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José Marques

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Queen City Square Progress Update: Celebrating the Queen City’s New Crown

Keystone section of tiara will be put into place during event on July 13

CINCINNATI — July 8, 2010

  • What: Topping out of the tiara of Great American Tower at Queen City Square.
  • When: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
  • Time: 11 a.m. – Event begins atop the garage at Queen City Square (Last piece of the tiara expected to be lifted around 11:30 a.m.)*
  • Where: The top floor of the Queen City Square garage at Fourth and Sycamore streets

    (This is an invitation-only event. Members of the media are welcome. Please enter the Fourth Street garage entrance directly across the street from Christ Church Cathedral by foot.)

The tiara is a self-supporting arched structure made up of a series of nine interconnected arches that form the larger arched tiara shape. Each side has four smaller interconnected arched elements. The first piece was placed atop the structure April 21. Overall, 505 individual pieces held together by 2200 specialized bolts form the tiara. Once completed on July 13, the tiara will be 13 stories tall. Key facts about the tiara:

  • Total weight of the tiara: 300 tons of steel
  • Total weight of the two concrete bases (concrete and reinforced steel): 685 tons
  • Total height of the tiara: 130 feet
  • Total length of the tiara base: 150 feet
  • Total width of the tiara at the widest point: 90 feet

Background Information
Queen City Square – comprising the existing 303 Broadway and Great American Tower in downtown Cincinnati – is a development of Eagle Realty Group, a member of Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) and is co-sponsored by Eagle Realty Group’s funding partners, the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority and the City of Cincinnati. Construction is the responsibility of Turner Construction. Great American Tower at Queen City Square, the second phase of the development, is located on Sycamore Street between Third and Fourth streets. It has three major components: a 1,600-car parking garage on 11 levels; an 800,000 sq. ft., 33-level office tower above a portion of the garage; and a public pedestrian/walking area with retail space. The tower is adjacent and will be connected to 303 Broadway – an office building and the first phase of Queen City Square developed by Eagle Realty Group in 2006 – that houses some Western & Southern businesses. 303 Broadway has about 188,500 sq. ft. of office space and a 650-car parking garage. In its entirety, the Queen City Square complex has more than 1 million square feet of office and retail space and more than 2,200 parking spaces, and it required a total investment of about $400 million from Western & Southern.

*This is a weather dependent event.