550 South Tryon
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| Wachovia Corporate Center | |
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| File:Wachovia Corporate Center Charlotte.JPG | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 534 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC |
| Estimated completion | 2009 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 764ft (233 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 52 |
| Floor area | 450,494 m² |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Tvsa |
| References | |
| [1] | |
The Wachovia Corporate Center is a 764ft (233 m) tall, 52 floor skyscraper in Charlotte, North Carolina. When completed in 2009, it will become the second tallest building in Charlotte, and the tallest in the world to use precast double trees.[2] Upon completion, it will replace One Wachovia Center as the headquarters of Wachovia. Wachovia will occupy 450,000 square feet of the 1.2 millon square foot tower. Duke Energy will also occupy 240,000 square feet on the 36th through the 45th floors, Sonnenschein will use 35,000 square feet on the 34th and 35th floors, and the Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management will have its Charlotte campus in the tower.[3][4]
Construction
The project was announced in spring of 2004, and offical renderings were not relased until December 6, 2006. In the original petition to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission the building was going to be built on a 1.29 acre parcel next to 400 South Tryon with a height of 510 feet, and 34 floors. The site preperation began with the demolition of a Firestone Tire dealership in February 2006, and on February 28, 2006, the excavation and blasting of a 100-foot-deep hole for the below grade parking garage began. Over 600,000 pounds of explosives were used during its excavation and it took just over 60,000 dump truck loads to remove all of the excavated material from the site, some of witch will be used in the construction of a third runway at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.[5]
Features
It will be the tallest building in the Wachovia Cultural Campus which will have an 250,000-square foot footprint. The complex will also include the 42 floor Wachovia Condominium Tower, the Afro-American Cultural Center, and the Bechtler Art Museum.[6] In order to achieve LEED gold status it will include water-saving plumbing devices, a water storage system that will treat rainwater to be used for cooling tower make-up water and a green roof. Rock that was blasted for the parking structure is being recycled by hauling it to a local quarry, where it will be crushed for gravel.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Wachovia Corporate Center". skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Wachovia Corporate Center". theconcreteproducer.com. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Wachovia Corporate Center". Charlotte Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Wachovia Corporate Center". Charlotte Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Wachovia Corporate Center". emporis.com. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Wachovia Corporate Center". putzmeister.com. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Wachovia Corporate Center". Batson-Cook Construction. Retrieved 2008-05-27.