Calpine Center

Calpine Center
Calpine building, corner of Milam St. and Texas St.
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General information
TypeOffice
Location717 Texas Street, Houston, Texas
Coordinates29°45′42″N 95°21′51″W / 29.7616°N 95.3643°W / 29.7616; -95.3643
Completed2003
OpeningNovember 10, 2003
Height
Roof453 ft (138 m)
Technical details
Floor count33
Floor area791,135 sq ft (73,498.8 m2)[1]

The Calpine Center is a 453 ft (138m) tall postmodern skyscraper in Downtown Houston, Texas. The building has 33 floors of Class A office space.[2][3] The building has the world headquarters of Calpine Corporation.[4] Hines and Prime Asset Management jointly developed the building. The Houston office of HOK designed the building, and Turner Construction acted as the general contractor.[3] It is connected to the downtown tunnel system. Mark Russell of Studley, a real estate firm, said that the Calpine Center is more efficient than many of the tall office buildings built in Houston in the early 1980s.[5]

  1. ^ "717 Texas | Energy Star".
  2. ^ Bivins, Ralph. "SURVIVAL OF THE NEWEST / OCCUPANCY DOWNTOWN TUMBLING, BUT THREE TOWERS DEFY TREND." Houston Chronicle. Sunday July 27, 2003. Business 1. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Calpine Center opens in downtown Houston." Houston Business Journal. Monday November 10, 2003. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.
  4. ^ "Contact Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine." Calpine. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.
  5. ^ Bivins, Ralph. "New towers won't touch `ego buildings' of past." Houston Chronicle. Sunday November 2, 2003. Business 8. Correction published on November 4, 2003. Retrieved on December 1, 2009.