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'We have incidents every day'; Sept. 11 had a huge impact on the Sears Tower, Chicago's tallest building. But is it safer?(Focus: Commercial Real Estate)
Crain's Chicago Business, August, 2006
Byline: CHRISTINA LE BEAU There's no question Sept. 11 changed the Sears Tower. Security officers are everywhere. Large planters outside are clearly more for protection than decoration. And the 25,000 people who work in and visit the nation's tallest building every day can't enter or leave without being watched, recorded and possibly searched.
Management, meanwhile, has grown accustomed to fielding inquiries about alleged terrorist plots like the one uncovered in Miami in June. "We don't have terrorism threats every day,'' says Barbara Carley, managing director of the Sears Tower, which has been managed by CB Richard Ellis Inc. of Los Angeles since 2004. "We do have incidents every day.'' Sometimes that's a suspicious person. Other times it's as benign...
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