CityPlex Towers

City of Faith Medical and Research Center was a massive hospital located at 81st Street and Lewis Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Built by Oral Roberts University, it was the tallest hospital in the world (as well as one of the largest) during its brief period of operation. The complex is now predominantly office space. A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Nickname: Oil Capital of the World, Americas Most Beautiful City Location in the state of Oklahoma Coordinates: Country United States State Oklahoma Counties Tulsa, Osage, Wagoner, Rogers Mayor Kathy Taylor (D) Area    - City 483. ... Official language(s) None Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Area  Ranked 20th  - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²)  - Width 230 miles (370 km)  - Length 298 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... The Avenue of Flags at the main entrance to campus Oral Roberts University or ORU, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the largest charismatic Christian university in the world. ... Office types Class A office space Back office Front office Mobile office Paperless office Serviced office Small office/home office Virtual office Class A Office Space describes the highest quality office space locally available. ...

History

City of Faith was built between 1979 and 1981 debt free, during which time Oral Roberts claimed to have seen a 900-foot tall Jesus who encouraged him to continue the project. The hospital accepted its first patient in November, 1981. Although many argued that Tulsa did not need another hospital, Tulsa's continued growth soon led to a shortage of hospital beds. However, financial difficulties forced City of Faith to close in late 1989, just eight years after it opened. Most of the complex was subsequently converted to office space and leased out under the name CityPlex Towers. Although it was originally built debt free, mortgages were later taken out on it to finance its operation and other parts of the ministry. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oral Roberts (born January 24, 1918) is an American neo-Pentecostal televangelist. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Building

The complex consists of three towers. The tallest of these is the 60-story CityPlex Tower, which at 648 feet (198 m) is the second tallest building in Oklahoma after One Williams Center. The main tower is flanked by the 30-story CityPlex West Tower and the 20-story CityPlex East Tower, which reach heights of 348 feet (106 m) and 248 ft (76 m), respectively, covering over 2.2 million square feet of flexible office space.¹ All three towers are triangular in plan. Two of the towers are currently non-medical. The Cancer Treatment Centers of America operated in CityPlex West until April 2005, when they built their own facility. For other uses, see Skyscraper (disambiguation). ... A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three vertices and three sides which are straight line segments. ... Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) is a network of cancer hospitals and outpatient oncology clinics committed to treating the whole patient with integrative cancer treatment. ...

CityPlex features a futurist style of architecture similar to the Oral Roberts University campus across the street. Perspective drawing from La Citta Nuova, 1914, by Antonia SantElia. ...

For a long time, there was a radio station that broadcast from the 60th floor of the middle tower, and there is a dining room also located on the 60th floor giving a wonderful view of the Arkansas River and Tulsa.

The complex also includes an on-site daycare; three auditoriums with theatre-style seating; fitness center complete with a 1/7 mile jogging track, weight room and locker rooms; pharmacy; cafeteria; food court; dining room; convenience store; and catering. ¹

Until about 2002, the "Praying Hands" scuplture sat directly in front of the lobby of the City of Faith, with a series of fountains and streams going out from it to the road. It is a sixty-foot, thirty ton bronze sculpture, the largest at the time it was built.² The sculpture was then moved to the entrance to Oral Roberts University as there were negotiations taking place regarding the sale of CityPlex Towers. The Avenue of Flags at the main entrance to campus Oral Roberts University or ORU, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the largest charismatic Christian university in the world. ...

Trivia

• CityPlex West, the only tower still in use as a hospital, currently ranks as the eighth tallest hospital in the world^{[citation needed]}. If the main tower were still used as a hospital, it would easily be the tallest in the world.

• The rapper MC 900 Ft. Jesus takes his stage name from the 900-foot Jesus incident.

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External links

• Cityplex Towers
• Emporis

Sources

¹CityPlex website
²ORU website