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One Tampa City Center

Identification

Name

Alternative name

GTE Center, Verizon Building

EBN

128589

Building type

skyscraper

Building status

existing [completed]

Facade material

glass

Facade system

curtain wall

Facade color

blue

Architectural style

modernism

Main usage

commercial office

Side usage

shop(s) restaurant parking

Tallest building in Florida from 1981 - 1984; surpassed by Wachovia Financial Center in Miami.
The office tower was a Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) award-winner for excellence in management experience.
The office center has a parking ratio of 1/1000.
Surpassed Park Tower in 1981 as the tallest building in Tampa, and was the city's tallest until completion of Bank of America Plaza in 1986.
In 1991 the building was the first Florida skyscraper to install a "building-wide" recycling system.
Despite other high-rises downtown, the building never had tenant vacancy problems because of its large and consistent tenant, Verizon (formerly GTE).
In January 2001 the new Verizon sign was installed at the building's top as the company renamed from GTE.
The building's cement elevator shaft core was constructed to its full height before vertical construction began on the building's floors.