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The Frost Bank Tower is a skyscraper in Austin, Texas, United States. Standing 515 feet (157 m) tall with 33 floors, it is the third tallest building in Austin, behind The Austonian and the 360 Condominiums.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/?id=101341 )〕 It was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003 as a class A office building with of leasable space.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tstacy.com/development_casestudies_detail.php?case_study_id=4 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://steelbuildingshq.com/frost-bank-tower/ )〕 It was the first high-rise building to be constructed in the United States after the 9/11 attacks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=101593 )〕 The building was officially dedicated in January 2004.〔 The Frost Bank Tower was designed by Duda/Paine Architects, LLP and HKS, Inc.. It carries the highest logo in the city at . This advertises the San Antonio-based Frost National Bank, whose Austin headquarters and insurance division are in the building.〔 Offices in the building besides Frost Bank include the Austin offices of Morgan Stanley and Ernst & Young, as well as the headquarters of the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), managers of the Permanent University Fund. The silvery blue color glass facade was first used on the Reuters Building in New York City.〔 Cousins sold the building in 2006 to Equity Office Properties Trust for $188 million before they sold the building to Thomas Properties the same year. In 2013 ownership of the building transferred to Parkway Properties. ==History== In 1998, T.Stacy & Associates consolidated tracts of land at the building site, at the time a vacant lot, and sold it to Cousins Properties in 2001.〔 Their original plan called for a building with 27 floors, but the final plan called for a tall building with 33 floors.〔 As the building began construction on November 27, 2001, it became the tallest building in the United States of America to be constructed after the September 11 attacks.〔 Construction was finished about 2 years later in 2003, and the tower was officially dedicated in 2004. It became the tallest building in Austin, Texas, and the fourth tallest building outside of Dallas and Houston, Texas (excluding the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=25 )〕 In August 2003 cost of the building was estimated at $137 million.〔Rea, Mark (2003). (Frost Bank Tower To Give New Glow To Austin Skyline ). Texas Construction Magazine, 08/2003. Accessed 2010-05-05.〕 After Austin's skyscraper construction boom, which began in 2007, Frost Bank Tower was soon surpassed in height by the 360 Condominiums at in 2008. As of March 2011, it is the 54th tallest building in Texas.〔 In 2006, Cousins Properties decided to sell the building for $188 million to Equity Office Properties, whom eventually sold it to Thomas Properties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2006/08/04/TopStories/Frost.Bank.Tower.Sold-2143384.shtml ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allbusiness.com/real-estate/commercial-residential-property/5345542-1.html ) 〕 Currently, there are many notable tenants in the building, including Frost Bank, Morgan Stanley, Ernst & Young, UTIMCO, and Heritage Title Co. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frost Bank Tower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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