It's happening in cities across the US: an iconic but aging office tower that has a lot of vacant space will be converted into a mixed-use residential building in an adaptive re-use project.
In this case, the 50-story-building scheduled for a makeover was the second tallest building in Dallas when it was built in 1982 and known as the Thanksgiving Tower due to its location on the opposite side of Elm Street from Thanks-Giving Square in Big D.
In 2020, the building—one of the first glass-sheathed office towers to go up in Dallas and now the eighth-tallest building in the rapidly expanding Dallas skyline—was renamed Santander Tower for the bank that it is its anchor tenant.
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