SAN ANTONIO | Frost Bank Headquarters | 386 FEET | 23 FLOORS
http://therivardreport.com/san-anton...efine-skyline/
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The tower is planned for a parking lot across the street from their current headquarters in the grey and black tower. Once the new headquarters is built, Frost Bank will turn over ownership of the old tower to the City of San Antonio for city offices.
The tower will occupy the tree lined parking lot in the middle bottom of the image. http://i.imgur.com/CK1b7TA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BBO7o9G.jpg http://i.imgur.com/alsiG6B.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4os68SD.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vRZNLzS.jpg |
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...wn-5582065.php
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Thanks for starting the thread Kevin. It's our first one in this section in quite awhile. Hopefully we really do get a signature tower out of this.
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A skyscraper with a total of 400,000 sq ft.?that's a small floor plate!
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Sounds like it could be at least twice the height of anything in the area, a true skyline changer. |
It's still unclear if they plan to put those 300 units in the office tower or if they'll be in other buildings. Part of the deal also includes the developer gaining ownership of 3 or 4 older smaller buildings that the city currently owns. And then there is the size of the property where the tower will go. It's a full block. 400,000 square feet does seem kind of small for such a tall building. It would have to be a slender tower to achieve that kind of height. Plus companies these days favor office buildings with large floor plates for efficiency. I could see it happening if the office portion of the building has a larger footprint with residential units above in smaller floor plates in either a sloped or stepped tower. We'll see. In one of the articles it did state the desire for a public plaza, so it's possible part of the block size could be dedicated to a plaza which would make the tower more slender. I'm loving the idea of San Antonio getting a really tall building.
San Antonio's tallest now is the Weston Centre, which is owned by the same company that is developing this tower. The Weston Centre is 466 feet with 33 floors. The Tower of the Americas is 622 feet to the roof and 750 feet to the antenna. |
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Some more info about the tower. Everything is still preliminary so I'm sure it'll be different from this, but the tallest stacking plan showed it at 518 feet. They haven't actually designed the building yet, so that's only an estimate. They also have some placeholder renderings to show that relative height.
The stacking plan is on page 50. https://webapps.sanantonio.gov/bidli...8180323470.pdf |
518' would be quite nice if it ends up being that height. It would be a skyline changer for sure.
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/real-est...er-6307001.php
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And one of these days I suppose we'll see a rendering.
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I'm willing to be patient and wait if it means we'll see a good design.
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Full Article: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...300144275.html
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Giggity.
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/real-est...photo-10506662
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What happen?It's half the size we were looking for.
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Beautiful building.
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Nice design. That short and stubby look though is asking for more height.
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Love the crown.
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