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The Citrus Center, originally known as the CNA Tower, is a commercial office building in Orlando, Florida, located at 255 South Orange Avenue. Topped out in December 1970 and completed in April 1971, it was the first modern skyskraper in Orlando. It is 281 feet and 19 stories tall, the first five stories of which are a parking structure (four totally enclosed and the fifth open save for parapet walls,) with an entrance lobby and some tenants on the first floor. There is an upper mechanical floor of 1 1/2 stories above Floor 19 but they are not counted as floors. The roof contains a large structure to house electrical power switching circuitry, seven elevator winches (six passenger and one freight) and window-washing equipment (a workers' cradle and davit) mounted on rails.
It became the tallest building in Orlando taking the crown from the First National Bank Building, and kept this crown for sixteen years until the Bank of America Center was built in 1987, but it was not eclipsed from view until the new Sun Bank Tower was built across the street in 1988. Originally it was decorated with large, dark-blue translucent letters spelling C N A along the four sides of its parapet top floor, which were illuminated at night in a light blue color, this was for years a feature of the Orlando skyline, visible for fifteen miles by road (and at least 50 miles from the Kennedy Space Center if from a high-enough vantage such as the VAB and 22 miles from the Citrus Tower in Clermont, it is also visible from the taller International Drive hotels and Lake Buena Vista and Disney World hotels.) The building contains 1,248 windows on Floors 6 through 19, and it actually has eight faces, the four corner faces being only two windows wide, which makes it an octagon.
The original cost of construction was $8 million. One worker was killed in its construction, an ironworker who fell to his death on the Orange Avenue side a month before the topping-out.
The 19th Floor is occupied by the Citrus Club, founded in 1971, also containing a restaurant and meeting facility, which originally counted as members the principals of many of Orlando's prominent and founding businesses.
The building is owned by Cousins Properties of Atlanta, Georgia.
It remains one of the city's tallest buildings.