Comerica Bank Tower, Postmodern skyscraper in downtown Dallas, United States.
Comerica Bank Tower is a 60-story postmodern skyscraper at 1717 Main Street in downtown Dallas, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee and completed in 1987. Its gray vertical piers alternate with recessed bands of blue glass, and the top steps outward in setbacks that carve a cross shape. The first five floors hold a vaulted banking hall with a skylight.
Construction began in 1985 on the block from Ervay to St. Paul, and the tower opened in 1987 as Momentum Place, the headquarters of MCorp Bank, which leased 600,000 square feet after leaving the Mercantile National Bank Building. MCorp collapsed soon after and was dissolved by Bank One; the building went into foreclosure in 1991 and again in 1995. Comerica announced its move to Dallas on March 6, 2007, chose 1717 Main Street that August, and executives began moving in that November. Slate Asset Management acquired it in 2024.
The tower's name changed with its lead tenant: it was Momentum Place, then Bank One Center and Chase Center, before Comerica announced its Dallas headquarters move on March 6, 2007 and took the name in November 2007. The stepped setbacks carve a cross from the top section, and glass sheets descend from the barrel vaults to street level.
The tower fills the block between Ervay and St. Paul at 1717 Main Street, in the Main Street District. It is a hub of the Dallas Pedestrian Network, with retail spaces below ground, and connects to the Elm Street Garage, giving tenants 1,530 parking spaces. A small restaurant extension was added along Main Street in 2009.
The tower's lower five floors hold a banking hall with a vaulted ceiling and skylight, a scaled-down version of Philip Johnson's first proposal. MCorp chairman Gene Bishop said the stolid granite and dark glass exterior was deliberate: "We wanted a banking building, not an office building." A small restaurant extension was added along Main Street in 2009.
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