A recent article about the unbuilt second Cityplace tower:
Cityplace's unbuilt twin awaits a buyer
12:00 AM CDT on Friday, August 22, 2008
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.4e7653c.html
A skyscraper project that never made it off the drawing board two decades ago is still waiting for the right buyer.
Tons of granite - bought and cut for a second 42-story Cityplace Tower - sit in a south Dallas County storage yard. 'If you need to build a red granite skyscraper, see me first,' says the president of Cityplace Co.
When developers built the 42-story Cityplace Tower on North Central Expressway in Dallas, they expected to keep going with more construction.
So in the mid-1980s, they ordered enough pink and red Brazilian granite to build a twin Cityplace skyscraper plus several smaller office buildings.
The real estate bust put an end to the grand plans. Only the one tower was built.
But tons of leftover granite are piled up in a south Dallas County storage yard.
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