225 South Sixth
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| Begun: | 1989 |
| Opened: | 1992 |
| Height: | 775 feet (236.2 m) |
| Floors: | 56 (53 occupied) |
| ZIP Code: | 55402 |
| World Rank: | 137th (as of July 2005) |
| City Rank: | 2nd (as of early 2005) |
| Location: | Capella Tower |
| Architect: | James Ingo Freed James Ingo Freed James Ingo Freed was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic.His Jewish family fled to the United States when he was 9 to escape the regime of Nazi Germany.... Pei Cobb Freed & Partners |
| Developers: | Joint Venture of IBM Corporation and The OPUS Corporation |
| Structural Engineer: | CBM Engineers Inc. CBM Engineers Inc. CBM Engineers, Inc. is a structural engineering design consultancy firm based in Houston, Texas, USA with branches in Dubai and Mumbai. The firm was established in 1975, providing complete structural engineering services for low, mid, high-rise buildings.... |
Capella Tower (also 225 South Sixth) is a skyscraper
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
, USA. The building opened in 1992 with the First Bank Place being the headquarters for First Bank System. In 1997, First Bank System acquired US Bancorp and changed the name of the building to US Bancorp Place. The headquarters of US Bancorp moved into the US Bancorp Center
US Bancorp Center
The US Bancorp Center is a 467-ft tall skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was completed in 2000 and has 32 floors. It is the 13th-tallest building in the city. A skyway connects this building to the Macy's Department Store Addition and 900 Nicollet Plaza. Several low-rise buildings were...
in 2000, whereupon the tower changed to 225 South 6th Street. In March 2009, the building took its present name.
The ranking of the building as the tallest in Minneapolis is in dispute. The IDS Center
IDS Center
The IDS Center is the tallest building in the state of Minnesota at 792 feet . Opened in 1974 as the IDS Centre, it stood 775 feet 6 inches , though a 16-foot garage for window washing equipment was added at a later date...
is usually said to be taller by one foot, even by the owners of Capella Tower. It was initially said to be built one foot shorter out of respect for the IDS Center; however, in 2005, it was revealed that contractors had surreptitiously added 14 inches of height to Capella, therefore making it taller than the main roof of IDS Center. In February 2005, the IDS counted a 16-foot (4.9 m) tall window washing garage built on its roof in 1979 as part of its actual height, making it 14 feet (4.3 m) taller than Capella Tower. This ambiguity between official measurements and public relations
Public relations
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statements might be due in some part to the "halo" that extends out from the roof, which is apparently included in the building's official height (though this is unclear).
The IDS is taller on two measures. The IDS's communications spires add a significant amount of height making it 910 feet (277.4 m), and it remains the tallest building in Minneapolis if measured by number of stories (57 vs. 56; actually tied for first with neighbor Wells Fargo Center
Wells Fargo Center (Minneapolis)
The Wells Fargo Center, formerly known as Norwest Center, is the third-tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after the IDS Center and the Capella Tower. Completed in 1988, it is 774 feet tall. For many years, this was believed to be one foot shorter than Capella, but that structure...
).
The building's total office space is 1400000 square feet (130,064.3 m²).
Capella Tower
For-Profit School
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online Capella University
Capella University
Capella University is a for-profit co-educational university with partial residency requirements during the course of study, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.The school is owned by the publicly traded Capella Education Company...
, signed a lease that will change the name of the tower to Capella Tower; the name of the project will remain Capella Tower. Running through 2015, the new lease expands Capella's square footage in the building from 203000 square feet (18,859.3 m²) to about 400000 square feet (37,161.2 m²), making it the largest tenant in the building. The expanded facility will house all of the company's 1,150 downtown Minneapolis employees; as the online school does not have classrooms, the space houses administrative staff and faculty. The name change took place in March 2009.