Wells Fargo Center is a skyscraper located in
Downtown
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,
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...
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Utah
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, United States. It was built in 1998 and is the tallest skyscraper in Utah, standing 24 stories above street level and at roof level, at its highest point excluding the antenna.
History
The American Stores Tower was originally built as the corporate headquarters for
American Stores
American Stores Company was an American public corporation and a holding company which ran chains of supermarkets and drugstores in the United States from 1917 through 1998. The company was incorporated in 1917 when The Acme Tea Company merged ...
(owners of
Sav-on
Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs were the names of a pair of chain store, chain pharmacy, pharmacies that operated in the United States. Osco Drug was founded by the Skaggs family. Alpha Beta grocery store was purchased by American Stores in 1961. S ...
,
Osco,
Jewel grocery/pharmacy stores.) Shortly after completion, the company was acquired by
Albertsons
Albertsons Companies, Inc. is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
With 2,253 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and 270,000 employees as of fiscal year 2019, the company is the second-larg ...
on August 3, 1998, and the building became known as the Delta Tower shortly thereafter. When Albertsons decided to move operations to the
Hardware Building on 400 West near North Temple, the building was purchased by
Wasatch Property Management, and renamed the building Wells Fargo Center. The building was the headquarters of the
Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) leading up to the
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internationa ...
.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California; operational headquarters in Manhattan; and managerial offices throughout the United States and intern ...
currently occupies numerous floors within the building, as do many of Salt Lake's premiere law firms.
Details
* Architect - HKS Architects
* It has 13 elevators
* Building use - office, commercial
* Structural type - highrise
* Architectural style - postmodern
* Materials - glass and Cold Springs salt and pepper granite
* Two helipads on the roof make the American Stores Heliport (UT31)
*
KUTV
KUTV (channel 2) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside independent station KJZZ-TV (channel 14) and St. George–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate K ...
is housed in the building
See also
*
List of tallest buildings by U.S. state
*
List of tallest buildings in Salt Lake City
This list of tallest buildings in Salt Lake City ranks skyscrapers in the U.S. city of Salt Lake City, Utah by height. The tallest building in the city is the Wells Fargo Center, which rises and was completed in 1998. Minimum height for this ...
References
External links
{{Tallest Buildings by U.S. state, state=autocollapse
1998 establishments in Utah
Office buildings completed in 1998
Skyscraper office buildings in Salt Lake City
Wells Fargo buildings