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The tallest building in North America, Sears Tower to be renamed Willis Tower
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I think of Bruce Willis and Die Hard.
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Bush Tax Cuts == Job Killer
June 2001: 132,047,000 employed
June 2003: 129,839,000 employed
2.21 million jobs were LOST after 2 years of Bush Tax Cuts.
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Everyone will still call it the Sears Tower.
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The building was dead the whole time.
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I hate when landmark buildings get renamed. I almost cried when the Pan Am building became Met Life, and the Hayden Planetarium became the Rose Center. Blasphemy.
But whatever, I don't own them.
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I think it should be named after Ted Kennedy.
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1) No one is going to call it anything other than the Sears Tower in this city
2) That stupid spire was scheduled* to replace its distinction in this city anyway
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How about the JCPenny Tower? Or the WalMart Tower? Or maybe the Bed Bath and Beyond Tower?
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KMart owns sears. It's the KMart tower.
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Originally Posted by Eriamjh
KMart owns sears. It's the KMart tower.
Uhm, yeah, well, except that it's the other way round. Fail.
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Originally Posted by macforray
Read the link you posted.
Sears was acquired by Kmart Holding Corp. in 2005. The deal formed a new parent company, Sears Holdings, which owns both chains.
Parent: Sears (Holding)
Underneath, there are 3 business segments:
Kmart, Sears Domestic and Sears Canada
Therefore, to say that "KMart owns Sears" is NOT correct.
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Hella-lame. I so won't jump off it now.
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According to the article Sears doesn't even live there anymore and they don't own the building. Kinda makes sense.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Read the link you posted.
Parent: Sears (Holding)
Underneath, there are 3 business segments:
Kmart, Sears Domestic and Sears Canada
Therefore, to say that "KMart owns Sears" is NOT correct.
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Well, to be fair, it is very confusing, because of the name change.
KMart (as KMart Holding Corp) bought Sears. Then KMart Holding Corp changed their name to Sears Holding Corp. So now Sears owns KMart.
So, Sears now owns KMart because KMart bought Sears. Doesn't make sense, but that's how it happened.
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Originally Posted by Person Man
KMart (as KMart Holding Corp) bought Sears. Then KMart Holding Corp changed their name to Sears Holding Corp. So now Sears owns KMart.
Perhaps it was something like a reverse merger thing, just like the current takeover of Schering-Plough by Merck.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1255...reverse-merger
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Reading the descriptions of a reverse merger that you posted above and looking at the story on the Wikipedia entry on Sears Holdings Corp makes it sound like a reverse merger, but the Wikipedia Entry doesn't specifically say "reverse merger" and the still-existing publicly accessible sources for the Wikipedia article don't mention a reverse merger either.
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People may not stop calling it the Sears tower. We still call our department store Daytons even though it is now owned by Macy's. When companies are bought out, the general public may not go along with it.
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I wonder how many people still call it "Candlestick Park" and "Three Rivers Stadium" too? Or "Mile High Stadium"??? I hate corporate names that take over landmarks. Even though Sears Tower is corporate, it's always been know n that way.
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I thought I'd keep saying "Marshall Field's" after Macy's took it over, but they were such total assholes about it I found myself calling it "Macy's" as a pejorative.
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In downtown Detroit, there's a building called the Penobscot building at 625 Griswold St., exactly in the middle of downtown. In the late '70s the National Bank of Commerce bought the building and put a big "NBC" sign on it. Know what everybody called the building? "The Penobscot Building." It's still called that.
Moral? In 5 years nobody will remember "Willis" (except for "whatcha talkin' bout, Willis?) and it'll be "the Sears Tower" to everybody.
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Penobscot.
I call Conspiracy!
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Originally Posted by Person Man
Reading the descriptions of a reverse merger that you posted above and looking at the story on the Wikipedia entry on Sears Holdings Corp makes it sound like a reverse merger, but the Wikipedia Entry doesn't specifically say "reverse merger" and the still-existing publicly accessible sources for the Wikipedia article don't mention a reverse merger either.
Maybe it was like the whole SBC/Cingular/AT&T thing, where SBC bought AT&T but thought that AT&T's name was more recognizable, so they changed their own name (and Cingular's) to AT&T?
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its done.
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Originally Posted by Captain Obvious
its done.
On paper, and on the signs in the building. But I stand by my prediction that in a few years everyone in Chicago will still call it "the Sears Tower."
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Originally Posted by ghporter
On paper, and on the signs in the building. But I stand by my prediction that in a few years everyone in Chicago will still call it "the Sears Tower."
The wha-? Oh, you mean the Willis Tower.
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Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
I wonder how many people still call it "Candlestick Park" and "Three Rivers Stadium" too? Or "Mile High Stadium"??? I hate corporate names that take over landmarks. Even though Sears Tower is corporate, it's always been know n that way.
I don't even know what I would call it other than Candlestick Park.
I still call the new(er) Giant's stadium PacBell Park too...
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