Newport Tower (Jersey City) World Financial Center in Manhattan. The Newport Tower is a modern-style building. It is similar in appearance to the world-famous Willis Tower, (formerly known as "Sears Tower") in Chicago, Illinois. The tower received a facelift in the summer of 2005; wooden panels have been installed on the lobby walls, and LCD advertisement screens added to the elevators. The colonnade in front of the building has been removed in July 2008. A new elevator management system, Schindler ID, was installed in the building in September 2009. On October 19, 2011, Multi-Employer Property Trust purchased the Newport Tower from Brookfield Properties for
Center City Tower (Philadelphia) with Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia's most high-profile corporation, in mind. Such a rumor would have been killed on January 5, 2005, the day Comcast Center was officially launched. Center City Tower (Philadelphia) Center City Tower was the working name of a formerly proposed skyscraper in downtown Philadelphia. Designed and proposed by the firm now known as KlingStubbins (designers of Philadelphia's Penn Center and Bell Atlantic Tower), the building would have risen to a height of 1,050 feet (320 m) and 75 stories, making it the tallest building in The United States outside New York and Chicago, surpassing the height of the