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Transamerica Tower (Baltimore)
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Navy warship, USS Constellation with Constellation Dock replacing old Municipal Pier 1. Within a decade, the new tower was surrounded by glass and aluminum office buildings, hotels. By the 1960s soon the largest banking chain in the state, despite its own changes of owners and names, the former U. S. F. Building remains the tallest building in Baltimore, the tallest building in Maryland, and it was also the former home of Legg Mason investment and financial advisors who later relocated to newer quarters on the eastern side of the downtown in Harbor East. USF&G built the 35-story tower, selling it when they were purchased by the St. Paul Companies, the building was again put on sale in early 2015. USF&G remained in the building until the mid-1990s, the buildings primary occupant was asset manager Legg Mason, Inc. until 2009. In February 2007, Legg Mason announced that it would be moving to a new skyscraper in the Harbor East southeastern waterfront development, as of 2010, the Legg Mason sign was no longer at the top of the Pratt and Light Streets building. In 2009 the building home to the Baltimore branch of RBC Wealth Management. In spring 2011, the building became home to Baltimore-based law firm Ober|Kaler. The firm occupies 6 floors of the building, in November 2011, after it was purchased by Transamerica, about 800 workers from Transamerica were located in the building. In April 2013, the added the headquarters and became the home of the Mid-Atlantic law firm and well known in Baltimore
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AT&T Center (Los Angeles)
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AT&T Center, formerly SBC Tower, Transamerica Building, and Occidental Life Building, is a 32-story,138 m skyscraper in the South Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Built to house the offices and computer center of the Occidental Life Insurance Company and it is the 32nd tallest building in Los Angeles, and was the 2nd tallest when it was completed. The International styled building was designed by William Pereira & Associates, the three buildings are connected by underground pedestrian tunnels. Canyon-Johnson Realty Advisors bought the complex in April 2003 for $88 million. After they bought it, they converted the least occupied building into below market-rate apartments, in September 2006 Transamerica signed $75 million lease to retain its offices in the building. In 2007 to 2008 it went under a $35 million renovation, scaffolding was put around the buildings crown, the metallic panels were replaced, and the office space was upgraded. List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles Angelenic Angelenic bnet AT&T Center Office Information
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555 California Street
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555 California Street, formerly Bank of America Center, is a 52-story 778 ft skyscraper in San Francisco, California. It is the second tallest building in the city, the largest by area. Some sites round the heights of all four buildings to 780 ft making those four buildings tied as the 66th tallest buildings in the country, colloquially known as Triple Five,555 California Street was meant to display the wealth, power, and importance of Bank of America. Design was by Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with architect Pietro Belluschi consulting, structural engineering was by the San Francisco firm H. J. Brunnier Associates. The skyscraper has thousands of bay windows thanks to its design, meant to improve the rental value. The irregular cutout areas near the top of the building were designed to suggest the Sierra mountains, at the north side of the skyscraper is a broad plaza named in honor of Bank of America founder A. P. Giannini. In the plaza the 200-ton black Swedish granite sculpture Transcendence by Masayuki Nagare resembles a liver but is known as the Bankers Heart. Nearly the entire block—the skyscraper, the hall, the plaza, the stairways. A restaurant, the Carnelian Room, was on the 52nd floor, the elevator to this restaurant is one of the few publicly accessible high-speed elevators in San Francisco. The restaurant closed at midnight New Years Eve 2009, the film shows panoramic views of San Francisco from the roof of the building. Many scenes were filmed in the interior ground-floor lobby. The granite stairs coming up from California Street to the A. P, the rooftop setting of the building used in Dirty Harry was also used a decade later in the Chuck Norris film An Eye for an Eye. The southeast corner of California and Kearny is about 35 feet above sea level, the Transamerica Pyramid is taller, but because of its top spire,555 California has the highest habitable space. The corner of California and Montgomery is built on landfill and the lowest level of the garage is below the level of the bay, so pumps, audible from the garage. The building is built on two huge Teflon slabs meant to slide over each other in case of an earthquake, state of the art design when it was built
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Salesforce Tower
