[LINK] "No name change for CN tower, owners say"

[rfmcdonald]

Thanks to rdi for pointing out that the recent suggestion that the CN Tower might be renamed was nothing more than a publicity stunt.

The owners of the CN Tower are dismissing outright a scheme by a new online used car company to pay $78-million to change the tower's name to “VG Tower.”

“We have no intention right now of selling the tower – the bricks and mortar or the naming rights,” said Gordon McIvor, vice-president of public and government affairs at Canada Lands Company, the Crown corporation which owns the landmark.

In a news release marking the formal launch of their website Tuesday morning, Vehicle Gateway Corporation announced it plans to submit a $78-million bid to rename the tower and illuminate it in the company's shade of green.

Peter Davies, a spokesman for Vehicle Gateway, denied the bid is a publicity stunt. “This is a legitimate bid,” he said in an interview.

Mr. McIvor said Canada Lands first heard about the bid through the media. When someone from the CN Tower's staff called to ask what they were up to, Vehicle Gateway refused to talk before submitting their bid next Tuesday, McIvor said.

“Letting the media know that you want to buy something before the owners is, from our perspective, highly unusual,” he said.

Mind, the CN Tower has been renamed in the past, from the Canadian National Tower (after the railway company to Canada's National Tower, but I'm not sure that many people noticed that.