Bank One Building

Tucson, Arizona's first sky scraper was the Bank One Building located downtown at 2 East Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona. Now known as the Chase Tower the facility is Arizona's tallest building. It was built during 1972 and stands four hundred and eighty-three feet high. The Valley National Bank was the reason the building was originally built.

In 1994 Bank One merged with Valley National and then in 2005 it merged with Chase. The name of the building was changed during December of 2005. The 38th floor is the highest floor that can be occupied although the building is forty stories tall. The 39th floor's observation area was closed when construction and redevelopment were done on the higher floors.

The Bank One Building can be entered through an underground retail/restaurant with a good deal of distance from the streets surrounding it. Ellerbe Becket formerly Welton Becket and Associates based in Los-Angeles designed the building along with a number of local associates. When the tower was completed it was beginning of downtown Phoenix's being newly invested in. The trend lasted until the real estate crash of 1989 lead to the savings and loan crisis. The building was sold for almost $167 million during March of 2007.