Wells Fargo Center, Office skyscraper in Downtown Salt Lake City, United States.
Wells Fargo Center is a 24-story office tower at 400 ft (120 m) to roof level in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Its facade is a grid of light grey or beige panels framing tall greenish-blue glass windows, with dark mullions and small square accents at the panel joints. The flat top has a slight overhanging cap, and the building rises behind lower buildings and trees.
Construction ran from 1996 to 1998, and the tower opened as the American Stores Tower, headquarters of American Stores. Albertsons acquired the company on August 3, 1998, and the building became the Delta Tower. After Albertsons moved to the Hardware Building on 400 West near North Temple, Wasatch Property Management bought it and renamed it Wells Fargo Center. It served as headquarters of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee before the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The tower's name comes from Wells Fargo, which occupies numerous floors as a tenant. Before the 2002 Winter Olympics, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) was headquartered here, and local broadcaster KUTV is also housed in the building.
The tower occupies a triangular footprint in downtown Salt Lake City, with its main face rising behind lower buildings and trees. Visitors reach it on foot from the surrounding downtown blocks; the building itself is a working office tower with 13 elevators and commercial space, not a public attraction with an observation deck.
The two rooftop helipads form the American Stores Heliport, designated UT31, named for the tower's first occupant, American Stores. The building's plan is a right triangle, so the roof deck and its pads sit over an irregular footprint rather than a square one.
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