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Frost Bank Tower, the Glossary

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Bank company headquarters in the United States
Office buildings completed in 2004

Amenity

In property and land use planning, amenity (lat. amoenitās “pleasantness, delightfulness”) is something considered to benefit a location, contribute to its enjoyment, and thereby increase its value.

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The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. The distribution of the following The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and USA TODAY international and national news, but also incorporates strong Central Texas coverage, especially in political reporting.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Business Wire

Business Wire is an American company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences.

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Christian cross

The Christian cross, seen as a representation of the crucifixion of Jesus on a large wooden cross, is a symbol of Christianity.

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City block

A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.

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Coffeehouse

A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino.

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Concierge

A concierge is an employee of a multi-tenant building, such as a hotel or apartment building, who receives guests.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Congress Avenue Historic District

Congress Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Austin, Texas.

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Cousins Properties

Cousins Properties Incorporated is a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in office buildings in Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin, Phoenix, Tampa, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Delicatessen

Traditionally, a delicatessen or deli is a grocery that sells a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods.

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Downtown Austin

Downtown Austin is the central business district of Austin, Texas, United States.

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Dry cleaning

Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a solvent other than water.

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Early 2000s recession

The early 2000s recession was a major decline in economic activity which mainly occurred in developed countries.

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Emporis

Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.

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EQ Office

EQ Office is a real estate investment company that owns 80 office properties comprising 40 million square feet.

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Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership.

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Fairmont Austin

The Fairmont Austin is a 37-story hotel located on 101 Red River St, in Downtown Austin, Texas.

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Frost Bank

Frost Bank is an American bank based in San Antonio that is chartered in Texas, with 155 branches and 1,700 automated teller machines in the state.

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Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod, turf-cutting, or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project.

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Health club

A health club (also known as a fitness club, fitness center, health spa, weight room and commonly referred to as a gym) is a place that houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise.

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Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space.

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HKS, Inc.

HKS, Inc. is an American international architecture firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas (US).

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.

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Insulated glazing

Insulating glass (IG) consists of two or more glass window panes separated by a space to reduce heat transfer across a part of the building envelope.

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International Association of Lighting Designers

The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) is a learned society of architectural lighting designers founded in 1969 and based in Chicago.

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Joint venture

A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.

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Keep Austin Weird

Keep Austin Weird is the slogan adopted by the Austin Independent Business Alliance to promote small businesses in Austin, Texas.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of plants known as cedar

Cedar is part of the English common name of many trees and other plants, particularly those of the genus Cedrus.

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List of tallest buildings in Austin, Texas

The city of Austin, the state capital of Texas, is the 10th most populous city in the United States and the central hub of the Greater Austin metropolitan statistical area.

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Logo

A logo (abbreviation of logotype) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.

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McCormick & Schmick's

McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants Inc. is an American seafood restaurant chain, formerly based in Portland, Oregon.

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Mechanical floor

A mechanical floor, mechanical penthouse, mechanical layer or mechanical level is a story of a high-rise building that is dedicated to mechanical and electronics equipment.

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Merrill (company)

Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America.

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Mexic-Arte Museum

Mexic-Arte Museum is a fine arts museum in Austin, Texas.

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Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Multistorey car park

A multistorey car park (Commonwealth English) or parking garage (American English), also called a multistorey, parking building, parking structure, parkade (mainly Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck, or indoor parking, is a building designed for car, motorcycle, and bicycle parking in which parking takes place on more than one floor or level.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Office

An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization.

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One American Center

600 Congress (formerly known as One American Center) is a high-rise office building located at the northwest corner of West 6th Street and Congress Avenue in the Financial District of Downtown Austin, the state capital of Texas.

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Parkway Properties

Parkway Properties, Inc. was a real estate investment trust that invested in office buildings in the Sun Belt.

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PIMCO

Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC is an American investment management firm focusing on active fixed income management worldwide.

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Postmodern architecture

Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Sixth Street (Austin, Texas)

Sixth Street is a historic street and entertainment district in Austin, Texas, located within the city's urban core in downtown Austin.

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Superstructure

A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.

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Take-out

Take-out or takeout is a prepared meal or other food items, purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas Capitol View Corridors

The Capitol View Corridors are a series of legal restrictions on construction in Austin, Texas, aimed at preserving protected views of the Texas State Capitol from various points around the city.

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The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate team representing the University of Texas at Austin (variously Texas or UT) in the sport of American football.

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The Austonian

The Austonian is a residential skyscraper in Downtown Austin, Texas, USA.

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The Independent (Austin, Texas)

The Independent is a completed residential skyscraper in Austin, Texas.

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Thomas Properties Group

Thomas Properties Group was a real estate investment trust based in City National Plaza in Los Angeles, California.

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Topping out

In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed atop a structure during its construction.

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Tower block

A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.

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Tower of the Americas

The Tower of the Americas is a observation tower-restaurant located in the Hemisfair district in the southeastern portion of Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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The USC Trojans football program represents University of Southern California in the sport of American football.

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Bank company headquarters in the United States

Office buildings completed in 2004

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