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{{short description|Skyscraper in Indianapolis, Indiana, US}}
{{redirect|Bank One Tower|the former headquarters of Bank One in Columbus, Ohio|Columbus Center (Ohio)}}
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{{Infobox building
|name               = Salesforce Tower
|former_names       = {{ublist|Bank One Tower (1990–2004)|Chase Tower (2005–2017)}}
|image              = ChaseTowerIndianapolis.jpg
|image_size         = 200px
|location           = 111 Monument Circle <br> [[Indianapolis]], Indiana, <br> United States
|coordinates        = {{coord|39|46|11|N|86|9|26|W|region:US-IN_scale:2000|display=inline,title}}
|completion_date    = 1990
|architect          = [[KlingStubbins]]
|floor_area         = {{convert|905,158|sqft|0|abbr=on}}
|top_floor          = {{convert|625|ft|0|abbr=on}}
|floor_count        = 48
| website =  {{URL|http://www.salesforcetowerindy.com/}}
|references         = {{skyscraperpage|325|title=Chase Tower}}
|building_type      = Office
|antenna_spire      = {{convert|811|ft|0|abbr=on}}
|roof               = {{convert|701|ft|0|abbr=on}}
|elevator_count     = 31
}}

'''Salesforce Tower''' (formerly known as '''Bank One Tower''', then '''Chase Tower''', and originally conceived as '''American Fletcher Tower''') is the [[List of tallest buildings in Indiana|tallest building]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Indiana]].<ref name="fwns-1986may08">{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=FWNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB6C48E1C8775EE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Indy's American Fletcher Agrees to Merge with Banc One of Ohio |newspaper=[[Fort Wayne News Sentinel]] |date=May 8, 1986 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url-access=subscription  |quote=The parent company of Indiana's largest bank has agreed to become part of Ohio's second-largest bank company. Officials of American Fletcher Corp. of Indianapolis and Banc One Corp. of [[Columbus, Ohio, said Wednesday the stock-swap deal was valued at $597.3 million, or about $60 a share of American Fletcher stock. The price paid is the highest so far for any Indiana bank, experts said. The Indianapolis bank will join Banc One, one of the Midwest's largest bank companies. Banc One has assets of more than $11 billion. American Fletcher's assets total $4.1 billion. American Fletcher will change its name to Banc One, Indiana Corp. and will gain a role in the management of the parent company. As part of the agreement, American Fletcher Chairman Frank E. McKinney Jr. will become president of the Ohio-based company. John B. McCoy, now Banc One president, will become chairman and chief executive officer. McKinney and two other directors of American Fletcher will be added to the Columbus-based company's board of directors. The two additional directors have not been named.}}</ref><ref name="WTHR">{{cite web|url=https://www.wthr.com/article/salesforce-tower-tour-a-look-inside-indianas-tallest-building|title=Salesforce Tower tour: A look inside Indiana's tallest building|website=WTHR|first=Matt|last=McCutcheon|date=June 24, 2017|access-date=May 28, 2019|archive-date=May 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528152647/https://www.wthr.com/article/salesforce-tower-tour-a-look-inside-indianas-tallest-building|url-status=dead}}</ref> Opening in 1990, it surpassed the AUL Tower, now [[OneAmerica Tower]], in [[Indianapolis]] for the distinction. The building's twin spires' are {{Convert|811|ft|0}} tall, while the 48 floors of office and retail space and two building equipment floors above that peak at the {{convert|701|ft|0|adj=on}} roof. It is the regional headquarters of [[Salesforce.com|Salesforce]], which moved into the tower in the late-2010s and currently occupies a large amount of space in the building. While the tower has two spires of equal height, only one of them is functional as a transmission antenna. The other mast is merely an architectural decoration.<ref name="Emporis">{{cite web|url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118700/salesforce-tower-indianapolis-in-usa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806082116/http://www.emporis.com/buildings/118700/salesforce-tower-indianapolis-in-usa|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 6, 2016|title=Salesforce Tower|website=[[Emporis]]|access-date=May 28, 2019}}</ref> The building was designed by [[KlingStubbins]], and built by Indianapolis-based [[Hunt Construction Group|Huber Hunt & Nichols]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hertzgroup.com/hertz-properties/salesforce-tower/|title=Salesforce Tower & Circle Building|website=www.hertzgroup.com|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-date=May 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529100225/https://www.hertzgroup.com/hertz-properties/salesforce-tower/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The tower's step pyramidal cap reflects the design of the [[Indiana World War Memorial Plaza|Indiana War Memorial]], three blocks due north.  The War Memorial, in turn, reflects the descriptions of the original [[Mausoleum of Maussollos|Mausoleum]].  Because of the height of this building, its roof was specifically designed to house communications relay equipment, in order to provide additional revenue to the building's owners.  Over the past several years, two large banners have occasionally been placed outside the north and south communication bullpen areas of the roof in support of two of the city's professional sports franchises. These "Go [[Indiana Pacers|Pacers]]" and "Go [[Indianapolis Colts|Colts]]" signs are highly visible being on the tallest structure in the city.

