The Scripps Center is a high-rise office building located at 312 Walnut Street at the corner of 3rd Street in the Central Business District of Cincinnati, Ohio.[3] At the height of 468.01 feet (142.65 m), with 35 stories, it is the fourth tallest building in the city, and the tallest added between the building of the Carew Tower in 1931 and the opening of the Great American Tower at Queen City Square – the tallest building in Cincinnati – in 2011. It was completed in 1990,[1] and includes 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of office space.[4]
The building was designed by Houston architects Hoover & Furr; Glaser & Associates was architect of record.[1] It was developed by Duke Realty and Manuel D. Mayerson (1922-2012),[5] whose family continue to own the property,[6][4] and was constructed by developer Daniel C. Staton of Duke Realty Corporation.[3][1][7]
The headquarters of the E. W. Scripps Company is located in the Scripps Center, and it also serves as the 'studio' building for regulatory purposes for the stations of Ion Media (acquired by Scripps in early 2021), which are otherwise completely automated.[8] Though WCPO-TV (channel 9) is owned by Scripps, it maintains its own studios in the Mount Adams to the northeast of Scripps Center. The building is designed to look like a lighthouse, tying in with the company's logo, which in turn is based on the Scripps corporate motto -- "Give light and the people will find their own way."[citation needed]
Completado justo antes de la Serie Mundial de 1990 , se montaron cámaras en el techo que proporcionaban vistas aéreas del estadio de la victoria del equipo local. [1] Durante el Juego de Estrellas de las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol de 2015 disputado en Cincinnati, el exterior superior del Centro Scripps estaba decorado con un sombrero y un bigote gigantescos, dándole la apariencia de un jugador de los Cincinnati Redlegs del siglo XIX. [9] A pesar del apoyo público para mantener las decoraciones de forma permanente, el bigote y el sombrero fueron eliminados después del juego. [10] Se montaron nuevamente cámaras de televisión en el techo del edificio para proporcionar vistas aéreas del juego. [ cita necesaria ]
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