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Originally Posted by Shaggin Wagon
From Calgary Tower's Wikipedia page:
Developers deliberately misled the public, claiming the tower would stand 187 metres (614 ft), in the hopes of preventing competing developers from surpassing the Husky Tower's height record. Shortly after officials in San Antonio, Texas attempted to claim the record in announcing the completion of the 190 metres (620 ft) Tower of the Americas, developers revealed the Husky Tower's true height (190.8 meters).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Tower |
Call me crazy but it sure looks like San Antonio's tower is taller:
Roof height easily beats us, so I am guessing it was the antenna element that originally had us taller than theirs (which they seem to have remedied by adding their own).