was fantastic. I too would like to see it as a silver building. The problem is, the west side would give off a murderous reflection in the afternoon, and cause accidents on the Eisenhower and east-west arterials due to a blinding reflection.

Diamonddog74: Only a true Chicago fan would use Burnham's immortal words for his sig. Nice to see it!

[nofunk 1,934]

Originally posted by: IDS2 Do they actually think anyone will call it the Willis Tower besides their own employees?quote>

 

Nah. The employees won't call it Willis Tower either.

I don't care that they renamed it, mostly because I don't think the name will stick. The Sears Tower is a landmark and people will refer to it by that name for a long time. Heck, I know many Chicagoans who still refer to the Macy's downtown as Marshall Fields. People don't like change.

There's a concert venue here in metro Detroit that used to be named Pine Knob. (Named after an adjoining ski resort.) Then DTE Energy purchased it and renamed it DTE Energy Music Theater. A decade later, people still call it Pine Knob. Of course, that's probably only because "DTE Energy Music Theater" is a mouthful!

And come to think of it, I still call DTE Energy by its old company name: Detroit Edison.

Point is, old habits die hard, and that includes the names we give places. In a generation or so people will call it Willis Tower, but for the foreseeable future, it's Sears.

[CityNut_607 5]

manticorefan: where would i find that rendering??

I saw the Chicago Red Eye today, there was a front page article about the name change. They even had a mock interview with the Sears Tower!! It seems that the building is not happy about it either!!

I was thinking that it could be nick named Big Willy. and when it is wet, it could be called Wet Willy!!

[Brady Baker 1]

I agree with many of you in that I will personally continue to call it the Sears Tower. I am not gonna call my 3D Puzzle of it Willis Tower. Its not even landmarks such as the Macy's in Chicago or music theaters. In this area, there was a smoke shop called Smokes for Less. It changed the name over three years ago and I still call it Smokes for Less. Name changes just satisfy the company or people that change them. To the general public, they will continue to call it what they wish. There is a large mansion here that has a name, I'm sure of that, but everyone knows it as the West Hill Castle. Names are names. Eventually, when the old generation who grew up with them is gone, the new name changes will take effect. But for something as widely known as the Sears Tower, the name change will take effect.

[Barbarossa 51]

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[Odainsaker 2,137]

Oceania is a war with Eurasia; Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Hehe, we have downtown mall known as Rivercenter, which incorporates part of the old art deco Joske's Department Store. All the signage may say "Rivercenter Mall," but the mall is such an amorpohous non-place that few could identify its extents. But everyone still knows where the "old Joske's" store is. Joske's ceased to exist over 20 years ago, I've never even set foot in it under its original name or was living in this city at the time, but it is still the Joske's building, despite what Rivercenter and its signs may say.

It's when the Sears Tower gets renamed "AT&T-Bank of America-Xinhua Yinhang Synergy Corporate Plaza and Disney Chicagoland Adventure Mall GmbH" that we best take pause.

[CityNut_607 5]

Originally posted by: Odainsaker Oceania is a war with Eurasia; Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

It's when the Sears Tower gets renamed "AT&T-Bank of America-Xinhua Yinhang Synergy Corporate Plaza and Disney Chicagoland Adventure Mall GmbH" that we best take pause.

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haha...love it!

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Originally posted by: kody_bandmaster manticorefan: where would i find that rendering??

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It was on the front of the Sun-Times the day of the story, but I can't find it online. They must not have uploaded it.

Part of it is here [link]

I still get a juvenile laugh out of the name of the reporter in the little video, "The guy so nice they named him twice" is what I think of.

[IDS2 3,431]

What I think...locals, fans, and even authors will still call it the Sears Tower. Nobody has ever heard of Willis Co. (out of curiousity, has anyone here ever heard of it-before this topic came up?) It's not like they can get the word out to everyone, perhaps a small group of people will find out about the name change on page A2 of the Chicago Tribune, but I seriously doubt the majority of the population will refer to it as the Sears Tower.

The Sears Tower is so iconic that it has status similar to that of the Empire State Building...if J.P. Morgan were to claim naming rights of the Empire State Building (which they can't, because it is a protected landmark) do you think anyone would call the Empire State Building the J.P. Morgan Tower?

I dunno, maybe those of you who think people will adapt to the name change are right, but I seriously doubt many people will pick up on the change. Of course, I've been wrong about the same situation before; they renamed a major thoroughfare around MSP here a while back and I kept calling it the old name, but that was minor.

So, I really don't know.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: nofunk

Originally posted by: IDS2 Do they actually think anyone will call it the Willis Tower besides their own employees?quote>

 

Nah. The employees won't call it Willis Tower either.

I don't care that they renamed it, mostly because I don't think the name will stick. The Sears Tower is a landmark and people will refer to it by that name for a long time. Heck, I know many Chicagoans who still refer to the Macy's downtown as Marshall Fields. People don't like change.

There's a concert venue here in metro Detroit that used to be named Pine Knob. (Named after an adjoining ski resort.) Then DTE Energy purchased it and renamed it DTE Energy Music Theater. A decade later, people still call it Pine Knob. Of course, that's probably only because "DTE Energy Music Theater" is a mouthful!

And come to think of it, I still call DTE Energy by its old company name: Detroit Edison.

Point is, old habits die hard, and that includes the names we give places. In a generation or so people will call it Willis Tower, but for the foreseeable future, it's Sears. quote>

 

Theres a place like that in Dallas too.

Open air Amphitheater was  1st called Starplex Amphitheater. Then Coca Cola Starplex

Then Smirnof Center, now it Yellowpages.com theator or something like that.

Every one still calls it starplex. even though that name changed 10 years ago.

[Jay Ess 15]

Yeah... it'll still be the Sears Tower. Nobody's gonna care to call it the Willis Tower (a crappy name) over Sears Tower (a strong, bold, historic name). This isn't like people starting to call the RenCen the General Motors Rennaissance Center - this is not gonna catch on 30 years from now!

[paroxysm 2]

Odainsaker: Excellent 1984 reference.

I, personally, will stilll always call it the Sears Tower.

People, after they are used to something, will never let go of it. For example, DeAnza Boulevard in my hometown of San Jose, CA, was at one time (20 years ago) called Highway 9. The highway has since been rerouted to Saratoga Ave. Almost everyone I know still calls it Highway 9. It's just easier.