City Place I is a 38-story, 163.7 m (537 ft) skyscraper at 185 Asylum Street in Hartford, Connecticut. It is the tallest building in the state, tallest building in New England outside of Boston, and two meters taller than Travelers Tower, built in 1919. City Place I was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and completed in 1980. The majority of the building is office space, though there are various restaurant and retail establishments found on the lower floors.
The building was sold on April 2, 2012 to CommonWealth REIT, a real estate investment trust based in Newton, Massachusetts, for $99 million, by the original owner, CityPlace LLC. This price is approx. $112 per square foot.[5]
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- ^ "City Place I". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
- ^ "Emporis building ID 122585". Emporis. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015.
- ^ "City Place I". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ City Place I at Structurae
- ^ Associated Press (April 2, 2012). "Tallest building in Connecticut sold for $99 million". The Day. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2013.