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Credit Lyonnais Building

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Type
  
Office

Owner
  
Paramount Group

Floor count
  
45

Floors
  
46

Architecture firm
  
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon

Completed
  
1964

Roof
  
609 ft (186 m)

Height
  
186 m

Opened
  
1964

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Location
  
1301 6th Avenue, New York City, NY 10019, USA

Similar
  
Home Insurance Plaza, Random House Tower, 750 Seventh Avenue, The Orion, Paramount Plaza

Crédit Lyonnais Building (also known as the Crédit Agricole CIB Building or earlier known as the J.C. Penney Building) is a 609 ft (186m) tall skyscraper located at 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York (between West 52nd and West 53rd Streets).

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Map of Calyon Building, New York, NY 10019, USA

Development & construction

It was developed by Uris Buildings Corporation and was completed in 1964 and has 45 floors. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates designed the building, which is the 87th tallest in New York City.

History

It is named for the Calyon Corporation which resulted from the merger of Crédit Agricole Indosuez and the corporate and investment banking division of the Crédit Lyonnais corporation as a result of the takeover of the latest by Crédit Agricole S.A. in 2002. Calyon was since renamed Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank in 2010. It used to serve as the headquarters of PricewaterhouseCoopers before they moved to 300 Madison Avenue. It is now Credit Agricole CIB's US headquarters.

The building's other tenants include public accounting firm CohnReznick, the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Barclays.

At one time RJR Nabisco had its headquarters in the building. After RJR Nabisco was separated, Nabisco Group Holdings Corp. had its headquarters in Calyon.

References

Credit Lyonnais Building Wikipedia