Reserve Square is a two-building

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apartment complex in

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, United States. Both buildings have 23 floors and are 266 feet (81 m) high. The Square is directly west of the senior residential

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Bohn Towers The ''Bohn Towers'' is a 1972-erected 204-foot 22-story high-rise apartment building complex in the Reserve Square area of downtown Cleveland. It is named after one of the former directors of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, Ernest ...

. The complex was originally called Park Centre and was an extension of the Erieview Plan. One of the goals of this plan was to create residential zones in

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, however, by the 1970s with completion of the

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, One Erieview Plaza and Reserve Square this was only partially achieved.

History

The West Tower was built in 1969 and the East Tower in 1973. It was designed by the Cleveland architectural firm Dalton-Dalton-Newport-Little, which at one time was one of the most prominent firms in the world, so much so that in 1984, Dalton was acquired by URS Corp of

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. The exterior design was influenced by

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's public housing development Unité d'Habitation, a building notable for its interiors and minimal footprint on the ground. The aesthetic approaches

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with the way it utilizes raw cement features, though it is a bit less refined than that style. The West Tower contained an

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for a number of years, until it closed in 2012 and was converted back to apartments. Cleveland television stations

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and

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(which were both owned by

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, which has since been acquired by

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) have their broadcast studios on the building's first floor. They have been present in the tower since at least their switch to becoming the

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affiliate in Cleveland in 1994. The

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purchased the apartment tower for $36 million in August 2005, and purchased the hotel that December for $5.1 million.Bullard, Stan
K&D Group buys downtown hotel
'' Crain's Cleveland Business''. 2005-12-15.

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