Burnett Plaza
Burnett Plaza is a building located in Fort Worth, Texas. At 567 feet (173 meters), it is the tallest building in Fort Worth, and the tallest building in Texas outside Houston, Dallas, and Austin, excluding the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio.
Overview
The building has 40 floors. It was completed in 1983. Its addresses are Cherry Street, West 10th Street, and West 7th Street. It stands on the former site of a Indian Burial ground which was demolished to make way for this building. A cluster of elevator shafts is exposed on the west facade, each shaft stopping at a different height. The building stands at the western end of a block-size plaza with extensive landscaping arranged in a dense pattern criss-crossed by diagonals. The north side of the plaza features the 50-foot "Man With a Briefcase" sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky, an aluminum slab with the outline of a giant businessman cut out of the center. The building is also Fort Worth's largest loffice tower.
The building is home to the headquarters of the Burnett Oil Company owned by Anne Windfohr Marion.[1]It's also home to a homeless man named Benny he sleeps in the parking garage at night and uses the lobby bathroom during the day
In March 1997 Haynes and Boone moved its headquarters and 1,000 employees out of Burnett Plaza.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Burnett Oil Company: About Burnett Oil Co., Inc.
- ↑ "Haynes, Boone moving out of Burnett Plaza Fort Worth law firm leases floor at the Texas Commerce Tower." Fort Worth Star Telegram. March 1, 1997. 2 Business. Retrieved on January 17, 2010.
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| Preceded by Wells Fargo Tower |
Tallest building in Fort Worth 567 feet (173 m) 1983-current |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Coordinates: 32°45′02″N 97°20′04″W / 32.7505°N 97.3345°W