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The Epic Center is a high-rise building located at 301 N. Main St. in
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had ...
. At 320 feet (top floor)/ 385 feet (tip of sloped roof), it is the tallest building in the state of Kansas. The tallest structure in the state is the KWCH 12 Tower
The KWCH 12 Tower is a 1,500 foot high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of TV programs and formerly FM in rural Reno County, Kansas, United States. It is almost centered between the cities of Hutchinson, Burrton, Buhler. (Geographi ...
.
History
Construction of the Epic Center began in October 1985. It officially opened for business in 1987. Created as a lure for businesses to the downtown area, the Epic Center helped create a "big city" feel for Wichita at a time when the economy was fluctuating. The building has 22stories
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above ground level.
Originally, the plans called for two twin towers to be built, but those plans were scrapped in favor of a single tower due to the fear that the occupancy level would never reach near capacity. At the time, this led to a local joke referring to the development as "Epic Off-Center", but that epithet is now largely forgotten.
In 2007, in a $1.4 billion transaction the Epic Center, One and Two Brittany Place and 31 other buildings, were acquired by real estate investment firm Behringer Harvard, when it acquired IPC US REIT.http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2007/12/10/daily25.html
Today
Today the building's tenants include law firms, banking and loan corporations, a field office of theSecret Service
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and Federal Bureau of Investigation
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, and many other businesses.
The Epic Center has of office space. Hinkle Elkouri Law Firm LLC, accounting firm Allen, Gibbs & Houlik LC and the North American headquarters of manufacturing firm Viega NA Inc. are its largest tenants.
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Wichita
This List of tallest buildings in Wichita ranks high-rises from a starting point of at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This measurement includes architectural details (such as spires), but this does not include Radio m ...
*List of tallest buildings by U.S. state
The following is a list of the tallest buildings by U.S. state and territory. Forty are in their state's largest city, and 18 are in their capital city. The tallest building in the U.S. by architectural height is currently One World Trade Cente ...
References
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