Stratosphere To Become #2?

The Stratosphere in Las Vegas is supposed to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi River... until now.
From the New York Daily News: A tower rises in the west.
Designed by renowned architect Cesar Pelli, construction of San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Tower is now officially underway.
A mixed use skyscraper that will reside atop the Transbay Terminal — a future rail hub that developers are billing as the west coast equivalent to Grand Central Station — Pelli’s sleek tower will reach 61 stories, 1070 feet into the sky, making it the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.
“The numbers don’t interest me,” Pelli told the Daily News. “What is important is that the building be visible above others.”
More than 200 feet taller than the iconic Transamerica Pyramid, the city’s highest man made peak since it was completed in 1972, Pelli’s design will go up just south of Market St., a part of town ripe for the addition of a bold architectural landmark.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cesar-pelli-transbay-transit-tower-soar-61-stories-san-francisco-article-1.1308926#ixzz2PffwnfIX
From Wiki: It is owned by Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co who purchased American Casino & Entertainment Properties which includes the Stratosphere along with three other properties. The sale closed on February 21, 2008 for US$1.3 billion. The property's signature attraction is the 1,149 ft (350.2 m) Stratosphere Tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States,^[2] and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere, surpassed only by the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario. The hotel is a separate building with 24 stories, 2,427 rooms and an 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m²) casino.  http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4994405161429545698#editor/target=post;postID=7470557545112930593
So, maybe this tower will not be as tall as the Stratosphere.
But then, maybe if the New York Daily News did a little research, maybe they would have found this out.