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Salesforce Tower, formerly known as the Transbay Tower, is a 1, 070-foot supertall office skyscraper under construction in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisco. When completed, the tower will be the tallest in San Francisco, with a top roof height of 970 feet and an overall height of 1,070 feet, it will be the second-tallest building west of the Mississippi River after the Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles. Developer Hines, with a proposal by architect César Pelli, was selected as the winner of a competition in 2007 to entitle. In 2012, Boston Properties acquired a 50% stake in the project, the site of the tower was in a dilapidated area, formerly used as a ground-level entrance to the San Francisco Transbay Terminal, which was demolished in 2011. The TJPA sold the parcel to Boston Properties and Hines for US$192 million, actual below-grade construction work started in late 2013. The project is a joint venture between general contractors Clark Construction and Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction, the development was originally contracted on spec, meaning the developer-owner did not have a major tenant lease secured beforehand. On April 11,2014, Salesforce. com announced that it signed a lease for 714,000 square feet on floors 1, 3–30, previously known as the Transbay Tower, the building was renamed Salesforce Tower. The lease was valued at US$560 million over 15 and a half starting in 2017. The tower is expected to be completed in 2018 and will have 61 floors, the original proposal called for a 1, 200-foot tower, but the height was later reduced. It will be the tallest building in San Francisco, surpassing the Transamerica Pyramid by more than 200 feet, the tower is expected to become the second-tallest building in the Western United States. A facebook group critical of the design gained over 700 likes. Despite the tower not being completed, San Francisco Curbed readers rated Salesforce Tower as one of the 20 ugliest buildings in the city. Many also noted their disappointment that the tower, built on formerly state-owned land and claiming the highest elevation point in San Francisco, satirical blogs have also ridiculed the tower for its provocative shape
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Montgomery Street
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Montgomery Street is a north-south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It runs about 16 blocks from the Telegraph Hill neighborhood south through downtown, for this reason, it is known as the Wall Street of the West. South of Market Street, the street continues as New Montgomery Street for two blocks to terminate at Howard Street in the SOMA district. In the 1830s, the land which is now Montgomery Street lay at the edge of San Francisco Bay, between 1849 and 1852, the waterfront advanced about four blocks. At present, Montgomery Street is about seven blocks from the water, the corner of Montgomery and Clay is where John B. Montgomery landed when he came to hoist the U. S. flag after the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846, in 1853 the Montgomery Block, a center of early San Francisco law and literature, was built at 600 Montgomery, on land currently occupied by the Transamerica Pyramid. 555 California Street, between Kearny and Montgomery, served as Bank of Americas world headquarters prior to its merger with NationsBank and was called the Bank of America Building. The Transamerica Pyramid was the headquarters of Transamerica Corporation and still appears in the companys logo. Melvin Belli, lawyer known as The King of Torts, had his offices at the Belli Building at 722-724 Montgomery St. Belli used to raise a Jolly Roger, Bank of the West is headquartered at 180 Montgomery Street
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Transamerica Corporation
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The company’s main offices are in Baltimore, Maryland, Denver, Colorado and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with affiliated offices located throughout the United States. In 1999, it became a subsidiary of Aegon, a European financial services company headquartered in The Hague, Transamerica funds the Transamerica Institute, a nonprofit foundation which comprises the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies and the Transamerica Center for Health Studies. In October 1904, A. P. Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, in 1928, Giannini put the banks into a holding company he named the Transamerica Corporation. In 1930, the company acquired Occidental Life Insurance Company, which had founded in 1906. Gradually, the became a more diversified conglomerate which included the film studio United Artists, Transamerica Airlines. In 1972, construction of the Transamerica Pyramid skyscraper in San Francisco was completed, although the company currently retains only a small presence in the building, the building is still depicted in the companys logo and marketing materials. In the 1980s, Transamerica began to divest and focused exclusively on financial services and it was eventually pared down to three main product divisions, insurance, investments, and retirement. In July 1999, with Frank C, herringer as CEO, Transamerica Corporation was acquired by Aegon, an insurance company based in the Netherlands. Transamerica Occidental was merged into Transamerica Life Insurance Company October 