==Background and history==
[[File:Chase Tower, Indianápolis, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-22, DD 01.jpg|thumb|Salesforce Tower in October 2012]]
[[File:Indianapolis-indiana-soldiers-sailors-monument.jpg|thumb|Salesforce Tower seen behind [[Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)|Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument]] in October 2009]]
The tower was originally conceived in the late 1970s by [[Frank McKinney|Frank E. McKinney Jr.]], chairman of [[American Fletcher Corporation]], the [[holding company]] for [[American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Company]] (AFNB), which at the time was Indiana's largest financial institution, to allow for consolidation and expansion of his company's headquarters.<ref name="tis-1985sep12">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/106377029/ |title=Hamilton County banking suddenly is "Big 3" game |newspaper=[[The Indianapolis Star]] |date=September 12, 1985 |page=43 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-access=subscription  |quote=It's getting harder to tell the difference between banks in Hamilton County and Indianapolis. Two county banks have agreed to be acquired by members of the Indianapolis "Big Three." Another is controlled by the Frenzel family, which runs another large Indianapolis institution, Merchants National Bank. "It will become very much like Marion County," Frank E. McKinney Jr., chairman of American Fletcher Corp., says of Hamilton County. The Indianapolis bank firm is the latest to enter the Hamilton market reaching a pact on Aug. 30 to buy Carmel Bank and Trust Co... Since the early 1970s, the major Indianapolis banks Merchants, American Fletcher and Indiana national banks have looked toward Hamilton County... Carmel Bank & Trust Co. $17.8 million in assets agreed to be acquired by American Fletcher Corp... In the meantime, Carmel Bank the county's smallest bank with about $17.8 million in assets intends to start branches as well. The bank currently has only its main office in Carmel. American Fletcher's McKinney adds that results won't be dramatic.}}</ref> Land was slowly being assembled for the building, with several predecessor structures along Ohio Street and Pennsylvania Street being demolished in those years and the early 1980s to clear the way for what McKinney hoped would soon be Indiana's tallest office tower.

Before construction of the building began, American Fletcher became the first major Indianapolis bank holding company to be sold to an out-of-state financial institution, agreeing in the spring of 1986 to merge with [[Ohio]]'s rapidly growing [[Banc One Corporation]].<ref name=upi-1987jan27>{{cite news |url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/01/27/American-Fletcher-Corp-and-Banc-One-Corp-Monday-completed/6027538722000/ |title=American Fletcher Corp. and Banc One Corp. Monday completed... |newspaper=[[United Press International]] |date=January 27, 1987 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref> Upon consummation of that merger, Mr. McKinney became chairman of [[Bank One Indiana|Bank One's Indiana]] operations and tower planning picked up momentum. Ground was broken and construction began in June 1987 on the newly designated Bank One Center Tower which was to be integrated with AFNB's existing headquarters complex on Monument Circle and adjacent Market Street.<ref name="Emporis" />

This was done mainly to secure the prestigious Monument Circle address for the new tower, which rises between Ohio Street and Wabash Street (the east–west alley between Market and Ohio). Thus, the Ohio Street entrance to the tower is the complex's back door with a concourse-style passageway on the second level running over Scioto Street (the north–south alley between Pennsylvania and Meridian) to connect the skyscraper (and its attached parking garage along Pennsylvania Street) to the main entrance in the original 1960 American National Bank Building at 111 Monument Circle.

A separate [[skywalk]] across Scioto once connected the Circle Building to the adjacent [[Fletcher Trust Building]] at 10 E. Market Street, but that was later removed after the bank moved all operations formerly located in that structure into the new tower. The Fletcher Trust Building itself was subsequently sold and has since been renovated into a [[Hilton Garden Inn]] hotel. Banc One Corporation (later renamed Bank One Corporation) went through several additional major acquisitions before it was itself bought by J.P. Morgan Chase in the early 2000s. Upon consummation of that merger, the Indianapolis structure was renamed to become known as the Chase Tower, but Chase was not allowed to attach its name and logo to the top of the building until 2013 after the building changed owners.<ref name="ibj-2013dec18">{{cite news |url=http://www.ibj.com/blogs/3-property-lines/post/45164-chase-attaches-name-to-downtown-s-tallest-building |title=Chase attaches name to downtown's tallest building |newspaper=[[Indianapolis Business Journal]] |date=December 18, 2013 |first=Cory |last=Schouten}}</ref>

On May 6, 2016, [[Salesforce]] announced plans to lease hundreds of thousands of square feet in the building and start moving employees there in early 2017. The building has since been rebranded as Salesforce Tower Indianapolis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2016/05/06/salesforce-expected-rename-chase-tower-hire-800/83973780/ |title=Salesforce to rename Chase Tower, hire 800 |newspaper=[[Indianapolis Star]] |date=May 8, 2016 |access-date=May 28, 2019 |first=James |last=Briggs}}</ref>

==Observation deck==
The tower has no official observation deck. However, views of [[Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)|Monument Circle]] and the immediate downtown area can be seen from floors 2 and 7 in the common areas on the Circle side of the complex. In 2017, electronic turnstiles were implemented in the tower as a security measure. In turn, the elevators are no longer accessible by the public. However, Visitors Passes can be attained from the Security Desk in both the Circle and Tower-side lobbies. The tower can be seen from various spots around greater Indianapolis.<ref name="WTHR" />

==See also==
*[[List of tallest buildings in the United States]]
*[[List of tallest buildings by U.S. state]]
*[[List of tallest buildings in Indianapolis]]
*[[List of tallest buildings in Indiana]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
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*{{official website|http://www.salesforcetowerindy.com/}}
*[http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=325 Salesforce Tower at SkyscraperPage]
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070206192215/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=chasetower-indianapolis-in-usa Salesforce Tower at Emporis]}}
*[http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/salesforce-tower/903 Salesforce Tower at SkyscraperCenter]

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