One Canal Place, Skyscraper and hotel in Central Business District, New Orleans, US
One Canal Place is a 32-story, 440-foot tower at 365 Canal Street. Its lower three levels hold The Shops at Canal Place, a mall with a Saks Fifth Avenue, a food court and about 45 retailers; the office floors above offer more than 650,000 leaseable square feet. The tower is attached to the Westin New Orleans Canal Place hotel and shares a parking garage with it.
The land now occupied by One Canal Place was often covered by the Mississippi before levees were built; in the 1720s a windmill stood near today's Canal Street and North Peters Street. By the 20th century the American Sugar Refinery operated here. Its 19th-century warehouses and Crossman Street were cleared for the complex, whose office tower, Phase 1, was completed in 1979; the Saks Fifth Avenue store and Westin hotel followed in 1982-83 as Phase 2.
The mall's name comes from Canal Street, the wide artery that separates the Central Business District from the French Quarter. Its 45-odd tenants, including Anthropologie, Brooks Brothers, Tory Burch, Michael Kors, Tiffany & Co. and Morton's The Steakhouse, sit below the offices; Louis Vuitton opened in 2019. After Hurricane Katrina, a fire badly damaged the Saks store, but the mall reopened in February 2006 and a remodeled Saks followed in November.
The complex sits at 365 Canal Street, beside the Mississippi River and across the street from Harrah's Casino, with the French Quarter a short walk away. Parking is shared with the Westin hotel, and a health club serves the office tower. The Shops at Canal Place occupy the lower three levels, with a food court among the retailers.
The Westin's rooftop pool sits on the 29th floor, and the hotel's River 127' Restaurant takes its name from being 127 feet (39 m) above the Mississippi River. The name states the exact height above the water, a figure a guest can check against the view.
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