TIAA Bank Center is a skyscraper in

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, USA. Standing 447 feet (136 m) tall, it is the city's third-tallest building, as well as the largest in terms of class "A" rentable area with .
LoopNet Office Property For Lease, AT&T Tower Formerly known as the Southern Bell Telephone Building, the AT&T Tower, and EverBank Center, it took its former name in 2012 when

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moved employees into the building and acquired signage rights. The building is currently called

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Center, although no formal announcement has been made, and signage changes have not been completed, as of EverBank's rebranding, effective on June 4, 2018.

History

The building was designed by KBJ Architects and opened in 1983. It takes up an entire city block in Jacksonville's downtown. The building was built by The Auchter Company. A notable feature of the structure is that each floor has 16 corner offices.
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Telephone company. The following year,

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(AT&T) was forced to divest its regional phone companies and Southern Bell became a unit of

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; the signage was changed to reflect the new name. In 2006 AT&T re-acquired BellSouth and the signage was changed back to AT&T in 2008.Trinidad, Alison (January/February 2009). '' Jacksonville Magazine's 904'', pp. 24-25. In 2011

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vacated space it had rented in the tower, leaving it mostly empty. Later that year the City of Jacksonville finalized a deal with

, in which the bank received tax incentives to relocate over 1,200 employees into the building and add 200 jobs. EverBank took over nine floors and acquired the naming rights to the tower, which was renamed EverBank Center. Employees moved into the building in summer 2012, with signage installed in September and October.

Details

The entrance to the building features a two-story atrium.

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, Properties, AT&T Tower There is a 280-seat auditorium on the second level and a backup power system for the entire building. The JTA Skyway central station is across the street and an adjoining seven-level parking garage has spaces for 641 vehicles. The building was purchased in 2004 by El Ad Florida for $91 million. In 2014 the building was acquired by Amkin Real Estate, a privately owned real estate investment company based in Miami, FL.

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