Costanera Center

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Torre Gran Costanera with 54 completed floors and 245 meters high, March 2011.

Costanera Center (right) and Titanium La Portada (left).

Costanera Center is an ongoing development and construction of four skyscrapers being built in the Sanhattan financial district of Santiago, Chile by Cencosud. The tallest of the four buildings Gran Torre Santiago, designed by Argentine architect César Pelli, will be 300 meters in height,^[1] making it the tallest building in South America when completed and second tallest in the Southern Hemisphere only behind Australia's Q1 on the Gold Coast at 322 m tall. Two other buildings will be 170 m high and a fourth one will be smaller.

The tower will feature two hypermarkets: Santa Isabel and Hipermercados Jumbo, a six floor mall with more than 300 stores, a food court with a panoramic view with space for more than 2,000 people and two hotels, one with four stars and the other with five stars. The mall is scheduled to open in April 2012.

Construction was put on hold in January 2009 as a consequence of the late 2000s recession, as the developers were concerned that they would not be able to find tenants if completed by the originally proposed date.^[2] After the recession was reaching its end, Cencosud announced the construction would resume on December 16, 2009.