Frankfurter Büro Center (German for ''Frankfurt Office Centre''), also known as FBC, is a 40-storey, skyscraper in the
Westend-Süd district of
Frankfurt
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, Germany. It was designed by architect Richard Heil from Frankfurt. The building's
anchor tenant
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is the international law firm
Clifford Chance
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.
Background
Due to the oil crisis the construction of the skyscraper got stuck in 1975. Until 1979 no investor had been found to finish the building because of high construction costs and a lack of prospective tenants for the office space. Later the ECE project development company stepped in and reached an agreement with owners and artisans, and developed a construction program for completion and technical improvement as well as a rental concept. In 1981 the tower was finally finished and comprised approximately of gross floor area. As of end of April 2007 approximately of office space on the lower 20 floors were not let. Thus, the occupancy rate was approximately 65 percent.
The building was owned by DEGI, an open property fund of
Dresdner Bank from 1985 to 2007 and then sold to the
Goldman Sachs
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Whitehall Fund. In 2016 it was acquired by PBM Germany, a construction company from Berlin.
FBC sold to PBM
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See also
* List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
The tallest structure in Frankfurt is the Europaturm, which rises however, the observation tower is not generally considered a high-rise building as it does not have successive floors that can be occupied. The tallest habitable building in Fra ...
* List of tallest buildings in Germany
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* List of tallest buildings in the European Union
This list ranks the tallest buildings in the European Union that stand at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This means that spires and other architectural details are included in the official height, but not Radio masts and towe ...
References
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Office buildings completed in 1981
Skyscrapers in Frankfurt
Skyscraper office buildings in Germany