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Queen City Square Progress Update
Ceremonial Ribbon Cutting Set for 1:11 p.m. on 1/11/11
CINCINNATI – January 7, 2011 – The ceremonial ribbon cutting for Great American Tower, and official welcoming of American Financial Group as the tower’s first tenant, will take place on January 11, 2011 at 1:11 p.m. The event will take place within the dramatic promenade within the building.
The invitation-only event marks another important milestone for Great American Tower at Queen City Square, whose construction began in mid-2008. The new tallest building in Cincinnati is nearing completion, with American Financial Group starting to move in and Frost Brown Todd scheduled to move in later in 2011. More than 80 percent of office space in the tower is leased. Negotiations to lease the remaining office and retail space are ongoing.
Interesting facts about Great American Tower at Queen City Square:
- Great American Tower at Queen City Square is now Cincinnati’s tallest building at 665 feet.
- There are 28 elevators in the tower (including garage and service elevators).
- There are about 15,000 square feet of marble and 22,000 square feet of granite imported from around the world being used on the walls and floors of the lobbies and promenade.
- Total weight of the stone being used on the walls and floors of the lobbies and promenade will be more than 200 tons.
- 5,800 tons of structural steel (skeleton of building)
- 685 tons of concrete and reinforced steel for the base of the tiara
- 300 tons of steel for the tiara
- 5,000 tons of reinforcing steel (steel used to reinforce concrete)
- 63,000 cubic yards of concrete
- 273 miles of electrical wire
Background Information
The architecturally distinctive Great American Tower at Queen City Square – named after its lead tenant Great American Insurance – is the second phase of an office, parking and retail complex located on Sycamore Street between Third and Fourth streets. The project has three major components: a 1,600-car parking garage on 11 levels; an 800,000 sq. ft., 33-level office tower above a portion of the garage; and a interior pedestrian promenade with retail space. The tower is adjacent and connected to the existing 303 Broadway, the first phase of Queen City Square. In its entirety, the Queen City Square complex contains more than 1 million square feet of office and retail space and 2,200 parking spaces, and required a total investment of about $400 million from Western & Southern.
Queen City Square is a development of Eagle Realty Group, a member of Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern), and is co-sponsored by Eagle Realty Group’s funding partners, the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority and the City of Cincinnati. Construction is the responsibility of Turner Construction.