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American General Center

American General Center, Office buildings complex in Neartown Houston, United States

The American General Center is a complex of several office buildings along Allen Parkway in Neartown Houston, Texas. Its main tower, the America Tower, is a 590 ft (180 m) skyscraper completed in 1983 with 43 floors, rising as a narrow slab with a rounded left edge. Its facade is a dense grid of dark rectangular windows set between light gray or beige vertical and horizontal bands, topped by a flat roof with a solid light-colored mechanical enclosure. The other buildings are the Life Building, the Wortham Tower, the Woodson Tower (also called the Liberty Tower) and the Riviana Building.

The complex was built in the 1980s around the headquarters of American General Corporation, one of the country's leading insurance groups at the time. After AIG acquired the company in 2001, the main tenants changed, but the name of the complex stayed.

The complex is home to the headquarters of Corebridge Financial, one of the largest life insurance companies in the country. This gives the site a notable weight in Houston's business world that goes beyond ordinary office use.

The complex lines Allen Parkway in Neartown, west of Downtown Houston, not Midtown. The buildings are working offices, so there is no public visiting; the tower's rounded left edge and dense grid of dark windows are best seen from the parkway or the opposite bank of Buffalo Bayou. Tenants include Baker Hughes and Corebridge Financial.

Although the complex takes its name from American General Corporation, that company has not existed independently for over 20 years, having been absorbed by AIG. It is an unusual case where a corporate name has outlasted the company that once defined the place.

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42
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American General Center, 2929 Allen Pkwy, Houston, TX 77019, USA
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29.76068,-95.39759
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