1600 Pacific Tower

Skyscraper in Dallas Texas February 2025 1600 Pacific Tower 1600PacificTower-LTVTower-Dallas.jpg 200px The 1600 Pacific Tower building in 2018 1600 Pacific TowerDallas, Texas, USA 32.781860 -96.799091 dms inline,title region:US_type:landmark Completed 1964 Office 434 ft m on 33 8 $16 million Harwood K. Smith, Dales Young Foster The Beck Group HRI Properties 1600 Pacific Tower, also known as the LTV Tower (and also originally National Bank of Commerce Building), is a skyscraper in the City Center District of Dallas, Texas, USA. The building rises 434 ft m off us. The structure contains 33 floors, made up originally of office space (but now consists of a hotel and apartments), standing as the 29th-tallest building in the city. The building is adjacent to Thanks-Giving Square and was, for a time, connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network. History The building was designed in 1961 by architects Harwood K. Smith and Dales Young Foster and opened in 1964 as the fifth tallest building in Dallas. Banking facilities for the National Bank of Commerce were located on the second and third floors, while the 28-story tower portion of the building contained the executive headquarters for LTV (Ling-Temco-Vought), Electro-Science Investors, and American Life Insurance Company plus other leasable space.The Dallas Morning News Skyscraper Planned in Downtown Dallas December 7, 1961 2 levels of parking are located below the structure. The ground floor contained a marble and granite pedestrian mall connecting Elm Street and Pacific Avenue, open 24 hours a day for pedestrian passage. An innovative motor bank, called "Teller-Vision", allowed drive-up bank customers to conduct business over a closed circuit television system.The Dallas Morning News Bank to Open New Building May 31, 1964 Terraces and gardens were located on the roof of the 3-story base, and the top floor of the building contained the private Lancers Club. The building's facade was covered with 125000 sqft m2 of dark glass with strips of aluminum molding and contained the world's largest electronic signboard. Thirty windows on each of the twenty-five floors were individually controlled and could spell out different messages. It often spelled out "LTV", and even had a figure of Big Tex in lights during the State Fair.The Dallas Morning News Signboard Will Cover 25 Stories July 10, 1964 The quality of the building's construction has been debated over the years. During construction, a section of masonry broke loose and tons of bricks crashed through the roof of a neighboring building. Shortly after opening some of the windows cracked due to heat.The Dallas Morning News First Wall, Now Glass Splits December 3, 1964 In 1970 a bomb threat caused evacuation of the building.'The Dallas Morning News Bomb Warning Routes Workers at LTV Tower April 4, 1970 The building was sold in 1968, and in 1975 the building was sold again to Dresser, Inc.Dallas Public Library The building went through a series of successive owners intending to convert it into residences, but because of economic conditions no plans immediately came to fruition. In 2010, work by a San Antonio-based developer began to renovate the building—which was to be renamed The Grand Ricchi—for residential and office condo use. In 2014 a new plan was announced, to convert the building to a combination Hilton Garden Inn and apartments. The hotel lobby would be on the first floor, parking on floors 2–4, the hotel on floors 5–14, and the apartments on 15–32.http://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article78183.html HRI Launches Reconstruction of Historic LTV Building in Downtown Dallas The apartments began occupancy in July 2015 and the hotel opened in September 2015.Steve Brown The Dallas Morning News New residents are making a home in downtown Dallas' old LTV Tower http://www.dallasnews.com/business/commercial-real-estate/headlines/20150806-new-residents-are-making-a-home-in-downtown-dallas-old-ltv-tower.ece August 6, 2015 August 8, 2015 References External links Hilton Garden Inn-Downtown Dallas hotel website LTV Tower Apartments website 1600 Pacific Tower on Emporis.com 1600 Pacific Tower on SkyscraperPage.com History of 1600 Pacific, Dallas Public Library Photo of damage during construction Photo of building's lighting Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Dallas Category:Office buildings completed in 1964