This city center-including a retail center that houses three levels of shops and restaurants, two world-class hotels, a post office and a movie theater-connects 80. " is an 'eat-live-work-play-stay' complex, built in such a way that visitors never have to venture out into Cleveland's bitter winters," said Bin Complete with a pedestrian walkway that connects two major sports arenas, Quicken Loans Arena, home of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians, Tower City Center is virtually a city in and of itself. The entire complex, known as Tower City Center, begins in Public Square and stretches to the banks of the Cuyahoga River, and is one of the largest mixed-use developments in the world. The Tower itself was originally built to serve as an office building atop the Cleveland Union Terminal rail station during the skyscraper boom of the 1920s and 1930s-but that is only the tip of the neoclassical iceberg. "It's everyone's reference point for downtown Cleveland" "Being a local guy, the Terminal Tower has had a very significant impact on me," said Stephen Bir, CPiVI Candidate and general manager of Forest City Commercial Management, Inc. The Terminal Tower Observation Deck is something of a hidden gem but absolutely worth checking out the next time you’re in the area. The 52-story, Beaux Arts-style tower-with steel-reinforced caissons descending 250 feet deep, a city center spanning 34 acres wide and air rights ascending to the heavens-is a ubiquitous compass for residents and visitors alike. The Terminal Tower, originally known as the Cleveland Union Terminal, was the second-tallest building in the world until 1964-dwarfed only by the 85-story Empire State building in New York.
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