The Erieview Tower.

The Erieview Tower (also known as the Tower at Erieview, 100 Erieview, or the Erieview Plaza Tower) is a skyscraper located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The building has 40 stories and rises to a height of 529 ft (161 m). Taipei 101, considered the worlds tallest skyscraper. ... Downtown Cleveland, the industrial, cultural, and historic hub of Northeast Ohio, has experienced many changes over the years. ... Nickname: The Forest City Motto: Progress and Prosperity Official website: http://www. ...

The original Erieview urban renewal plan

The tower was the first and most significant structure of the Erieview urban renewal plan initiated by Mayor Anthony J. Celebrezze in late 1960. The project was originally conceived as a 163 acre (66 hectare) urban renewal area spanning from East 6th to East 17th Streets between Chester Avenue and Lake Erie. Architect I. M. Pei authored a master plan with extensive parks and greens subdivided by lengthy low-rise structures and a few stark high-rise buildings. The 40-story tower was to be the hub of the Pei plan. Blight often stands side-by-side with new structures during urban renewal efforts. ... Anthony Joseph Celebrezze Sr. ... Lake Erie, looking southward from a high rural bluff near Leamington, Ontario Lake Erie (pronounced ) is one of the five large freshwater Great Lakes in North America, which are among the largest in the world. ... The Louvre Pyramid, Paris Ieoh Ming Pei (Chinese: 貝聿銘; Hanyu Pinyin: ; b. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ...

Developers John Galbreath and Peter Ruffin broke ground on Harrison and Abramovitz's modernist skyscraper in early 1963. Construction went swiftly on the 703,000 square foot, dark-green-and-black wall structure and other additions as well including a massive tree-lined plaza with combined fountain/reflecting pool/ice rink, linking it to East 9th Street. It also contained an underground 450 car parking garage. The tower was completed in 1964 but the rest of the Erieview plan did not fare as well. Although much of the area was cleared for redevelopment, few other buildings were constructed, and a large amount of land was relegated to surface parking. So, into the late 1970s, the area became a somewhat cold and foreboding place to be, with the East 9th Street corridor a definite limit to downtown's growth. Modern architecture is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. ... A multi-storey car park is a building or part thereof which is designed specifically to be for vehicle parking and where there are a number of floors on which parking takes place. ... Parking lot is the American English term that refers to a cleared area that is more or less level and is intended for parking vehicles. ...

This changed somewhat under the mayoral administration of George V. Voinovich in the early 1980s when several new structures were built flanking the tower along East 9th Street. In 1987, The Galleria at Erieview, a two-level shopping mall was built on the former Plaza by the Richard E. Jacobs Group. The structure stretches from the tower's lobby to its arched entrance at East 9th Street. From 1964 until it closed in 1995, the tower's 38th floor was home to the Top of the Town restaurant, which offered diners a unique view of Cleveland's skyline. George Victor Voinovich (Vojnović in Serbian) (born July 15, 1936) is an American politician of the Republican party. ... The Galleria at Erieview is a 2 floor shopping mall that opened in 1987 in Cleveland, Ohio, on the east side of the citys downtown. ... The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota — the third-largest in the world. ...

External links

• The Tower at Erieview
• ClevelandSkyscrapers.com