1,2008, Transamerica primarily offers insurance and financial services. Types of life and health insurance policies offered include term life, whole life, universal life, variable universal life, accidental death, Medicare supplement, Transamerica companies also offer a variety of mutual funds and annuities. Transamerica sponsors four professional golfers, two of whom are members of the PGA Tour, as well as one each of the Champions Tour. These golfers are Zach Johnson, Tom Watson, Azahara Muñoz, Transamerica is also the jersey sponsor for the Colorado Rapids soccer team, as well as the field sponsor for the Charlotte 49ers. The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award is also sponsored by Transamerica, winners include AJ McCarron, Collin Klein, and Andrew Luck. Transamerica sponsors numerous marathons and triathlons, including the Ironman, Rock n Roll Marathon, the company also sponsors USA Triathlon, the governing body for triathlon events in the United States. Transamerica funds two foundations, the Aegon Transamerica Foundation and the Transamerica Institute, the Aegon Transamerica Foundation was created in 1994 and provides financial grants to community non-profit organizations. Transamerica employees also provide volunteering services to the organizations, the foundation received the Corporate Citizenship Award in 2013 for creating the first urban farm in the state of Iowa. The Transamerica Institute consists of two divisionsthe Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies and the Transamerica Center for Health Studies, the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies researches and provides education on trends, issues, and opportunities related to saving and planning for retirement. The Transamerica Center for Health Studies focuses on identifying, researching, the Transamerica Institute is funded by contributions from Transamerica Life Insurance Company
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Cushman & Wakefield
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Cushman & Wakefield is an American commercial real estate services company. The company’s global headquarters is located in Chicago, with headquarters in New York City, London. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest commercial real estate services firms with revenues of $5 billion. The firm operates in more than 60 countries and 43,000 employees. Cushman & Wakefield was founded in New York on October 31,1917 by brothers-in-law J. Clydesdale Cushman, expanding first throughout the United States and then globally, today Cushman & Wakefield has approximately 250 offices in 60 countries, employing more than 16,000 people. 1860 George Healey’s son, Alfred, becomes a partner in the firm,1910 George Henry Baker joins Healey’s firm. Bernard Wakefield arrives in the United States from England, where since the age of 21 he had been managing a real estate office,1917 Cushman & Wakefield is incorporated in New York by J. Clydesdale Cushman and Bernard Wakefield. 1920 George Henry Baker becomes a partner and the firm known as Healey & Baker. 1930’s-1940’s Cushman & Wakefield becomes a leader in all real estate services throughout the regional New York area. 1960 Cushman & Wakefield begins a national expansion establishing offices throughout the U. S.1969 Media conglomerate RCA Corp. acquired Cushman & Wakefield,1976 RCA Corp. sold its stake to The Rockefeller Group. 1984 Arthur J. Mirante II becomes CEO of Cushman & Wakefield,1989 Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd. became the majority shareholder in The Rockefeller Group. 1990 Presence in Europe established through the acquisition of Healey & Baker,1994 C&W worldwide partnership is established with major real estate services firms in the U. S. Europe, Asia, South America, Mexico, and Canada. 2001 Cushman & Wakefield acquires Cushman Realty Corporation, bolstering its presence on the West Coast and Southwest United States, Cushman back to the firm founded by their grandfather, J. Clydesdale Cushman and great-uncle, Bernard Wakefield. Cushman became Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Louis B,2002 The Cushman & Wakefield Alliance Program was formed to expand service capabilities for clients in U. S. markets where owned offices were not maintained. 2005 Bruce E. Mosler becomes CEO of Cushman & Wakefield, Cushman & Wakefield sells the MetLife Building at 200 Park Avenue for $1.72 billion, the largest single-building sale in New York City history at the time. Cushman & Wakefield acquires its affiliate in Russia, establishing Cushman & Wakefield Stiles & Riabokobylko,2006 Cushman & Wakefield establishes its own office in Romania, Central Europe’s second biggest market after Poland. Cushman & Wakefield purchase Cushman & Wakefield Mexico and that stake is currently 80.91 percent. Cushman & Wakefield carries out a series of acquisitions which include real estate investment banking firm Sonnenblick Goldman, Semco, Cushman & Wakefield is named the exclusive leasing agent for One World Trade Center by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Cushman & Wakefield Hospitality Asia and Cushman & Wakefield Capital Asia are established 2008 Cushman & Wakefield acquired Burnham Real Estate in Western U. S, Cushman & Wakefield acquires P&D Real Estate Consultants in Turkey
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