{{Short description|Skyscraper in Dallas Texas}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox building | name = 1600 Pacific Tower | image = 1600PacificTower-LTVTower-Dallas.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = The 1600 Pacific Tower building in 2018 | location = 1600 Pacific Tower<br/>[[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]] | coordinates = {{Coord|32.781860|-96.799091|format=dms|display=inline,title|region:US_type:landmark}} | status = Completed | completion_date = | est_completion = | opening_date = 1964 | demolished_date = | destruction_date = | building_type = Office | antenna_spire = | roof = {{convert|434|ft|m|abbr=on}} | top_floor = | floor_count = 33 | elevator_count = 8 | cost = $16 million | floor_area = | architect = Harwood K. Smith, Dales Young Foster | structural_engineer = | main_contractor = [[The Beck Group]] | developer = | owner = HRI Properties | operator = | references = }}
'''1600 Pacific Tower''', also known as the '''LTV Tower''' (and also originally '''National Bank of Commerce Building'''), is a [[skyscraper]] in the [[City Center District, Dallas, Texas|City Center District]] of [[Dallas, Texas]], USA. The building rises {{convert|434|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}. The structure contains 33 floors, made up originally of office space (but now consists of a hotel and apartments), standing as the [[List of tallest buildings in Dallas|29th-tallest building]] in the city. The building is adjacent to [[Thanks-Giving Square]] and was, for a time, connected to the [[Dallas Pedestrian Network]].
==History== The building was designed in 1961 by architects Harwood K. Smith and Dales Young Foster and opened in 1964 as the fifth tallest building in Dallas.
Banking facilities for the National Bank of Commerce were located on the second and third floors, while the 28-story tower portion of the building contained the executive headquarters for LTV (Ling-Temco-Vought), Electro-Science Investors, and American Life Insurance Company plus other leasable space.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |title=Skyscraper Planned in Downtown Dallas |date=December 7, 1961}}</ref> 2 levels of parking are located below the structure.
The ground floor contained a marble and granite pedestrian mall connecting Elm Street and Pacific Avenue, open 24 hours a day for pedestrian passage. An innovative motor bank, called "Teller-Vision", allowed drive-up bank customers to conduct business over a closed circuit television system.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |title=Bank to Open New Building |date=May 31, 1964}}</ref> Terraces and gardens were located on the roof of the 3-story base, and the top floor of the building contained the private Lancers Club.
The building's facade was covered with {{convert|125000|sqft|m2}} of dark glass with strips of aluminum molding and contained the world's largest electronic signboard. Thirty windows on each of the twenty-five floors were individually controlled and could spell out different messages. It often spelled out "LTV", and even had a figure of [[Big Tex]] in lights during the State Fair.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |title=Signboard Will Cover 25 Stories |date=July 10, 1964}}</ref>
The quality of the building's construction has been debated over the years. During construction, a section of masonry broke loose and tons of bricks crashed through the roof of a neighboring building. Shortly after opening some of the windows cracked due to heat.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |title=First Wall, Now Glass Splits |date=December 3, 1964}}</ref>
In 1970 a bomb threat caused evacuation of the building.<ref>'{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |title=Bomb Warning Routes Workers at LTV Tower |date=April 4, 1970}}</ref>
The building was sold in 1968, and in 1975 the building was sold again to Dresser, Inc.<ref>[http://dallaslibrary.org/texas/photogallery/downtownliving/1600pacific.htm Dallas Public Library]</ref> The building went through a series of successive owners intending to convert it into residences, but because of economic conditions no plans immediately came to fruition. In 2010, work by a San Antonio-based developer began to renovate the building—which was to be renamed The Grand Ricchi—for residential and office condo use.
In 2014 a new plan was announced, to convert the building to a combination [[Hilton Garden Inn]] and apartments. The hotel lobby would be on the first floor, parking on floors 2–4, the hotel on floors 5–14, and the apartments on 15–32.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article78183.html|title = HRI Launches Reconstruction of Historic LTV Building in Downtown Dallas}}</ref> The apartments began occupancy in July 2015 and the hotel opened in September 2015.<ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Brown |newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |title=New residents are making a home in downtown Dallas' old LTV Tower |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/business/commercial-real-estate/headlines/20150806-new-residents-are-making-a-home-in-downtown-dallas-old-ltv-tower.ece |date=August 6, 2015 |accessdate=August 8, 2015}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/texas/hilton-garden-inn-downtown-dallas-DALPAGI/index.html Hilton Garden Inn-Downtown Dallas] hotel website * [http://www.ltvtowerapartments.com LTV Tower Apartments] website * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070101052556/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=1600pacific-dallas-tx-usa 1600 Pacific Tower]}} on Emporis.com * [http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=5058 1600 Pacific Tower] on SkyscraperPage.com * [http://dallaslibrary.org/texas/photogallery/downtownliving/1600pacific.htm History of 1600 Pacific], Dallas Public Library * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/fatguyinalittlecoat/3080290289/in/photostream/ Photo of damage during construction] * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/fatguyinalittlecoat/3081128928/in/photostream/ Photo of building's lighting]
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