The move is on.
On June 20th, Belz Enterprises packed up the
former Oak Court office in East Memphis and
headed Downtown. Belz, the first of many tenants
to move into the 15-story Tower at Peabody Place,
traded Memphis suburbia for the 13th, 14th and
15th floors of Downtown Memphis’s newest
Class A building in more than a decade. It is a
trend that is catching on fast as the area now
known as Peabody Place becomes the city’s
most desirable urban address.
In the upcoming weeks, other new Tower tenants
including JMGR Architects, Arthur Andersen,
Progressive Capital, Interstate Realty
Corporation, Less Getz & Lipman, and Harkavy
Shainberg Koslen & Kaplan will be doing the
same.
The entire cityscape has changed now that a new
modern edifice stands tall at the south end of
the city. The spandrel glass of The Tower allows
for contiguous and unobstructed views on all
sides of the building. Office space starts on the
seventh floor and promises views of the mighty
Mississippi River, the Hernando-DeSoto Bridge,
and the Main Street Mall, as well as Beale
Street, the Orpheum Theatre, and several miles
down the Union corridor.
With a foundation of precast concrete and a
polished granite base, The Tower is one of the
few buildings in Memphis to have a seismic
infrastructure. The glass towers at the four
corners of the building enhance the verticality
of the structure and are reminiscent of bay
windows. Marble, granite, and wood are used
throughout the lobby and public spaces and the
offices are comprised of brick and precast
concrete.
Providing more than 155,000 sq. ft. of luxury
office space to professional and business
tenants, The Tower offers high-speed elevator
systems to avoid traffic congestion, as well as a
revolutionary fire and life safety system and a
heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system with
ample controls so zone temperatures can be easily
adjusted. The offices have premium carpet,
concealed splice-grid ceiling systems and window
treatments.
RTKL of Baltimore, Md., and JMGR of Memphis were
the project architects and Jackson Person &
Associates Inc. was the civil and landscape
architect. The Tri-Tech Group of West Babylon,
N.Y., was the construction manager and
substructure and superstructure contracting work
was performed by Flintco, Inc. of Memphis.
Downtown Memphis is on the
move.
(Above) The Tower at Peabody Place
and parking tower.
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 (Above) An inlaid marble starburst
welcomes tenants to the Tower Lobby. Cosmic
Man (below) and Earthly Man,
paintings by Olga Porumbaru adorn the walls of
the two-story lobby.
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