Chrysler Building Chrysler eventually built and paid for the building's subway entrance. Work on the new entrance started in March 1930 and it opened along with the Chrysler Building two months later. The basement also had a "hydrozone water bottling unit" that would filter tap water into drinkable water for the building's tenants. The drinkable water would then be bottled and shipped to higher floors. The private Cloud Club formerly occupied the 66th through 68th floors. It opened in July 1930 with some three hundred members, all wealthy males who formed the city's elite. Its creation was spurred by Texaco's wish for
New South Wales Club building Capital and Counties would lease the front of the Club building to the National Trust which would then lease it to IPEC Investments. Capital and Counties nominally leased the building to the Trust at one dollar per year, with the City of Sydney offering Capital and Counties an incentive by giving a bonus plot ratio which allowed additional floors for its intended office block site as compensation for the additional cost of preserving the original club building. The demolished wings and rear would be used by Capital and Counties as high-rise offices and in its deal with IPEC, the Savoy