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Construction began on February 19, 1967, and completed in 15 months at a cost of $3.5 million.<ref name="TowerHistory">{{cite web|url=http://www.calgarytower.com/History.html|title=History of the Calgary Tower|work=Calgary Tower|access-date=2009-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306182725/http://www.calgarytower.com/History.html|archive-date=March 6, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The column of the tower was built from an unprecedented continual pour of [[concrete]]. Pouring began May 15, 1967, and was completed 24 days later at an average growth of {{convert|25|ft|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} per day, a rate that was praised by industry officials as an "amazing feat of technical and physical workmanship".<ref name="HeraldOnTop">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JWhkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2454%2C5012789|title=Husky Tower puts Calgary on top|work=Calgary Herald|date=June 28, 1968|access-date=July 21, 2015|page=21}}</ref>

Upon completion, the Husky Tower stood {{convert|190.8|m626|ft|abbrorder=onflip}} tall and was the tallest structure of its type in North America.<ref name="Sun25th"/> It dominated the Calgary skyline, standing well over twice the height of the previous tallest structure in the city, [[Elveden Centre (Calgary)|Elveden House]].<ref name="HeraldOnTop"/> Developers deliberately misled the public, claiming the tower would stand {{convert|187|m613|ft|abbrorder=onflip}}, 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 {{convert|190|m622|ft|abbrorder=flip|adj=on}} [[Tower of the Americas]], developers revealed the Husky Tower's true height.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JWhkAAAAIBAJ&pg=3752%2C5022180|title=Overnight growth kept city on top|work=Calgary Herald|date=June 28, 1968|access-date=July 21, 2015|page=23}}</ref>

The Husky Tower officially opened on June 28–30, 1968, in three separate ceremonies.<ref name="TowerHistory"/> The observation level featured a lounge/restaurant called the ''Hitching Post''.<ref>{{cite news|title='Hitching Post' tag coined for lounge|work=Calgary Herald|date=June 28, 1968|page=22|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JWhkAAAAIBAJ&pg=5076%2C5021033|access-date=April 30, 2021}}</ref>