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Park Tower (formerly known as the Lykes Building) is a skyscraper located in downtown Tampa, Florida. It is Tampa's first high-rise tower. At the time of its completion in November 1973, it was the tallest in Florida, and is currently sixth-tallest in Tampa, at 458 feet (36 stories). It was the tallest building in Tampa until One Tampa City Center was built in 1981.
Park Tower is located in the heart of downtown Tampa directly across from The Tampa Riverwalk & Hillsborough River; Curtis Hixon and Gaslight Parks; the Glazer Children's Museum and the Tampa Museum of Art. It is within walking distance of the Tampa Convention Center, University of Tampa, and the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.
In 2016 the tower was purchased by a joint venture consisting of affiliates of NYSE listed City Office REIT (NYSE: CIO), Feldman Equities LLC, and Tower Realty Partners for $79.75 million. The group completed a multi-million-dollar renovation in 2019. The most significant change at Park Tower is the modernization of the office building's façade by painting the exterior a lighter color and upgrading the main entrance. The building's amenities were upgraded with a modern lobby and the addition of Buddy Brew Coffee café. The office tower's updated design was created by internationally renowned architect Gensler.
Since acquiring the property, new leases have been signed including the headquarters relocation of CAPTRUST Advisors, LLC, Buddy Brew Coffee and Continuity Logic, LLC. Anchor tenants include BB&T, United States Department of Justice – US Attorney's Office, Level 3 Communications, and Lykes Insurance.
Park Tower is LEED EB Gold Certified and EPA Energy Star certified.
The tower's amenities include FedEx Office, U.S. Post Office, BB&T Bank, Grow Financial Credit Union, Pearl Salon, Nature's Table Café, a fitness center, conference room and a 6th-floor tenant lounge, lobby concierge and Buddy Brew Coffee.
Park Tower is the "Telco-Hotel" for the region, with a major telephony and internet presence.
Tenants with a major Point of Presence (POP's) and Central Offices (CO's, AKA Telephone Exchanges)
AT&T
Verizon Communications (formerly XO Communications, Frontier Communications, Verizon Business (MCI, UUNET, World Comm))
CenturyLink (formerly Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing)
Charter Spectrum (formerly Bright House Networks)
Crown Castle (formerly FPL FiberNet)
TW Telecom (formerly Time Warner Communications)
Windstream Communications (formerly Earthlink, ITC Deltacom, PAETEC, USLEC, NUVOX, and Florida Digital Networks)
Cogent Communications
FiberLight www.fiberlight.com/
Online Technology Exchange www.otxi.com/
Summit Broadband (formerly US Metropolitan Telecom) summit-broadband.com/
Tampa Internet Exchange tampix.com/ (located within the WOW Business Data Center)
WOW Business Services (Wide Open West, a carrier-neutral colocation data center formerly known as E Solutions Corporation).
The building has two underground 13.2kV electrical feeds from the utility power company, one of which is from the high-priority medical grid and multiple diverse entry points for fiber optic and other data cabling. Park Tower is home to a large underground Federal Reserve Vault. The building also features video-enhanced 24x7x365 on-site security.
When it was originally built, the tower was the home of The First National Bank of Tampa, later First National Bank of Florida (First Florida Corporation). Park Tower was also the headquarters of the Lykes Brothers Corporation. The tower was purchased by Sterling American Property of New York City for $27.4 million in 2006 and underwent its first restoration including newly renovated elevators, air conditioning, and replacement of much of the electrical distribution system. The building later became the downtown Tampa headquarters of Colonial Bank, now BB&T. BB&T's sign is still featured on the top of the building.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/128610/park-tower-tampa-fl-usa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Tower_(Tampa)
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Some things have changed more than others ;) (Antique phone booth - which houses the phone but the user speaks standing outside, from the turn of last century - next to contemporary bikes in everyday use today. They have evolved, too, but a lot less than phones?)
The River Rother at Woolbeding Bridge near Midhurst... about to burst its banks after seemingly endless rainstorms.
And Harvey is back in Flickr-land despite British Telecom's best efforts at keeping him off the interweb!
Scène champêtre prise inopinément lors d'une séance de photos destinées à la plaquette alpha des élèves de Télécom Bretagne. Le charme naturel des espaces verts à fauchage tardif s'exprime dans la douceur de la lumière du soir.
so this is the deal : on my first weekend with the photo club in Les Ardennes, Belgium, one of the members grabbed and held this up in the sky so we could capture it with suitable light;
it really looks like a satellite to me, don't you agree ?
A blue phone box in Leeds, a city in West Yorkshire.
AQL have converted 24 old British Telecom red phone boxes into mini WiFi hubs, they repainted them blue, as a partial tribute to Doctor Who's Tardis.
They broadcast a free WiFi signal powered by solar energy, and through a series of touch screens on the outside, are available for phone calls, video messaging and emergency phone calls too.
The old English name for the city of Leeds is Leodis, so these boxes have been given a suitably full acronym: Leeds Electronic Ordnance and Digital Information System, or LEODIS.
Dr Adam Beaumont, CEO of AQL commented: “The boxes will also allow members of the public to leave video blogs and soundbites of their memories of the area in past times. We won’t be putting the blue boxes in any other cities, as we want them to be a symbol of Leeds, we want them to become iconic.”
Information Source:
www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/07/leeds-is-invaded-b...
Former BT Office in College Street. It was closed during COVID and never reopened. Canon FD 28mm f/2.8
Poteaux low-cost assez récents déjà à terre.
Finalement, on peut faire l'analogie avec les employés de l'entreprise : low-cost et à terre.
Ici, l'entreprise prestataire qui est en bout de chaîne et qui donc ne prend pas juste une commission au passage mais n'a pas d'autre alternative que de faire réaliser le travail réellement, demande a un ouvrier seul (courageux et que j'ai vu ne pas ménager sa peine) de sortir un poteau télécoms cassé avec des outils archaïques et à n'en pas douter un salaire misérable et une considération inexistante.
Bienvenue dans la France du profit à tous les étages sauf au rez-de-chaussée!
Pour un système plus juste, il faudrait faire comme Edouard Leclerc en son temps : supprimer les intermédiaires qui se servent sans rien apporter de plus.
NB : Ici le sol est argileux, donc dur comme du béton quand il est sec. Ce qui était le cas ce jour là.
Two British Telecom Bedford HA vans displayed at Thorne's Park Wakefield. There are a number of detailed differences......can you spot them?
I am not 100% sure that the van on the right is a genuine ex-Telecom van
A 1982 Bedford mini van in British Telecom yellow, although the DVLA have this down as a blue van..... at 1256cc, the engine isn't the nippiest out there.
ADL Enviro 300 F15HOW seen at the Moore yard with its destinations already re-programmed for its new owners, Gwynfor Coaches. It will be re-registered back to original BX05FPV before it departs for North Wales.
In August 1983, Maidstone & District Bristol VRT/SL3/6LXB / ECW 5855 (BKE 855T) received an advertising livery for Telecom. Here 5855 is seen climbing Maidstone Road in Chatham whilst working local route 182 to Walderslade.