AT&T Center (St. Louis)
One AT&T Center (formerly One SBC Center and One Bell Center) is a 44-story building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri at 909 Chestnut Street on the Gateway Mall. It is Missouri's largest building by area with 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m2).[4] The building is currently completely vacant and was acquired by new ownership in 2019.[5]
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Former names | One Bell Center SBC Building Southwestern Bell Telephone Building |
General information | |
Status | Complete |
Type | Commercial offices |
Location | 909 Chestnut Street St. Louis, Missouri |
Coordinates | 38.6277°N 90.1946°W |
Completed | 1986 |
Cost | US$150 million |
Owner | Inland Real Estate Group |
Height | |
Roof | 179 m (587 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 44 |
Floor area | 1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m2) |
Lifts/elevators | 24 |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum |
References | |
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The building was built to replace the Southwestern Bell Building as the Southwestern Bell world headquarters. However, in a series of mergers the headquarters moved to San Antonio, Texas and was later renamed AT&T.
In 2006 Inland American Real Estate Trust, a subsidiary of the Inland Real Estate Group in Chicago bought the building for $205 million. AT&T then signed a 10-year lease to be the sole tenant.[6]
At one point, 4,800 AT&T employees worked in the building but that number has dropped through layoffs, outsourcing and telecommuting to approximately 2,000. In September 2013, AT&T announced they would vacate the building over the next 12 months, although their lease on the building runs through 2017.[7]
References
- AT&T Center at Emporis
- "AT&T Center". SkyscraperPage.
- AT&T Center at Structurae
- One AT&T Center on sale block - bizjournals.com - September 1, 2006
- "New owner for former AT&T building in downtown St. Louis". FOX2now.com. 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- One AT&T Center bought by Chicago firm for $205 million - bizjournals.com - December 29, 2006
- AT&T to vacate downtown St. Louis high-rise next year - September 12, 2013