1400 Smith Street facts for kids
Quick facts for kids 1400 Smith Street |
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Location | 1400 Smith Street Houston, Texas United States |
| Coordinates | 29°45′20″N 95°22′19″W / 29.75554°N 95.37182°W |
| Completed | 1983 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 691 ft (211 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 50 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Bob Fillpot |
1400 Smith Street is a very tall building, also known as a skyscraper, located in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It stands at 691 feet (about 210 meters) high. This building has 50 floors and is one of the tallest buildings in Houston, ranking as the 11th tallest in the city.
The building was designed by an architecture company called Lloyd Jones Brewer and Associates. It was finished in 1983. This large office tower, which has 1,200,000 square feet of space, is connected to Houston's special underground tunnel system. This system links many of the big buildings downtown. 1400 Smith Street used to be called Four Allen Center.
History of 1400 Smith Street
This skyscraper was once the main office for a company called Enron. Enron was a very large energy trading company in the 1990s. Later, it became well-known because of serious financial problems it faced in 2001.
Before Enron moved to Houston in 1985, the building was known as Four Allen Center. Enron built another similar building nearby, at 1500 Louisiana Street. These two buildings were connected by a cool circular skywalk.
Changes in Ownership
In 2006, a company named Brookfield Properties bought the 1,200,000 square foot building. They paid $120 million for it. At the same time, Brookfield announced that Chevron USA would rent the entire building. Brookfield owned the building together with another company called The Blackstone Group.
By 2006, these two companies together owned a lot of office space in Downtown Houston. They had 7,400,000 square feet of office space, making them the biggest office owners in the central part of the city.
Chevron Buys the Building
Starting in 2006, Chevron rented all the space in the building. In 2011, Brookfield Properties, who owned the building, started looking for someone to buy it. In June 2011, Chevron decided to buy the building from Brookfield for $340 million. Brookfield confirmed that Chevron had bought it on June 24, 2011. If Chevron had not bought the building, Brookfield would have put it up for sale to other companies.
