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FirstBank Southwest Tower - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 35°12′26″N 101°50′20″W / 35.2073°N 101.8390°W

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FirstBank Southwest Tower
The FirstBank Southwest Tower in downtown Amarillo.
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Former names	SPS Tower Team Bank building Bank One Center Chase Tower Amarillo Tower
General information
Architectural style	Modernism
Address	600 South Tyler Street ^[1]
Town or city	Amarillo, Texas
Country	United States
Coordinates	35°12′26″N 101°50′20″W / 35.2073°N 101.8390°W / 35.2073; -101.8390
Completed	1971
Height	374 ft (114 m)
Technical details
Floor count	31

American National Bank of Amarillo and SPS Tower
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

NRHP reference No.	100003493
Added to NRHP	March 6, 2019

FirstBank Southwest Tower is a 374-foot (114 m), 31-story building located in Amarillo, Texas, United States. Formerly known as SPS Tower, Bank One Center, Chase Tower, and Amarillo Tower, it is the tallest building in Amarillo and the West Texas region. The building used to be the home of the Amarillo branch of American National Bank. The building also housed the offices of the region's electric power service provider, Southwestern Public Service (which was later acquired by Xcel Energy).^[2]

The Tower has a striking resemblance to the One Financial Plaza Building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The First Bank Southwest Tower is only about three stories taller than its counterpart.

In October 2008, the West Texas A&M University letters were installed on the First Bank Southwest Tower as part of the agreement to have university classes there.^[3]

In 2018, Chase decided to close its downtown Amarillo branch in the building. By June 2018, FirstBank Southwest reached an agreement to locate a downtown branch there and receive naming rights on the building in the process.^[4]^[5] The FDIC approved the application by October 2018, for FirstBank Southwest to have a branch in the building, and the bank plans to be operational there by the middle of 2019.^[6] Work began in late March 2019 to place the letters for the logo sign for FirstBank Southwest at the top of the tower in three places. The process was scheduled to take around two weeks' time.^[7]

The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 6, 2019.

Tenants

Tenants at FirstBank Southwest Tower include FirstBank Southwest, Amarillo Globe-News, Cactus Feeders,^[8] Tower Fitness, Tower Cafe, and the Amarillo Club, a members-only dining facility.^[9]

Notes

^ "Chase Tower". Skyscraper Center. CTBUH. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
^ Cheryl Berzanskis (June 10, 2004). "Bank One Center to be renamed in Chase merger". Amarillo Globe-News.
^ "WT brands Chase Tower". amarillo.com. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
^ Seymore, Jami (June 12, 2018), "From Chase Tower to FirstBank Southwest Tower: Amarillo landmark to get new tenant and new name", KFDA-TV/Raycom Media. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
^ Watkins, Matthew (June 11, 2018), "Amarillo Tower changing name to FirstBank Southwest Tower", KVII. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
^ "Let's Get Started", fbswdowntown.com, October 9, 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
^ Destiny Richards, "FirstBank Southwest sign placement begins downtown", KFDA-TV, March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
^ Jami Seymore, "Making a move: Cactus Feeders moving corporate office to FirstBank Southwest Tower in downtown Amarillo", KFDA-TV, August 10, 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
^ "FirstBank Southwest Tower (leasing information)", Gaut Whittenburg Emerson. Retrieved 2019-03-23.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to FirstBank Southwest Tower.

Tower owner's official site
FBSW Downtown branch site
Chase Tower (Amarillo)^[usurped] on Emporis
Video tour of portions of the Tower, February 2018

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