BB&T Financial Center

BB&T Financial Center

BB&T Financial Center
General information
Type office
Location 200 W. 2nd Street
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Completed 1987
Height
Roof 340 ft
Top floor 264 ft
Technical details
Floor count 21

BB&T Financial Center is a 340-foot (100 m) postmodern green glass and steel skyscraper at 200 West 2nd Street in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina[1] with 271,445 square feet (25,218.1 m2) of space.[2] It was completed in 1987 and has 21 floors.[1] It has served as the headquarters of BB&T since the merger of BB&T and Southern National Bank in 1995. The 19th floor has The Piedmont Club, with 13,232 square feet (1,229.3 m2) feet.[2]

History

One Triad Park was completed in 1987 at a cost of $24 million. Aetna Life Insurance Co. bought the building in 1991 for $10.1 million after foreclosure when previous owners could not pay a $26 million loan.[3]

In the early 1990s, Southern National Bank was expanding and, although the headquarters stayed in Lumberton, North Carolina, the bank moved some operations to Winston-Salem. One Triad Park had 74,000 square feet (6,900 m2) of space Southern National could move into immediately.[4] In 1993, with Southern National taking 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2) on eight floors, the building's name changed to Southern National Financial Center on May 3.[5]

On August 1, 1994, BB&T and Southern National announced a "merger of equals". The merged bank would be called BB&T, though at first, the holding company remained Southern National.[6] The headquarters became BB&T Financial Center.[7] Southern National Corp. changed its name to BB&T Corp. in May 1997.[8] Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice was another major tenant.[9]

Parkway Properties Inc. of Jackson, Mississippi bought the building in 1996 for $25.5 million. Parkway sold the building to Cabot Investment Properties for $27 million in August 2003. Parkway Realty Services, a Parkway subsidiary, continued to manage the building. BB&T had 201,006 square feet (18,674.1 m2) as of 2002, and the Class A building was 97.5 percent occupied.[3]

In December 2011, Inland Private Capital Corp. of Oak Brook, Illinois bought BB&T Financial Center for $34.1 million. BB&T occupied 94 percent of the building, still considered Class A.[2]

In late 2014, investors bought BB&T Financial Center for $60 million, the most anyone ever paid per square foot for office space in the city.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "BB&T Financial Center". Emporis. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  2. 1 2 3 Craver, Richard (2012-01-12). "BB&T center has a new owner, Inland". Winston-Salem Journal. p. A11.
  3. 1 2 Louis, Brian (2003-08-23). "BB&T Financial Center Downtown Is Sold". Winston-Salem Journal. p. D1.
  4. ↑ Yandle, C.E. (1992-12-13). "Pulling up roots to go for broke: Southern National is banking on it". The News & Observer.
  5. ↑ "Office Building Will Change Its Name for Its Major Tenant". Greensboro News & Record. 1993-05-01. p. B7.
  6. ↑ Gray, Tim (1994-08-02). "BB&T, Southern National banks plan to merge". News & Observer.
  7. ↑ Wireback, Taft (1996-01-26). "Presidential Candidate Keyes Speaks in Triad". Greensboro News & Record. p. B2.
  8. ↑ "Year of Changes". Greensboro News & Record. 1997-07-20.
  9. ↑ "$15 Million Mortgage Taken Out on BB & T Building". Winston-Salem Journal. 1997-11-22.
  10. ↑ Craver, Richard (2014-12-23). "Investors purchase BB&T building for $60 million". Winston-Salem Journal.

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