Shipt Tower Explained

Shipt Tower
Location:420 Twentieth Street North Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Coordinates:33.5176°N -86.8083°W
Status:Completed
Opening:1986
Building Type:Class A Office Building
Antenna Spire:454feet
Floor Count:34
Floor Area:550994square feet[1]
Architect:Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Giattina, Fisher & Aycock
Structural Engineer:MBA Structural Engineers, Inc.
Main Contractor:Brice Building Company
Owner:Barry Companies

The Shipt Tower is a 34-story, 454feet tall office building in Birmingham, Alabama. Built in 1986 as the corporate headquarters for SouthTrust Corporation, the building was known as the SouthTrust Tower until 2005, when SouthTrust completed its merger with Wachovia and it became the Wachovia Tower. It became the Wells Fargo Tower in September 2010 after Wells Fargo completed its purchase of Wachovia and a new logo was placed atop the building. Shipt, a local start-up and subsidiary of the Target Corporation announced in January 2019 that it would become the anchor tenant of the building in 2020. The Tower was rebranded as the Shipt Tower[2] on May 23, 2020, when corporate signage was placed atop the tower.[3]

History

The building was developed by Johnston-Rast & Hays and designed by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Giattina, Fisher & Aycock.[4] Brice Building Company was the contractor for the project. It displaced the First National Bank Building in Mobile as the tallest building in Alabama and held that distinction until 2006, when the RSA Battle House Tower in Mobile surpassed it.[5]

Today, the building's largest tenant is law firm Burr & Forman. It is also a regional headquarters for Wells Fargo, the second largest tenant, and home to the Birmingham office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz and Deloitte.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wells Fargo Tower. Skyscraper Center. CTBUH. 2017-09-05.
  2. Web site: Shipt taking over Wells Fargo Tower in downtown Birmingham. WVTM 13 Digital. Jan 7, 2019. WVTM. Jul 11, 2021.
  3. Web site: Shipt logo tops Birmingham's tallest building. May 26, 2020. Jul 11, 2021.
  4. Web site: Wells Fargo Tower, Birmingham 125536 EMPORIS. https://web.archive.org/web/20150221055926/http://www.emporis.com/buildings/125536/wells-fargo-tower-birmingham-al-usa. dead. February 21, 2015. GmbH. Emporis. Emporis. 2017-06-23.
  5. News: Andrew. Kilpatrick. With one floor to go, SouthTrust Tower offers a view from the top of Alabama. Birmingham Post-Herald. September 25, 1985. August 3, 2022. Newspapers.com.