The Comerica Bank Tower (formerly Momentum Place , Bank One Center and Chase Center ) is a 60-storey postmodern skyscraper located at 1717 Main Street in Main Street District in downtown Dallas, Texas. Standing at a structural height of 787 feet (240 m), it is the third tallest skyscraper in the city of Dallas. (If the antenna and the Renaissance tower are excluded, Comerica Bank Tower will be the second highest.) This is also the sixth tallest building in Texas and the 61st tallest building in the United States. The building was designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee and completed in 1987. The structure has an office space of 1,500,000 square feet (100,000 m 2 ).
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Originally known as Momentum Place , the tower was built as the new headquarters of MCorp Bank. The site, which includes department stores Woolf Brothers and Volk Brothers, is one of the busiest blocks in downtown Dallas. The adjacent blocks include Marcis Neiman Building, Wilson Building, Titche-Goettinger Building, and Mercantile National Bank Building. The entire block from Ervay to St. Paul flattened to make way for the new tower. The original design as proposed by Johnson asks for several office buildings, hotels and a large shopping center designed in an ornate classical style. MCorp Bank wants even a more controlled office tower without retail; the design for the banking space is also scaled down.
Construction began in 1985 and the tower was opened in 1987, with MCorp initially leasing 600,000 square feet (56,000m 2 ) space after moving from the Mercantile National Bank Building. By the time the settlement was the most legally challenged building on the Dallas skyline due to the economic crisis of the late 1980s and the savings and loan scandals. The Bank's MCorp collapsed shortly after the opening of the building and the bank was dissolved by Bank One. Developers and financial supporters are suing ownership of the tower. The other parties failed in the loan, and the building was confiscated in 1991 and again in 1995, the two largest in the city's history. Without a major tenant, the tower was reprinted into a fully controlled AA classroom. Due to the economic downturn, this is the last tall building to be completed in the city center in the 1980s.
In 1997 Crescent Real Estate Equity, in partnership with Financer Trizec Properties, purchased Bank One Center from Cigna and the Texas Teacher Retirement System for $ 238 million.
On December 14, 2006, Crescent sold a structure for US $ 216 million to Real Estate based in Los Angeles Metropolitan Developers.
On March 6, 2007, Comerica announced its decision to relocate its corporate headquarters to Dallas. In August the company announced that it chose 1717 Main Street in Downtown Dallas and the tower would be renamed Comerica Bank Tower. Corporate executives began moving to 1717 Main Street in November 2007.
The Advertising Advertising Company plans to move into the building on January 2, 2008. It is scheduled to take four floors, with a total of 130,000 square feet (12,000m 2 ) space. 340 employees are scheduled to move there. The TM space previously moved was occupied by TXU Energy.
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Design
- This tower uses a traditional three-part skyscraper form with a top-down setback. The modern interpretation of the classical barrel dome is used throughout the structure, giving the building an entire art deco style. The setback carved the shape of the cross from the top of the building, but the glass sheets dropped like waterfalls from the safe and continued the illusion to the street level.
- The first five floors contain a large banking/exchange exchange hall with vaulted ceilings and ceilings.
- The building contains a 3rd level underground parking garage and is connected to Elm Street Garage, providing tenants with 1,530 parking spaces.
- The Comerica Tower is the main hub of the Dallas Pedestrian Network and features some underground retail space.
- The east side of the building has a small plaza with rows of trees and benches facing the Titche-Goettinger Building.
- This building has been heavily criticized for its poor urban environment on the street level. Lack of retail, long block walls of granite and polished dark glass cause the tower looks very tough. The western side entrance plaza, located in one of the busiest corners of downtown Dallas, isolates the building from the street instead of acting like an actual public space. At the time of opening, MCorp states that a hard exterior is intended. "We want a banking building, not an office building," said MCorp chairman Gene Bishop. "We do not want the block to be crowded and we win." In 2009, a small restaurant expansion was built along Main Street in the eastern square, hoping to reduce some of these problems.
See also
- List of tallest buildings in Dallas
- List of tallest buildings in Texas
- List of tallest buildings in the United States
References
External links
- Dallasarchitecture.info Comerica Bank Tower
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