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Heritage Plaza is a postmodern
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pyramid. This feature was inspired by the architect's visit to the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula. The crown of the building is also said to resemble an image of a bald eagle spreading its wings.
The interior lobby of Heritage Plaza was also designed with Mexico, Mexican influences. The lower levels of the building, which contain a large food court, contain a distinctive multi-level marble waterfall that falls from the lobby.
Heritage Plaza is one of the few skyscrapers in downtown Houston that is not directly connected to the extensive Houston skyscraper
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located in the Skyline District of downtown Houston, Texas
Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston
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. Standing at , the tower is the 5th-tallest building in Houston, the 8th-tallest in Texas, and the 60th-tallest in the United States. The building, designed by Houston-based M. Nasr & Partners P.C., was completed in 1987, and has 53 floors.
History
Heritage Plaza completed construction in early 1987. It was the last major office building completed indowntown Houston
Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10 in Texas, Interstate 10, Interstate 45, ...
in the midst of the collapse of the Texas
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real estate, banking, and oil industries in the 1980s. The building stood as the most recently completed major skyscraper in Houston for nearly 15 years, until the completion of 1500 Louisiana Street
1500 Louisiana Street, formerly Enron Center South, is a 600 ft (183m) tall skyscraper in Houston, Texas. It was completed in 2002 and has 40 floors and a total building area of 1,284,013sq.ft. It is the 17th tallest building in the city and ...
in 2002.
The building has of leaseable space, of which a vast majority sat vacant until Texaco
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leased in 1989. The building went on to serve as the US headquarters of Texaco for 12 years. In 2001, Heritage Plaza became the US headquarters of the ChevronTexaco
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corporation.
In 2005, Goddard Investment Group acquired the building. During that year, over in the building was unoccupied. In 2006, EOG Resources
EOG Resources, Inc. is an American energy company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It is organized in Delaware and headquartered in the Heritage Plaza building in Houston, Texas.
The company is ranked 186th on the Fortune 500 and 337th on th ...
announced that it will move from 3 Allen Center to Heritage Plaza. The firm had signed a 15-year lease for and planned to move around 400 employees. The firm, scheduled to move in early 2007, became the largest tenant in the building at the time.
In early 2007, Deloitte
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& Touche USA L.L.P. executed a lease to occupy as part of a 12-year, 10-floor lease with options to increase that space, if needed. The new lease consolidated staff from three Houston sites to one downtown location, making Deloitte the largest tenant in Heritage Plaza.Staff.Deloitte & Touche Inks 12-Year Lease for 300K SF in Houston." ''CP Executive
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Design
Heritage Plaza is well known because of its central location in the central business district skyline, and for the stepped granite feature located on the top of the building that resembles a Maya civilization">Mayan
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* Mayan languages, language family spoken ...tunnel network
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. It is, however, connected to the DoubleTree Hotel Houston-Allen Center
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through a skyway
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.
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Houston
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*List of tallest buildings in Texas
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*List of tallest buildings in the United States
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