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Originally Posted by Boisebro
gee, that austin skyline hasn't changed at all!
i remember when the Bank of America Center was the tallest building in Austin back in 1981. |
Yep. That 1987 photo was also showing the three new high rises that had just finished construction that year. Two years before, three of those wouldn't have been there, and a 4th would have been halfway through construction. The remaining two, two hotels, are the Hyatt Regency from 1982, and the Radisson Plaza. The Radisson Plaza hotel was Austin's first waterfront high rise way back in 1965. The nearest high rises to it were 5 blocks away, and one of them is the black Bank of America Center. As you said, that building was our tallest in 1981. Today that building is our 17th tallest with at least 11 more that are proposed that will be taller than it is.