New tower to help show Midland as the ‘Oil Capital of America’
Energy Related Properties officially announced Energy Tower at City Center today during a press conference at Centennial Plaza, the future site of the proposed City Center.
The tower will be 53 stories with one underground retail floor and five basement parking floors, effectively making a total of 59 floors, according to the fact sheet given to the press.
Bill Meyer, a partner with Energy Related Properties, said during the conference the building is a “celebration of resuscitation.”
“Part of this is that we would rename, sort of, our logo and call Midland ‘the Oil Capital of America’ because it is,” Meyer. “It really is.
More at http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_3d45e4f6-9000-11e2-ad2a-0019bb2963f4.html .
[font color=green]Fifty-three stories for a building in Midland? The tallest building there is only 24 stories. It seems like there will be a glut of office space on the market.[/font] 
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are completely empty and have been for years.
But that's Midland for ya - image triumphs over all.
(Now if you detected a bit of Odessa smirk there, you did.) 
I wasn't aware of the real estate market in Midland, but a building of that size in a city of about 115,000 people does seem a bit monumental. They should revise the blueprints and build it in the shape of a phallus since it was home of George W. Bush and everyone knows how much he screwed the state and the nation (oh yeah, I did type that)!
