The elevator in Corona Tower is pivotal to keeping the public unaware of the research center in the building's massive basement complex.

The main elevator opens directly onto the mall and has two cars. Never wait, never late! is a Tower motto.

Accessing the cars without a passkey only takes you between the mall level and the main lobby one floor up. To reach the upper floors in the Tower, you must use both a passkey and a palm scanner. The main elevator will access the five basement levels, but those floors are restricted to people with proper clearance. To keep down curiosity, only the options that are available to you will appear on the control panel when you insert your passkey. Any passkey can be limited to a single or range of floors.

Corona Tower has multiple elevators. With the underground complex covering 64 city blocks, it would be unreasonable to expect one elevator to service the entire complex. Aboveground, Stamford Suites has a private elevator that services only the six floors of the hotel, including a service elevator for hotel workers. Belowground, numerous elevators run just within the research complex. The hospital on Basement Level 4 has direct access via its own elevators to the underground parking garage.

You can tell if you are in the main elevator by the mirrored ceiling. It is the only elevator to have this distinctive feature.

We first see the Corona Tower elevator in operation in Book 1 of The Human-Hybrid Project, Shattered by Glass.

Jantzen Hefferly's Corona Tower apartment is on the penthouse level, with full views west and south across Bay City.

The top floor of Corona Tower is divided into three apartments. Weston Rodheimer's apartment takes up half the top floor, covering nearly 14,000 square feet. The rest of the floor is divided into two units, making Jantzen's apartment half the size of Rodheimer's.

The apartment is a spacious two-bedrooms, with an expansive living area, dining area and small kitchen. The bedrooms have generous walls of windows, with private, luxurious baths. Much of the floor space is dedicated to entries, storage, and multiple alcoves, perfect for decorative artwork. 

Views from the apartment include Central Park to the southeast; The Martial Arts Center (and Ai Kee!) just past that; Bay City Medical Center; the Ransom Communications Building; and City View Apartments when the trees are bare in winter. To the west, Argyle Station and the Interstate Transport building are visible. There is a restricted view of The Docks and Cassel Dunes along the shore, as the Tower doesn't have a true north-south alignment.

We first visit Jantzen's apartment when Garik Shayk is moved to the upper floor of the Tower as a reward after Jantzen is lost to Halo Sunchaser's electrified sword. Later, the apartment becomes a way to monitor the youth, who seems entirely too adept at escaping the Tower's clutches to disappear into the city at large.

The best part of living in this apartment is looking across the city as it rises to crest along Stanwick Hill, topped by the Ransom and its spire of communication antennae thrusting into the sky.

We first visit Jantzen Hefferly's apartment in Book 8 of The Human-Hybrid Project, Sunchaser's Gambit.

The Penthouse, as its name suggests, is located at the top of Corona Tower.

Weston Rodheimer claims the glass-fronted residence as his Tower home. It takes up a sizable portion of the Tower’s summit, although it is only one of three residences on the Tower's top floor. Halo Sunchaser has a more modest apartment alongside the Penthouse, and of course, there is Jantzen Hefferly, who also shares this exclusive location.

The Penthouse's glass walls open north and east and front directly on Overlook Estates, a beautiful residential area of exclusive, high-end homes; but as the Tower is rotated slightly off a true north-south axis, Rodheimer also has views northwest toward The Docks and Cassel Dunes and southeast, taking in Central Park and Bay City High.

Notably, none of The Penthouse's windows open toward the more established Downtown area or the West Side of smaller, older structures that form the core of Old Town.

We first visit The Penthouse in Book 4 of The Human-Hybrid Project, Reflections of the Silverback.

Corona Tower is located in one of the most beautiful landscapes on the West Coast. Although the specific location is never pinpointed in the story, imagine central California, with its rocky coastline, tree-covered hills, and views that reach to forever.

From Corona Tower, views to the north include Harbor Shipyards, a premier facility for shipping and construction. Cranes and warehouses give the Shipyards a city vibe of their own.

Just west of the Shipyards, The Docks reveal the life of a vital port city, with ships constantly coming and going. Much of the city is built on a hillside, and the Shipyards can be seen from most anywhere in Bay City that isn't obstructed by trees or other buildings.

West from The Docks, the undulating landscape of Cassel Dunes stretches for miles along the water, forming a fist of a peninsula thrusting into the Pacific Ocean.

Directly west from the Tower offers views of Waldorf's Department Store closer in and Argyle Station and Interstate Transport farther out on the edge of the city. South reveals the new City Hall at Ninth and Forest and Old City Hall at First and Sycamore. 

Farther south, Bay City rises to greet Stanwick Hill, where the Ransom Communications Building splits the sky with a pantheon of antennae atop its spire.

Southeast provides views of Central Park, with its beautiful duck pond; The Martial Arts Center containing the Ai Kee! facility; and Bay City Medical Center, which used to be where Corona Tower now sits.

Directly east, Corona Tower offers views of Bay City High and its expansive athletic facilities; the marshy floodlands north of Scenic Drive; and the wooded hills bordering Bay City's eastern reaches.

There's a reason Bay City's elite are willing to pay to visit or live in Stamford Suites on the Tower's first six floors. Just look out the windows. The view is all the explanation you need.

We are introduced to the views from Corona Tower at the beginning of Book 1 of The Human-Hybrid Project, Shattered by Glass, but the views from higher up in the Tower are explored to a greater degree as the story develops in later books. Our final views from the Tower come in Book 10 of The Human-Hybrid Project, The Russian's Revenge, when Garik Shayk returns from the Yellowknife facility in Northwest Territories, Canada.