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Towering Progress
Construction of IP’s new East Memphis building reaches next stage
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The shell of the newest addition to the East Memphis office skyline is complete, setting the stage for exterior work on International Paper’s new building to begin.

“The structure has been built and now they’re starting from the ground up putting the skin on the building,” said Matthew Marzolf, director of development for Highwoods Properties Inc. in Memphis.

The new building will include almost 3.1 million pounds of structural steel, the equivalent of 253 African elephants. The project includes around 10,966 cubic yards of ready-mix concrete material, which equals over 1,100 concrete trucks delivered to the site, and 189 miles of wiring.

While the new 241,000-square-foot building will look slightly different from IP’s current Highwoods’ campus, it will have many of the same touches. The first three floors of the exterior will feature a granite and glass exterior and the rest of the building will be mostly glass.

“The materials will be similar and you will be able to tell they’re related buildings,” Marzolf said. “This will have more glass. The palette is the same but the way it is painted is different.”

The building will also feature abundant landscaping, although maybe not at the same level as the existing IP campus, which features over 30 varieties of trees and has long served as a sort of urban forest along the city’s most-coveted office corridor.

“It will not be landscaped to that extent but we will have landscaping so you will know it is part of the campus across the street,” Marzolf said.