Comerica Bank Tower
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| Location | 1717 Main Street Dallas, Texas  United States |
| Status | Complete |
| Constructed | 1987 |
| Opening | August 1987 |
| Use | office |
| Roof | 787 feet (240 m) |
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| Floor count | 60 |
| Floor area | 1,500,000 square feet (100,000 m²) |
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| Architect | Philip Johnson & John Burgee |
| Owner | 1717 Dallas Partners LLC[1] |
Comerica Bank Tower[1] (formerly Bank One Center and Chase Center) is a 60-story postmodern skyscraper located at 1717 Main Street in downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). Standing at a structural height of 787 feet (240 m), it is the third tallest skyscraper in the city of Dallas. (If one were to exclude antennas and spires, it would be the second tallest.) It is also the sixth tallest building in Texas and the 46th-tallest building in the United States. The building was designed by Philip Johnson & John Burgee and was completed in 1987. The structure has 1,500,000 square feet (100,000 m²) of office space.
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[edit] History
Comerica Bank Tower was originally built to be the headquarters of MCorp Bank, which moved from the nearby Mercantile National Bank Building. Originally known as Momentum Place, the Comerica Bank Tower was completed in August 1987. MCorp Bank initially leased 600,000 square feet (56,000 m²) of the space in the tower. However, the bank was on the verge of collapse because of the economic downturn of the late 1980s and the savings and loan scandal. Bank One dissolved the bank and the building was reverted into fully leasable class A office space. Due to the economic downturn, this was the last high-rise to be completed in Downtown until the groundbreaking of One Arts Plaza in 2005.
On December 14, 2006, Crescent Real Estate Equities, who jointly owned the structure with Trizec Properties, sold the structure for US$216 million to Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Real Estate Developers.[2]
On August 13, 2007, Comerica Bank announced that it would move its corporate headquarters to the building. The decision to move the company's headquarters from Detroit, Michigan was made on March 6, 2007.[3]
[edit] See also
- List of tallest buildings in Dallas
- List of tallest buildings in Texas
- List of tallest buildings in the United States
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Comerica Announces Site of New Corporate Headquarters in Texas", Comerica Inc., 2007-08-13. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
- ^ Brown, Steve. "Bank One Center sold to investors", The Dallas Morning News, Belo Corp., 2007-12-15. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
- ^ "Comerica to Relocate Corporate Headquarters to Dallas", Comerica Inc., 2007-03-06. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
[edit] External links
- Comerica Bank Tower is at coordinates Coordinates:
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