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FirstBank Southwest Tower

Building in Texas, US

Field	Value
name	FirstBank Southwest Tower
former_names	SPS Tower
Team Bank building
Bank One Center
Chase Tower
Amarillo Tower
image	FirstBank Southwest Tower, SE corner, Amarillo, TX 2024-03-16.jpg
caption	The FirstBank Southwest Tower in downtown Amarillo.
map_type	USA Texas#USA
map_caption	Location in Texas##Location in United States
architectural_style	Modernism
address	600 South Tyler Street
location_town	Amarillo, Texas
location_country	United States
coordinates
completion_date	1971
height	374 ft
floor_count	31
embed	yes
name	American National Bank of Amarillo and SPS Tower
added	March 6, 2019
refnum	100003493

Team Bank building Bank One Center Chase Tower Amarillo Tower

FirstBank Southwest Tower is a 374 foot, 31-story building located in Amarillo, Texas, United States. Formerly known as SPS Tower, Bank One Center, Chase Tower, and Amarillo Tower, it is the tallest building in Amarillo and the West Texas region. The building used to be the home of the Amarillo branch of American National Bank. The building also housed the offices of the region's electric power service provider, Southwestern Public Service (which was later acquired by Xcel Energy).

The Tower has a striking resemblance to the One Financial Plaza Building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The First Bank Southwest Tower is only about three stories taller than its counterpart.

FirstBank Southwest Tower dominates the skyline of downtown Amarillo.

In October 2008, the West Texas A&M University letters were installed on the First Bank Southwest Tower as part of the agreement to have university classes there.

In 2018, Chase decided to close its downtown Amarillo branch in the building. By June 2018, FirstBank Southwest reached an agreement to locate a downtown branch there and receive naming rights on the building in the process. The FDIC approved the application by October 2018, for FirstBank Southwest to have a branch in the building, and the bank plans to be operational there by the middle of 2019. Work began in late March 2019 to place the letters for the logo sign for FirstBank Southwest at the top of the tower in three places. The process was scheduled to take around two weeks' time.

The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 6, 2019.

Tenants

Tenants at FirstBank Southwest Tower include FirstBank Southwest, Amarillo Globe-News, Cactus Feeders, Tower Fitness, Tower Cafe, and the Amarillo Club, a members-only dining facility.

Notes

References

"Chase Tower". CTBUH.
Cheryl Berzanskis. (2004-06-10). "Bank One Center to be renamed in Chase merger". Amarillo Globe-News.
"WT brands Chase Tower". amarillo.com.
Seymore, Jami (June 12, 2018), "[http://raycomgroup.worldnow.com/story/38395483/from-chase-tower-to-firstbank-southwest-tower-amarillo-landmark-to-get-new-tenant-and-new-name From Chase Tower to FirstBank Southwest Tower: Amarillo landmark to get new tenant and new name]", [[KFDA-TV]]/Raycom Media. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
Watkins, Matthew (June 11, 2018), "[https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/amarillo-tower-changing-name-to-firstbank-southwest-tower Amarillo Tower changing name to FirstBank Southwest Tower]", [[KVII]]. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
"[https://fbswdowntown.com/2018/10/09/lets-get-started/ Let's Get Started]", fbswdowntown.com, October 9, 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
Destiny Richards, "[http://www.newschannel10.com/2019/03/22/firstbank-southwest-sign-placement-begins-downtown FirstBank Southwest sign placement begins downtown]", [[KFDA-TV]], March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
Jami Seymore, "[http://www.newschannel10.com/story/38861836/making-a-move-cactus-feeders-moving-corporate-office-to-firstbank-southwest-tower-in-downtown-amarillo Making a move: Cactus Feeders moving corporate office to FirstBank Southwest Tower in downtown Amarillo]", [[KFDA-TV]], August 10, 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
"[https://buildout-production.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/905423/24884c318cb9066c565e35740cd4be07d5818056/doc.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DLease_Brochure-_MASTER.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAUY3P3SALVASRS5VE%2F20190323%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190323T042935Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Security-Token=FQoGZXIvYXdzEAIaDGyeK3wIriS0vLtQOiK3A80JbYDInrz3I5qLIgKXLYxfrz%2BK7Zg%2BmBgK9NHcmEF81uq2Mv2%2FrhrqEVK8yqsWU7vLUvFi%2BJGB%2Fkwltqsp7eFNpUjg%2BfGyLxgDSPhgsDLtnyycamqJ0up8GivnHiiMk11PYJBcqKqlxCMo0J9EWkn9GZaGZDFE1wS%2BehBX%2BgJwW%2B7mVvI0PXALg6xRI26%2FGONIdDNFQNQ5zHoNc00eHMFOH0Zxfw%2B%2F81vFRWLJtG1GniI0LTvXqSs2u0Rzl8m9fqfrOI26HwnB1l3KON4QkcBTG2fMiw5j73%2BxLGrixRKwJX9l%2FvMAzCSiOeHbQF29uY%2BvkBADahCMlK2b3XOrRoeC1aeFzUpAOySyJtUll6iJ9FA%2FLTwE4LyW4EFhmmwGTDzd337CTFy9yKrIeEaz5X0T2YQCrwtiwgzGog3zlbcStrL9ll07aKjLrI%2FM5nB0LwU6IrjhHHTI%2FJboXa8bp7Ix8lBeOu93XGqncWIArB8WKy%2FAnLIv2ANG17crzGAoVxfmvNCdMm4%2BXbY%2FSUPNv25dbdTnAuxwb2rxgtEhXbASClNySdIdcEJ2R1kDbZuD%2BYGw6nd5ZTAoqPfV5AU%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=8b5b1671f0429c1ff19279bd7d3a909b2463f2010be39c7f047592f82aae1682 FirstBank Southwest Tower (leasing information)]", Gaut Whittenburg Emerson. Retrieved 2019-03-23.

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