Status Complete Completed 1969 Roof 262 ft (80 m) Opened 1969 Phone +1 316-261-5335 | Location Wichita, Kansas Opening 1969 Height 80 m Floors 26 | |
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Type commercial office, residential, restaurant Address 250 W Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67202, USA Similar Epic Center, Naftzger Memorial Park, Central Riverside Park, Wichita‑Sedgwick County Historical, Exploration Place Profiles | ||
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250 Douglas Place (also known as the Garvey Center) is a high-rise apartment community. It is the second tallest building in Wichita as well as in the state of Kansas.
From 1969 until 1989, it was the tallest building in Wichita, until the Epic Center was constructed. The edifice still has the highest number of floors of any building in the state.
In August 1976, Michael Soles, an unemployed welder from Sand Springs, Oklahoma, set up a sniper position on the roof of the Holiday Inn Plaza, as the building was then named. Over the course of an eleven-minute shooting spree, he killed 3 and wounded 6. The gunman was wounded by police and taken into custody.
The building appeared the 1976 film King Kung Fu (a low budget knock-off of King Kong).
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