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Henry DeFord III of Citicorp claimed the Citicorp Center could withstand a 100-year wind [33] and that there were no "noticeable problems in the building at all". [34] As precautions, emergency generators were installed for the mass damper, strain gauges were placed on critical beams and weather forecasters were engaged. [21]
The building was designed by architect Hugh Stubbins, associate architect Emery Roth & Sons, and structural engineer William LeMessurier. The Citigroup Center takes up much of a city block bounded clockwise from the west by Lexington Avenue, 54th Street, Third Avenue, and 53rd Street. Land acquisition took place from 1968 to 1973; St. Peter's ...
Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Bill was the youngest of four children of Bertha (Sherman) and William James LeMessurier Sr., owners of a dry cleaning business.After finishing high school, he left Michigan to major in Mathematics at Harvard College.
777 Tower (originally known as Citicorp Center and also known as Pelli Tower) is a 221 m (725 ft), 52-story high-rise office building designed by César Pelli located at 777 South Figueroa Street in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles, California.
In exchange, Citicorp funded a $8.5 million improvement to the nearby Court Square–23rd Street station and created a 16,000 square feet (1,500 m 2) plaza for public use. It also built a 750-car parking garage nearby. [14] Citicorp initially intended to lease part of the building, but eventually decided to occupy the entire space itself.
BayernLB bought the building in 1999 from subsidiaries of Citigroup and Dai-ichi Life for between $170–175 million, or $310–320 per ft² ($3,337-3,445 per m²). [7] By 2010, it was owned by Broadway Partners Fund Manager, LLC. [8]
The decision, announced internally in a bank memo Thursday, is the latest example of how Citigroup is paring back its ambitions as it tries to revive its stock price and remove decades of bloat.
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