Electra Tower, Office tower in Tel Aviv, Israel
Electra Tower is a 45-floor office skyscraper on Yigal Allon Street in Tel Aviv, completed in January 2011 and rising 165 meters. It was designed by Moore Yaski Sivan Architects and contains 54,000 square meters of office space plus about 1,200 parking spaces. The building was formerly called Amkor Tower and Elco Tower.
The tower was initiated by Ampa Real Estate in the early 2000s on the site of the Amkor refrigerator factory. A 2001 plan approved buildings up to 50 floors on Yigal Allon Street, and the original design reached 65 floors and 236 meters. The project was frozen in 2004 due to low office demand, then revived in 2007 with Electra Real Estate; 20 floors were removed and the name changed from Amkor to Elco, then Electra. Construction by Yaski Mor Sivan Architects took about 40 months and was completed in February 2011.
The tower's name changed three times: Amkor Tower, then Elco Tower, then Electra Tower, before settling on Ampa Tower. Google Israel rents 25 floors, about 8,000 m2, including a 1,500 m2 business incubator campus opened in December 2012. Chef Haim Cohen's restaurant Yafo-Tel Aviv opened on the ground floor in November 2011.
The tower stands on Yigal Allon Street east of the Ayalon freeway, and its 1,200-space parking serves the wider Ampa Business Center complex. It is an office building, not open to the public, so visitors can only see it from the street. The chef Haim Cohen's restaurant opened on the ground floor in November 2011.
Google Israel rents 25 floors of the tower, about 8,000 m2, including a 1,500 m2 business incubator campus opened in December 2012. The tower was first called Amkor Tower, then Elco Tower and Electra Tower, before taking the name Ampa Tower.
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