Ameritrust Tower 1997
In 1990, Richard Jacobs with the success of the then Society Center now Key Tower was under construction, Jacobs proposed another tower on Cleveland's Public Square. The Tower would have been owned by the Ameritrust Corporation. They budgeted about $500,000,000 dollars for the project. The site would have been on Public Square.
The Architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox or KPF of New York City would have designed the new Ameritrust Tower. Coincidentally, KPF would have had designed the Cuyahoga County Administration Building which would have built at the old Ameritrust Tower (1971) site.
In 1992, Ameritrust merged with Society Bank (now KeyBank), obviating the need for the Ameritrust Tower.
Had the Ameritrust Tower had been built, The Tower would have had a curved glass curtain wall, a Hyatt Hotel, and high class shopping with names like Giorgio Armani and Versace as anchor tenants.
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