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Calpine Center

Skyscraper located in Houston Texas

Field	Value
name	Calpine Center
image	Calpine building houston tx-corner of texas milam.jpg
caption	Calpine building, corner of Milam St. and Texas St.
location	717 Texas Street, Houston, Texas
coordinates
completion_date	2003
opening	November 10, 2003
building_type	Office
roof	453 ft
floor_count	33
floor_area	791135 ft2

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. The building has the world headquarters of Calpine Corporation. 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. 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.

History

Originally Calpine intended to lease 300000 sqft of space. By February 2003 Calpine announced that it would sublease some of the space to other firms. The Calpine Center was scheduled for completion at the end of 2003. In July 2003 the space was 82% booked for occupation. Calpine and Burlington Resources, another energy company, leased space in the building; each company agreed to lease 250000 sqft of space. In addition Jones Day agreed to lease over 50000 sqft. The building opened on Monday November 10, 2003. Other tenants that had occupied the building by its opening included Cheniere Energy Inc. and Hines's southwest region development office. In 2004 Avalon Advisors LP agreed to lease 9385 sqft of space in the building, bringing its occupancy level to 86%.

[[File:Calpine building houston tx-looking up.jpg	thumb	Tower, with [[Houston Chronicle]] building seen at lower right]]	[[File:Calpine building houston tx-street sign.jpg	thumb	Street sign detail]]	[[File:Calpine building houston tx-entrance.jpg	thumb	Main entrance on Texas St.]]

References

"717 Texas | Energy Star".
Bivins, Ralph. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2003_3675101 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.
"[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/11/10/daily7.html Calpine Center opens in downtown Houston]." ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Monday November 10, 2003. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.
"[http://www.calpine.com/about/contact.asp Contact] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-12-12 ." [[Calpine]]. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.)
Bivins, Ralph. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2003_3704259 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.
Sarnoff, Nancy. "[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/02/10/story7.html?q=Calpine%20Center Calpine to put portion of downtown skyscraper on sublease market]." ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Friday February 7, 2003. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.
Sarnoff, Nancy. "[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2004/03/01/daily27.html?q=Calpine%20Center New lease hikes Calpine Center occupancy]." ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Wednesday March 3, 2004. Retrieved on November 10, 2009.

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