Downtown: PPG Place: Facts

From PPG Place promotional brochure, April 1985.

Significant Dates

Groundbreaking:

28 January 1981

PPG Move into Tower:

August-December 1983

Retail Opening, Building Two:

14 November 1983

Complex Dedication:

11 April 1984

Details

Architects:

John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson, New York

Area of Complex:

5.5 Acres, including 1 acre plaza

Buildings:

One, 40 stories; Two, Three, Four & Five, 6 stories; Six, 14 stories

Rentable Space:

1.5 million square feet office, 70,000 square feet retail

Tower Height:

635 feet

Height of Tower Corner Spires:

82 feet

Total Number of Spires:

231

Tower Spire Lights:

Fluorescent lamps in corner spires & four medium-height spires

Glass:

Nearly 1 million square feet neutral silver Solarban 550 clear reflective glass units by PPG; tower glazed with 19,750 pieces of glass

Wintergarden:

13,000 square feet, height 50 feet to skylight peaks

Tower Lobbies:

East 50 feet high, west 24 feet high, core paneled in Brandied Crimson Spandrelite glass by PPG; 21 passenger & 2 freight elevators in 4 banks, passenger units paneled with unique laminated cracked glass "mirror"

Garage:

700 car capacity, 3 levels under ground

Obelisk:

Designed by Philip Johnson & John Burgee, 44 feet high, rose granite

PPG Place Population:

About 6,000 at full occupancy

Retail Operations:

2 levels Building Two, ground floors of Buildings Three, Four, Five, Six

Entertainment Space:

Plaza, Wintergarden, Atrium, Promenade

Cost:

$200 million

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