The McCoy Center is an
office building
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located in
Columbus, Ohio. The building was acquired by
JPMorgan Chase & Co. with its 2004 merger with
Bank One Corporation
Bank One Corporation was an American banks in the United States, bank founded in 1968 and at its peak the sixth-largest bank in the United States. It traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol ONE. The company merged with JPMorg ...
. Formally known as the Corporate Center Columbus (or more often and colloquially "Polaris"), the building was renamed after the merger to honor the McCoy family, who led the Columbus-based Bank One for three generations. Inside is a
gift shop
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,
Starbucks,
Which Wich?
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,
Saladworks
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, recreational game room, shipping center, car rental, nurse's station, health & wellness center, one
cafeteria, a bistro, multiple Chase
automated teller machine
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s, and a personal banker.
The building is located off Polaris Parkway, home of the
Polaris Fashion Place
Polaris Fashion Place is a two level shopping mall and surrounding retail plaza serving Columbus, Ohio, United States. The mall, owned locally by Washington Prime Group, is located off Interstate 71 on Polaris Parkway in Delaware County just to ...
mall.
The facility—¼ mile from end to end—houses approximately 13,000 employees in a space equal in square footage to the
Empire State Building. With four floors and , it is the largest JPMorgan Chase & Co. facility in the world, the largest office building in the
Columbus, Ohio area, and the second largest single-tenant office building in the
United States
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behind
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense. It was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II. As a symbol of the U.S. military, the phrase ''The Pentagon'' is often used as a meton ...
,
from which the McCoy Center has borrowed its way-finding system. Only a handful of office buildings in the U.S. - the 5.7 million-square-foot
Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Building
The Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center is part of the University of Washington in Seattle and the world's largest single university building with a total floor area of . Although the building is made up of over 20 wings built over more t ...
in Seattle and the 4.4 million-square-foot McDermott Building in San Antonio among them - are bigger.
Starting in 2017, Chase began a $200 million renovation of the facility which is still ongoing
References
External links
Chase Polaris on Wikimapia
JPMorgan Chase buildings
Office buildings in Columbus, Ohio
Office buildings completed in 1996
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