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Crosstown Concourse
The Crosstown Concourse is an art deco high-rise building in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally built as a Sears mail-order processing warehouse and retail store, the building is currently being renovated into a mixed-use vertical urban village.
== History ==
The building was designed by Nimmons & Co., and construction was started on February 21, 1927. Known as the Sears Crosstown Building, it was one of the first Sears stores designed to attract customers by being situated in a relatively open area of the city and providing a large amount of free parking.〔, p.257-58〕 The location was also ideal for its access to highways and on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad line.〔, p.52〕 Officially opened on August 27, 1927, the Sears Crosstown Building was the largest building in Memphis to date at 650,000 square feet.〔, p.54〕 Three thousand people attended the opening ceremony and over 47,000 people (one in four Memphians) toured the building by the day's end.〔, p.58〕 At a cost of $5 million, the building was constructed in only 180 days, with work crews operating 24 hours a day, six days a week.〔, p. 59〕 Sears & Roebuck's eighth regional distribution center included a soda fountain, luncheonette, employee cafeteria, and in-house hospital.〔, p.60-61〕 The Crosstown Building was a premier Sears retail store for more than 60 years.The building became vacant in the early 1990s after Sears closed many of the buildings it had constructed in the 1920s: the store that had occupied the lower floors was closed in 1983, and the catalog distribution center in 1993.
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