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Five decades
of Dallas skyscrapers Year built
By STEVE BROWN By LAURIE JOSEPH 1960
Real Estate Editor Staff Artist
stevebrown@dallasnews.com ljoseph@dallasnews.com
with 45 floors is on the way. Here are the 1970 Bank 52 stories
1965
Tower 50 stories
1965
1990
7 Energy Plaza 8 Ross Tower
49 stories 45 stories
1983 1984
2000
2 Elm
6
5 Main
Amli Fountain 15 Pacific 1 12
Place 45 stories 4
opens 2019 10
SOURCE: Dallas Morning News files
The bottom line
There were huge egos While I occasionally hear a rumor about Its doubtful that Dallas will return
attached to huge projects in another skyscraper downtown, I tend to to the skyscraper boom days of the
the 80s. They werent building believe those days are generally over. The 80s. But demand for luxury
based on need. ability to pre-lease and finance high-rise residential is driving a few
an office building with projects.
Lance Josal, 60, 70 or more floors is a
chairman, thing of the past. Steve Brown, real
CallisonRTKL estate editor,
John Crawford, vice The Dallas Morning
chairman, Downtown News
Dallas Inc.