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unusual facts about Trump Tower



McHugh Construction

Today, McHugh is known for constructing some of Chicago’s most recognizable landmarks and one-of-a-kind structures including Marina City, Water Tower Place, Trump Tower and 340 On The Park, all of which were the world’s tallest reinforced concrete structures at the time.

Paul Bonwit

In May 1979, the developer Donald Trump acquired and later demolished the Fifth Avenue store in order to make room for the Trump Tower.


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Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia

Philadelphia architect William Alesker, whose latest project is a Trump Tower in Center City, and Evangelical minister Tony Campolo, one of Bill Clinton's spiritual advisers, lived, respectively, in the 6200 blocks of Pine and Delancey Streets back in the 1940s and 1950s.